iOS 26 Camera App: New Features and Design Changes

The Camera app received immoderate of the astir noticeable plan updates successful iOS 26, with Apple simplifying the interface to marque it easier to get to assorted controls. Most of what's caller focuses connected design, but determination are a mates different notable changes.

Liquid Glass Design

Like each of the ‌iOS 26‌ apps, the Camera app has adopted the Liquid Glass look. Buttons are much rounded and "float" implicit the inheritance of the app acknowledgment to a caller extent effect.


The country down the camera shutter and power buttons is simply a interaction much see-through than before, truthful you tin spot the areas extracurricular of your representation much clearly. There's besides nary barroom down the toggles to alteration focal length, truthful the interface looks a spot cleaner.

Two-Tab Layout

The navigation barroom astatine the bottommost of the Camera app has been overhauled successful ‌iOS 26‌. Rather than the enactment to swipe betwixt each of the photograph and video modes, determination are present conscionable 2 main options that you see: Photo and Video.


While it's lone the Photo and Video buttons that are visible, you tin really inactive swipe successful the aforesaid mode to get to the different options similar Portrait, Panorama, Slo-Mo, Cinematic, and more.

For multi-lens cameras, the tiny buttons to alteration focal magnitude are inactive successful the aforesaid position, and the buttons to presumption the photograph you conscionable snapped oregon alteration to the beforehand camera haven't changed location. The fastener to presumption photos is present circular alternatively of square, successful enactment with the Liquid Glass update, and Apple has shifted the controls down connected the display.

The Photo and Video buttons are beneath the shutter button, erstwhile they utilized to beryllium above. The shutter fastener itself nary longer has a agleam achromatic ringing astir it, with Apple alternatively opting for a much subtle Liquid Glass ring. Bezel size for the apical and bottommost bars hasn't changed.

Pop Out Menus

Some of the controls that utilized to beryllium located astatine the apical of the Camera app are present tucked wrong popular retired menus. When you prime a mode similar Photo, you tin past pat connected the Photo fastener to get much options.


The paper has a Liquid Glass plan and it offers ample buttons for accessing Flash, Live Photo settings, Timer, Exposure, Styles, Aspect, and Night Mode. Tapping 1 gives you further options for that setting. So if you pat Exposure, you'll get a slider wherever you tin rapidly set the vulnerability mounting earlier you instrumentality a photo.

In Video mode, you tin pat to entree Flash, Exposure, and Action. Most of the different modes besides person astatine slightest 1 enactment that's accessed done this caller menu. These paper options are besides accessible by tapping connected the paper icon astatine the apical close of the display.


There are inactive immoderate speedy entree buttons astatine the apical of the Photos app, truthful you tin swap to RAW mode, pat into Styles, oregon set flash and ‌Night Mode‌ settings without having to unfastened the menu. Context-specific settings similar the Macro mode toggle besides inactive popular up successful the aforesaid mode arsenic earlier erstwhile applicable.

There are toggles to spot the Flash, Live Photo and Action Mode indicators successful the Camera conception of the Settings app.

Remote AirPods Shutter

The AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4 tin beryllium utilized arsenic a camera shutter successful ‌iOS 26‌, truthful you tin instrumentality a photograph by pressing connected the stem of the AirPods. To get this to work, link your AirPods to your iPhone, unfastened the Camera app, and past property and clasp connected the AirPods stem.

You tin instrumentality a photograph utilizing this method, oregon proceed to clasp to commencement a video. When you're finished recording, property and clasp again to halt the video.

Using this diagnostic requires ‌iOS 26‌ and the caller AirPods firmware that accompanies ‌iOS 26‌. Using the AirPods arsenic a distant shutter fastener works with the Camera app and with third-party photograph apps.

Cleaning Warning

If your camera lens is dirty, your ‌iPhone‌ tin observe that it needs to beryllium cleaned and volition nonstop you a notification letting you cognize you should cleanable it.

Developer APIs

Developers person entree to a caller Cinematic mode API successful ‌iOS 26‌ that allows third-party apps to seizure Cinematic mode video, conscionable similar the built-in Camera app.


Cinematic mode supports signaling video with a shallow extent of tract and automatic absorption changes betwixt subjects. Apple uses rack absorption to rapidly swap the absorption from 1 taxable to another, for a movie-like signaling experience.

Apple is besides providing developers with an Audio Mix API for adjusting dependable aft a video is captured. Third-party video signaling apps tin connection the aforesaid Audio Mix controls that are disposable successful the Camera app. Options see In-Frame for reducing sounds and voices from sources extracurricular of the frame, Studio for reducing inheritance sounds and reverb, and Cinematic for putting voices into a front-facing way portion leaving biology noises successful surround, akin to movie audio.

Mac Accessibility

With macOS 26 and ‌iOS 26‌, your Mac tin link to your ‌iPhone‌ to usage your ‌iPhone‌'s Camera app arsenic a magnifying glass. A Magnifier connected Mac diagnostic uses the ‌iPhone‌'s zoom capabilities, with the ‌iPhone‌'s video provender showing up connected a connected Mac done Continuity Camera.

Apple showed a pupil with imaginativeness issues utilizing an ‌iPhone‌ to zoom successful connected a blackboard successful a assemblage class, with the provender coming done to her Mac truthful she could presumption what was going connected portion besides taking notes.

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We person a implicit iOS 26 roundup that covers each of the caller features that are disposable successful the update.
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