How to use the new functions of the Camera application that incorporates iOS 14

We have been messing around with our iPhones for a few days with the latest iOS 14 update. widgets, the great novelty of this year's firmware.

But there are some new features that have gone unnoticed, but they also have to be taken into account. If you take a lot of photos with your mobile, you may have already noticed them. More than new functions, it is a more agile use of which we already had. Let's see them.

With the arrival of iOS 14, the Camera app has also undergone a number of changes. It is not that there are new features, but there is a more agile and intuitive way to use the ones we already had, and to be able to take photos with our iPhone more quickly and efficiently.

With iOS 14, the captures made by your iPhone's camera have not been improved, but you will find that now taking photos and modifying the modes and previous settings is much faster. According to Apple, speeds up the process up to 90 percent.

It also ensures that the time until the first capture, from touching the Camera application to open it, until you save the image taken, is 25% faster than it was before the update. And when you're taking a series of Portrait shots, the time to the next shot is 15% less than before.

How iOS 14 speeds up the process of taking a photo

If something suddenly happens around you and you want to take a quick snapshot, just press and hold the camera icon on the lock screen. OR swipe the screen with your finger to the left and in no time you'll have your camera ready to use.

If on the home screen, you press and hold the camera icon, a quick menu opens where you can go directly to take a selfie, record a video, take a portrait, or take a selfie in portrait mode.

With iOS 14 it's faster to choose different settings

Now you have different optional settings.

The iPhone camera and its Camera application is very versatile, and allows you endless configurations. Obviously it is not a SLR, but has a multitude of parameters that you can modify to your liking before taking a photo.

Instead of showing us the multitude of controls on the screen, you have a new icon in the center of the top from the screen. If you touch it, you will see certain settings that you can modify at the bottom of the screen.

One of these settings is the exposure compensation control. Previously, you had to tap on the screen to display the yellow box showing where the focus is, and then drag the brightness up and down.

You were really adjusting the AF / AE levels, autofocus, and autoexposure levels, and it was a bit complicated. It's now a control that makes it much easier to tap and swipe left and right to increase or decrease the brightness.

It's a live setting that you can make while using the Camera app to take a photo. But there are more settings that you can modify to your liking before taking any photograph, as if you were a professional photographer.

The most efficient way to use the new camera settings

Now you can activate or deactivate different settings.

Now, when you go to Settings and then to Camera in iOS 14 the settings have been reorganized to be easier to find and use. There are now four blocks of controls, starting with one that controls everything from the format in which shots are taken, to how you can take a burst of shots.

Two of the most significant controls are keep settings y turn up volume for bursts. The latter is a simple toggle which means that if you want you can always have burst mode available at the touch of a real physical button.

Keep settings has been expanded. This shows the same options that you chose last time. So if you recorded video the last time, the Camera application will open ready to record video this new session, for example. Similarly, you can optionally use the same aspect ratio, the same filters, etc.

Use or not the grid and other settings in iOS 14

We are all familiar with the option of overlaying a three-by-three grid to help us square a shot. Hereinafter, you can activate it from the same screen Camera within the iPhone Settings.

Here you can also activate the invert the image of the front camera, and see the surrounding area in the frame of the photo. You can choose to show all these settings or not, depending on whether you use them regularly or not.