You can set up a SIRI shortcut from the Gallery Tab in the Shortcuts app.
It is called "Say Cheese" to automatically take a picture with SIRI.
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Subject: [mac4theblind] Re: How to Use the Volume Buttons to Take Photos on
Your iPhone: Rita's iDevice Advice for July 20, 2020
Can Siri take a photo using IOS?
On 21 Jul 2020, at 12:33 am, Rita Howells <ritahowells@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
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.
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