Camera

Take a picture

Your smartphone comes with an easy-to-use, 5-megapixel camera. You can use the camera to take pictures, and then use the Photos app to view them and send them to your friends and family (see Share a picture). To add a personal touch to your smartphone, use your pictures as your wallpaper (see Save a picture as wallpaper) and as caller ID images (see Add a picture to a contact).

1Open Camera .

2To take the picture in landscape view, turn your smartphone 90 degrees.

3Slide out the keyboard and press Space or tap onscreen to take the picture.

TIP Press and hold Space to take pictures in continuous burst mode. Release Space to stop taking pictures. Continuous burst mode allows you to capture several images with a single action.

The picture you took is automatically saved in JPG format. You can keep snapping pictures, and then go to Photos to look at them and delete the ones you don’t want.

DID YOU KNOW? Your smartphone offers another way to “take a picture”: You can save any currently displayed screen as a picture file (also known as a screen capture or screenshot). To take a picture of the currently displayed screen, press and hold Option + Sym + P. The picture is saved in PNG format to the Screen captures album in Photos and is stored in the screencaptures folder of the USB drive. You can work with it like any other picture.

Review pictures

1After taking a picture, tap the thumbnail of the picture in the lower-left corner of the screen. This opens the picture in the Photo roll of the Photos application.

2Swipe left or right on the screen to view other pictures you took.

Photos

Look at pictures

To get pictures on the smartphone, you can do any of the following:

•Take a picture with your smartphone’s camera (see Take a picture).

•Copy pictures from your computer (see Copy files between your smartphone and your computer).

•Receive pictures as email attachments (see Open email attachments).

•Receive pictures as part of a multimedia message (see Receive and view text and multimedia messages).

•Copy a picture from a web page (see Copy a picture from a web page).

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