How to Use the Volume Buttons to Take Photos on Your iPhone: Rita's iDevice
Advice for July 20, 2020
Did you know you can use your iPhone's volume buttons to snap photos? Using
the iPhone volume buttons can make it easier to take a picture when holding
the iPhone at an awkward angle.
How to Take a Photo Using the iPhone Volume Buttons
1. Open the Camera app.
2. Select which Camera option you want to use. This is a "picker option"
where you can choose front facing camera, back facing, etc.
3. The volume buttons are the second (up) and third (down) buttons on the
left edge of your iPhone. When you're ready to take a photo (or start one of
the video options), press either the up or down button.
4. You can hold your phone upright (Portrait). Or you can hold your phone
sideways (Landscape).
You can take a picture on your iPhone by simply hitting either the volume up
or down button, instead of dragging your finger to find the "take picture
button".
This will reduce the picture getting blurred.
You can hold your iPhone in landscape mode, like a real point and shoot
camera, and click the Volume up or down buttons which are now located in the
upper right of the iPhone to take a photo
Normally the Volume Up button will increase the sound level of everything
from your ringer to the music or video you are listening to. When you launch
the Camera app, however, the Volume Up button transforms into a shutter
release button, letting you snap pictures with a squeeze of a finger. As a
special bonus, if you have headphones plugged in, and you launch the Camera
app, the headphones volume button becomes a long-distance remote shutter
release.
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When you are running VoiceOver: you can add a text label to the photos in
your Photos App.
There are a few Ways you can get a photo described to you right in the Apple
photos app. For one thing, as you are swiping through your photos, you can
perform a three finger single tap on the photo to hear a description, also
often read automatically, of what is in the photo. You might hear things
like, table, chair, two people. This is just an example. When doing this,
make sure that your screen curtain is off, and that the brightness is not
set to zero. next, while you can of course listen to videos that you may
have taken, you can also do this with Live Photos. If you have the live
photo setting turned on in the camera, Open a live photo, then double tap
and hold where it says live photo. You will hear a couple seconds of audio.
This, combined with the description voiceover gives you, can often be enough
to determine much about the photo. Beyond this, if you have some cited help,
you can name the people in your various photos, so that going forward,
voiceover will tell you who is in every photo you have. You can also search
for photos based upon topics, events, people, dates, and locations. Finally,
if you are certain of what a particular photo is, you can use the two finger
double tap and hold on any photo, to open the voiceover label element
feature. Then you can provide a descriptive label for each of your photos.
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to assign a VoiceOver label to pictures in the Photos app, do the following:
Open the Photos app and go to the four tabs that are at the bottom of the
screen. locate the picture by Selecting the "Albums" tab and select
"Recents" view.
Each picture will already be labeled with a date and time.
Open the picture that you want to assign a text label to, with a one finger
double tap. Flick right until you hear the date and time that the photo was
taken: for example "November 26, 10:15AM.
Perform a two finger double tap and hold on the second tap.
You will hear a three long beep sound. This brings up the on screen
keyboard and places the VoiceOver cursor in the first element of a editable
text field.
Type the name of the photo: such as "picture of our cats under the
Christmas tree".
Then locate the "Save" button which is located near the upper right hand
side of the screen, or you can keep flicking left with one finger until you
locate the Save button and Perform a one finger double tap.
Your photo will now have a text label when you are in the Recents album of
your photos app.
