114 Chapter 7 : Photos, videos, and music
Camera

Tak e a pi ct ur e

Your phone comes with an easy-to-use 3-megapixel camera with an LED
flash. 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 phone, 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 .
2The camera is set to automatically determine if the flash is needed. If
you want to change the flash setting, tap to keep the flash on, and
tap again to keep the flash off.
3To take the picture in landscape view, turn your phone 90 degrees.
4Press Space or tap .
The picture you took is automatically saved in JPG format. Keep snapping
pictures, and then go to Photos to look at them and delete the ones you
don’t want.

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 have taken.
Photos

Look at pictures

To get pictures on the phone, you can do any of the following:
•Take a picture with your phone’s camera (see Tak e a pi ct ur e).
•Copy pictures from your computer (see Copy files between your phone
and your computer).
•Receive pictures as email attachments (see Open attachments).
•Receive pictures as part of a multimedia message (see Receive and view
text and multimedia messages).
TIP Press and hold Space to take pictures in continuous burst mode. Release
Space to stop taking pictures.
DID YOU KNOW?Your phone offers another way to “take a picture”: You can
save any currently displayed screen as a picture file (also known as a screenshot).
When the screen you want is open, press and hold Option + Sym + P. The picture
is saved to the Screen captures album in Photos, and you can work with it like any
other picture.