Often we want to capture happy moments to remember them always. People used to paint pictures, then invented cameras and printed their photos. Now everyone uses their smartphones. It’s quick and convenient, and the cameras on flagship phones are already as good as those on average cameras. But with this came the problem of how to catch the moment as quickly as possible. Very often something happens that requires your attention here and now, you may not have time to open the Camera app on your phone. Or it can be a situation where there will be no one to take your picture. In such cases, the voice control on your iPhone can help you.
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How to take a photo using Siri
Often you lose precious time to enter your password or to use Touch or Face ID. While you are doing this, the moment may have already passed. To avoid this, you can let Siri open the Camera app for you so that you can take the picture as quickly as possible. To do this, you need to :
- Open Settings on your iPhone
- Then go to the Siri & Search tab
- Turn on the Allow Siri When Locked option
- Lock your phone and say “Hey Siri.“, Siri should turn on
Be careful. Theoretically, someone can use this function to access information on your phone. Like your contacts and calendar, or send text messages for example. To minimize the chances of this happening, you should set Siri to only recognize your voice.
What to say to Siri
After you have activated Siri on your locked screen you can give her commands to control the camera on your phone. Here are examples of some of them :
- “Take a picture” to open the Camera app
- “Take a square photo” to immediately open the square photo format in your camera
- “Take a panoramic photo” to immediately open the ability to take panoramic photos
- “Take a video” to open the video function of your camera
- “Take Slo-Mo Video” to open the option to make a slow motion video
- You can combine almost any video and photo formats that your iPhone can make this way
How to take a photo using Shortcuts
Also, iPhones have a very handy Shortcuts app. With it, you can give your phone non-standard tasks and create interesting algorithms. You can also use it to set the command to turn on the camera with any phrase, such as “Say Cheese”:
- Go to the Shortcuts app
- Go to the “gallery” and type “say cheese“
- You can choose any text for your phrase
- Click “Add shortcut“
- Say “hey Siri, say cheese” or any of your phrases that you have programmed
- Your phone should automatically take a photo and save it to the gallery
How to take a photo using Apple Watch
If you are a fan of technology and Apple, you probably have Apple Watch. Today it is the most popular and technologically advanced watch in the world. With it, you can control your phone remotely, in particular the functions of your camera.
- Open the “Camera Remote” app on your watch
- Position your phone so that it is ready to take a picture
- Press the “Shutter” button on your watch
- After 3 seconds your phone takes a photo. You can decrease or eliminate the time before the photo
You can also control the flash, live photo, and more with your watch.
