iOS 16 is bringing a lot of new features to your iPhone, and one of them is the Shared Photo Library, which will let you set up a separate library that multiple people can access and add photos to. Here, we'll show you how to fill your Shared Library with relevant pictures right from the start, automatically.
By Rachel Needell
iPhone's screen record feature is amazingly useful for capturing exactly what's happening on your iPhone's screen. When you're finished screen recording on iPhone, the video will automatically save to your Photos app for easy access. However, have you wondered how long the iPhone can screen record? We have the answers below!
By Brian Peters
Shared Photo Libraries are an interesting new feature in iOS 16 (available currently as beta software and as shipping software starting in September), but you can only join one at a time. If you've joined one and want to leave it so you can join or create another one, finding where to do so can be a little confusing. Whether you joined a Shared Library by accident, need to start your own, or just aren't finding the feature useful, we'll show you how to easily leave or delete a Shared Photo Library.
By Conner Carey
If you're an avid iPhoneographer, there are certain camera settings you may want to be standard in the Camera app on your iPhone. You can preserve a few different camera settings so that you don't have to enable your preferred settings every time you go to take a picture. Let's take a look at how to save Camera settings on your iPhone.
By Rhett Intriago
Night mode on iPhone is a feature that makes low-light photography easier. It allows the camera sensor to capture more light than normal so that a photo with little lighting can still come out crystal clear. However, sometimes, this feature will activate when it isn’t really needed, and its delayed photo capture can be annoying when you're not expecting it. Here’s how to turn off Night mode on iPhone quickly.
By Jivan Hall
If you haven’t upgraded your Mac software to macOS Monterey yet, the Live Text feature is a compelling reason to do so. The Live Text feature allows you to select, copy, and paste text from a photo into another needed location. Not only that, once you have selected the text, you can use Visual Look Up to quickly get directions, call a phone number, visit a website, or translate a foreign language.
By Rhett Intriago
Shared Albums on iPhone are incredibly useful when sharing photos with friends and family. Rather than sending the same photos to multiple people, you can just upload the photos to one album that is then shared with everyone. However, if you don’t want to be a part of a Shared Album, leaving is easy.
By Erin MacPherson
How do you take a motion shot on an iPhone? An iPhone camera is all you need to capture exciting action shots! Here's how and when to use Live and Burst photos on your iPhone.
By Conner Carey
What is Portrait mode on an iPhone, and what does Portrait mode actually do? Portrait mode lets the iPhone camera focus on your subject and blur the background, creating a stunning depth-of-field effect. Here's how to use Portrait mode on an iPhone!
By Rachel Needell
A particularly fun and exciting iOS 16 addition to the Photos app is the ability to share an entire photo library. While this feature is amazing for family vacations, group projects, and more, you will want to make sure you are only sharing the photos you want to share. To keep some of your photos private while using a Shared Photo Library, we'll show you how to use Share Manually.
By Rachel Needell
In order to invert the colors on an iPhone photo, you will need to download a photo editing app like Photoshop Express, Lightroom, or you can surf the web for online tools that will easily convert your image. For this example, I will be using Photoshop Express. Here's how to invert colors on an image on your iPhone.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Live Text on iOS 16 is a helpful and convenient feature, but what do you do if it isn't working? Live Text lets you select text from an image and copy, paste, search, and more, but you might run into a frustrating situation where it doesn't work. If Live Text doesn't work for you, we'll go over all the reasons why that might be happening and how to fix it.
By Olena Kagui
Pets are part of the family, and with iOS 17, you can finally add cats and dogs to the People album! We’ll teach you how to get your Photos app to identify the pets in your photos as accurately as possible. This lets you search for specific pets among all your photos and even create pet-specific Memories.
By Olena Kagui
Any iPhone with two or more rear cameras has both optical and digital zoom capabilities. This article will teach you the difference between them so that you can take better photos. I'll also teach you a trick to ensure you are using optical zoom for the best results.
By Belinda Sanmiguel
Perhaps you've found an image you love online and want to save it as a gift idea or an inspiration for your latest creative endeavor. The problem is, how do you save a photo from Safari on your iPhone? To save a photo from Safari, you can either long-press an image to download it, or copy and paste it from Safari into one of your iPhone apps.
By Brian Peters
The Shared Photo Library feature can help make collaborating and sharing photos with friends, family, and coworkers easier than ever, but there are some important things to be aware of when you use it that the Photo app doesn't make completely clear. Here's what to be aware of when deleting photos from a Shared Photo Library.
By Leanne Hays
iCloud photos not syncing means risking treasured pictures if something happens to your iPhone or iPad. Here's how to fix photos not uploading to iCloud photo storage, and how to upload photos to iCloud without worry.
Can you delete pictures off iPhone and keep them on iCloud? Yes, you can! Here's how to delete photos from iPhone but not iCloud. This is a bit tough, because if you sync photos to iCloud from your iPhone, whatever pictures are deleted on your iPhone are also deleted from your iCloud Photo Library. We’ll teach you the four ways to stop iCloud from deleting photos you delete off your iPhone.
By Conner Carey
Screen Recording is a useful tool for any time you need to capture something on your iPhone, either to share with others or to review later. iOS has a simple tool for screen recording built right in, and we'll show you how to use it to make sure you're capturing the sounds you want and nothing else.
