iPhone 15 & 15 Pro (Max): 15 AMAZING Camera Tricks!

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0:00 iPhone 15 & 15 Pro (Max) Camera Tricks
0:12 How to control your iPhone Camera with Siri / Voice Commands
0:57 How to take a photo with Siri / Voice Commands
1:25 How to start the Camera with the Action Button in a specific mode
1:58 The hidden features of the shutter button
2:38 How to create a gif from a burst
3:31 How to convert a Live Photo to a video
3:52 How to take the perfect portrait with the help of Live Photo
4:22 Hot to create a long exposure effect with Live Photo
4:49 How to use the drag & drop feature with Photos
5:27 How to create stickers/animated stickers from cut out photos
5:46 The best tricks for the iPhone Photos App
6:35 How to modify the shallow depth of field in portrait mode / cinematic video
7:31 How to start the camera in the last used mode
7:58 How to change the default focal length of the main lens
8:42 How to improve the image quality of your videos
9:53 How to make your selfies look correctly
10:24 How to shoot a Hyperlapse with your iPhone
10:50 How to use the look up feature

The camera of your iPhone 15 or 15 Pro  or Pro Max can do more than you would   think at first glance. That’s why today  I’m going to show you 15 very useful but   still little known camera tricks for  your iPhone. So let’s get started!

As you probably know, there are several  ways to launch your iPhone camera. For   example by pressing the camera icon on the  lockscreen, by swiping to the left on the   lockscreen or of course by pressing  the camera icon on the home screen.

1.What is often forgotten is that you  can also control your iPhone camera   with Siri and even without touching the iPhone. Hey Siri open camera. As you can see, Siri  now opens the camera app. Siri also knows  

Other camera commands like take a photo, take  a video or take a time lapse. As you can see,   Siri opens the camera app in all these cases. But  unlike you would expect, it only opens the app and  

Your iPhone will not take a photo or a video this  way. But that’s exactly what could be interesting.   You might want to mount your iPhone on a tripod  and take a selfie from a distance using Siri. 2. To get Siri to  

Take a photo directly, we need another trick.  You open the Shortcuts app – it should already   be pre-installed on your iPhone. Here at the  bottom right you open the Gallery. Here you   search for the shortcut “Say Cheese”. You just  add it. And now you can take a photo with Siri:  

Hey Siri “Say Cheese”. However, this only works if  your iPhone is unlocked. Also, the camera app must   not already be open. A very useful feature. It’s  just strange that Apple has hidden it so well. 3. And of course you can also set the Action  

Button on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max to open  the camera. What is more interesting, however,   is that you can use the Action Button to start  the camera in a very specific recording mode, for  

Example in video mode. So if you want to take a  photo, you still open the camera with the app icon   and if you want to take a quick video, with the  action button. To set this up, open the settings,  

Action Button, select Camera and then the mode in  which the app should open. As you can see, you can   use the action button to open not only the video  mode, but also the portrait mode or selfie mode. 4. The familiar shutter button also  

Has a number of interesting hidden features. If you tap it once, you will of course take   a photo. But if you tap and hold it, you take a  video. The video recording stops as soon as you   lift your finger. This is called QuickTake.  If you want to zoom in while recording,  

You just swipe your finger up, if you want to  zoom out, you swipe down. Interestingly, this   zoom feature is not available during normal video  recording. If you want to shoot a longer video,   simply drag the button to the right onto the lock.  Now you can also take single photos via the button  

On the right during the video recording.  If you drag the shutter button to the left,   your iPhone starts shooting a burst. In this case,  10 photos per second are taken in succession. 5. And that brings me to my  

Next trick – the Burst Mode and how to create gifs  with it. With the Burst Mode you will never miss   the right moment again. For this, as I said, just  drag the shutter button to the left. This mode  

Is especially good for fast action scenes where  timing is important. When you tap on your photos   after shooting, you can select the respective  burst shots and pick out the best photos via   Select. And the cool thing is, you can also create  a gif out of a burst. Again, this is done with the  

Help of a shortcut. So you open the Shortcuts  Gallery again and select the shortcut Convert   burst to gif. You add it. Now when you start this  shortcut, you can just select your last burst and  

Your iPhone will then create a gif from it. The  advantage of a Gif compared to a Livephoto is that   the Gif is compatible with other, non-Apple  devices. So you can send it to friends who   don’t have an iphone. A gif also has that special  look and is automatically repeated all the time.

6. But what if you   captured a really funny or interesting movement  using Live Photo, and you want to show it to your   friends who don’t have an iPhone. So what can you  do if a short video clip would be much cooler and  

More interesting than the single photo? Then  you simply select your LivePhoto, tap on the   three dots in the upper right corner and select  save as video. Now you can send the movement you   captured with LivePhoto as a video. And Livephoto can do much more.

7. As you probably know, it can be difficult to get   exactly the right moment, especially when taking  pictures of people. Sometimes the eyes are closed,   sometimes the smile is not perfect. One possible  solution would be to use the burst mode. But  

Also with LivePhoto you can easily solve this  problem. You select the LivePhoto you are not   completely satisfied with, tap on edit and then  on the LivePhoto icon in the lower left corner.   Now you can change the so-called KeyPhoto  and fix your problem. So it’s very simple. 8. And I want to  

Show you another useful trick using LivePhoto.  You can use LivePhotos to reproduce the effect   of a professional looking long exposure. This  is useful for example to capture the lights of   vehicles or running water. You simply take a Live  photo. You then select your photo and tap on the  

Live icon in the upper left corner. Now you can  add an effect to your Live Photo. Here you choose   Long Exposure and you have your long exposure.  To get the best result I recommend to hold your   iPhone as steady as possible. Optimally  you use your iPhone on a small tripod. 

I will put some links to good tripods  for your iPhone in the video description. 9. Earlier we   talked about sending photos or videos to your  friends. There’s a cool drag and drop feature   that might help you do that. You select a photo  in the Photos app, hold your finger on it and  

Drag it for example a bit downwards – now you  can select more photos with your other hand.   You always keep your finger on the photo. Now  you simply switch the app and can easily insert   the photos into a message. This also works  with the Notes app or other apps. Similarly,  

You can even cut out objects or subjects from  photos and transfer them to other apps. To do   this, open a photo and tap and hold on a  clearly delineated subject. Your iPhone   will automatically cut it out and you can  drag it to another app similar to before. 

And you can also create a sticker  from the cut-out subject. To do this,   simply select add sticker. But for the coolest  sticker effect, you need a Live Photo again.   If you have a Live Photo with a cool movement,  select the subject and create a sticker – and  

You have a new funny animated sticker that  you can use in the Messages app, for example. And since we’re in the Photos app. I want  to show you a few more quick tricks here.  Imagine you want to view a photo in the wrong  orientation and rotate your iPhone. Unfortunately,  

The photo now rotates with it and  the photo is displayed incorrectly   again. This can be solved easily. You tap  and hold the photo. Now you can rotate   your iPhone without the photo rotating with it. And cropping photos is now much faster – when you  

Look at a photo, simply zoom in with two fingers.  A crop feature now appears at the top right. If   you tap on it, you can adjust the crop even more  precisely and rotate the image if necessary. 

If you like to edit your photos in the Photos  app, you can easily copy your editing steps   and apply them to other photos. To do this,  tap on the three dots here in the top right   corner and select copy edits. Now open another  photo and choose Paste Edits from the same menu.

10. The portrait   mode is one of my favorite iPhone camera features  – unfortunately it doesn’t always work perfectly.   The edges may show artifacts or the effect  may look unnatural. You can easily fix this   problem if you still want to use the photo. You select the photo, and choose edit. Using  

The F-Stop here you can now adjust the  blurred background. The higher the value   the lower the effect and vice versa. If  you tap on portrait you can deactivate the   effect completely and have a normal photo. In  Cinematic Video mode it works exactly the same.

And it also works the other way round.  If you have taken a photo in normal photo   mode and you want to apply the portrait  effect to it, open the portrait menu at   the top left of the photo and activate  the portrait effect. Now you can adjust  

The effect again using the F-Stop. You can  also do this with a live photo – simply tap   on the live icon in the top left-hand corner  and activate the portrait effect. However,   this only works if your iPhone has recognized  a face or a person when taking the photo.

11. My next trick is quickly explained. If   you use the video mode more often than the photo  mode like I do, you can also set the camera app to   always start in the last used mode, for example  the video mode. You do this in the settings of  

The camera app via preserved settings and camera  mode. Now the camera will always start in the mode   that was last active, for example in video mode.  You can also use Creative Controls to activate   the last used filter when you restart the app. And in this context, I would like to show you  

Something else – the main camera of the  iphone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, that is,   the camera with a zoom factor of 1, has a focal  length of 24mm – which is relatively wide for a  

Standard lens. If you tap on the 1 once, the focal  length changes to 28mm and if you tap on it twice,   it changes to 35mm. All this happens without  any relevant loss of quality. And 35 mm, so 1.5,   is considered the most versatile focal  length in photography. It can therefore  

Make sense to always start the camera  with this focal length. To do this,   open the settings of the camera app and change  your default focal length here, for example to   1.5. Your app will now always open with this zoom  factor, but this only applies to the photo mode. 12. If you often shoot  

Videos with your iPhone and also transfer  them to your computer and edit them there,   you might have noticed that the videos  of your iPhone often show compression   artifacts. These are muddy areas in the image  that tend to appear especially when the image  

Has a lot of small details in the same color. For  example, many small branches or blades of grass.  These so-called compression artifacts occur  because the iPhone wants to keep the size of   the video file as small as possible and  therefore compresses it heavily. Now,  

If you use airdrop to transfer your video to your  computer and you have an older Mac or Windows PC,   the file will be compressed much more and even  more artifacts will appear. The video now looks  

Terrible. The same thing can happen if you import  the file into the Photos app and then export it   normally. So if you want to get the best video  quality even though you have an older computer,   here’s what you should do. Import the videos via  cable into the Photos app and then export them  

As unedited original. Or – if you do not  want to do without Airdrop, then go into   the settings of the Photos app and activate Keep  Originals – so you prevent your videos from being   converted and compressed even more and you get  a clearly better image quality for your videos. 13. Now that was  

Pretty technical. So here’s a tip or actually  two simple tips for the selfie fans. Often you   will extend your arm fully when taking  a selfie. It is quite awkward to press   the shutter button with the extended arm. In  such cases, you should use the volume buttons,  

Which have the same functionality as the shutter  button. But even more interesting is that your   photo will not look like in the preview. Rather,  you will get a mirrored result. This can be quite   confusing depending on the situation. You  can easily fix this problem as well. You  

Can do this in the settings of the camera under  Composition by activating Mirror Front Camera. 14. Did you   know that your iPhone 15 can not only  capture TimeLapses but also Hyperlapses,   a kind of TimeLapse with motion. This is very  simple. You open the TimeLapse mode and start  

A recording. Now you should hold your iPhone as  stable as possible, always at the same height and   move towards or around an object – preferably  in straight lines or at least uniformly. You   stop the recording and your iPhone stabilizes it  automatically. And there you have your hyperlapse.

15. And my next trick is also one of the   most useful – you just have to remember that your  iPhone can do it – the Look Up feature. Look up   has been significantly improved in iOs17. If you  have a photo of an animal, a plant or even food,  

You can either tap and lift or use the i icon  at the bottom center to look up what kind of   animal or plant it is and even more interesting  – if you see a good dish in a restaurant – take  

A photo and your iPhone will even suggest  recipes for that dish. This also works   with videos – just pause the playback of your  video. Try it out – it works surprisingly well. And that’s it with my 15 camera tricks. If you want to learn more about the  

Standard settings of your camera app I  recommend my detailed tutorials on the   photo and video settings. You can find links  to these tutorials in the video description. And if you found the video helpful or interesting  give me a like as feedback. There will be more  

Tips and tutorials for the iPhone 15 & 15  Pro. So stay tuned and see you next time!