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- Hey everybody David and David here
from PayItForward.com and UpPhone.com
and in this video we're going to tell you
about iPhone camera settings to change.
- And I think that you're really gonna enjoy these
because they're gonna make your life a little bit easier.
Things are gonna make a little more sense in the camera app.
So let's go to settings first.
- [David Dark Hair] Yeah open the settings app
and scroll down here to camera.
- Perfect! Let's tap on preserve settings
and this is actually talking about
keeping the settings that you choose in the camera app,
saving them so that next time you open the camera app
everything doesn't reset to the defaults.
Because the defaults aren't necessarily all that great.
So the first one is 'Camera Mode' lets flip that switch on.
You may have noticed that every time
you open the camera app it's stuck on photo
and maybe you like to take a lot of videos
so you don't like to, every time you have to go
and change it over to video.
Now you don't have to.
- [David Dark Hair] Great
- Let's leave 'Creative Controls' alone,
that's what I choose to do
because that has to do with the filters and stuff.
I like the camera to reset to the regular
non-filtered view for taking pictures.
But the third one is my favorite,
which is 'Live Photo'.
So go ahead and tap that switch to turn it on.
Live photos, a lot of people don't even know what they are,
but what they do is they record one
and a half seconds before a photo is taken
and one and a half seconds after the photo is taken.
And let's open the Camera app quick.
- [David Dark Hair] Yeah, opened up the App Switcher
by slipping up the middle of the screen
and I'm just gonna tap on Camera.
- So, 'Live Photos' is this circular yellow icon.
Live photos are essentially short little videos
so they take up a lot of storage space,
way too much.
So unless you're taking a video of something that's moving,
like a kid doin a jump,
or a Ferris wheel.
- [David Dark Hair] Mmhm
- Turn this setting off because
you do not need to be taking up so much space
by actually taking short videos,
instead of just the photos.
Also, you might have noticed that sometimes your friends,
like, a friend of mine sent me a live photo the other day
of a piece of paper.
It was like a scan, but it was just the piece of paper,
but it was this huge file that took forever to send
because he didn't realize that he could
just turn off 'Live Photo'
and take a picture of the piece of paper.
- [David Dark Hair] So I'll just tap
on the yellow circle button there.
Live photos are off.
- [David Blonde Hair] Right.
So now when you close the camera app,
reopen the camera app, they're still going to be off.
- [David Dark Hair] Yeah, so just to show you again.
Open up the app, swipe it of the top of the screen.
Open the camera app again and it's off.
- [David Blonde Hair] Right.
Just something to be aware of,
something you should definitely know whether it's on or not.
Next setting, lets head back to the Settings app,
go back to the main page of the camera settings.
Is the grid.
I like to turn on the grid.
- Yeah basically it makes it much easier
to center your photos or videos.
- Mmhm and they also have the rule of thirds.
You know about that,
- Nope. - With the grid.
You can see these little lines.
Photos are supposed to be more interesting
if the subject is not directly in the center,
but on one of the intersections of those lines.
And so it can help you to center it,
but you also you stick it, you know, off to the side.
It's more interesting.
- Absolutely. So back to the settings app again,
Scan QR codes.
QR codes, you know what those are probably, those boxes?
- Mmhm
- Like barcode boxes. - Yeah.
- Yeah, look at that.
- Yeah, use your camera. - Scan it.
- Scan it, opens up Safari or whatever, maybe an app,
and it's pretty cool.
- Yeah, it's really cool.
That's how you can do that on an iPhone.
Some people don't know you can scan QR codes on iPhones
just open the Camera app.
What's next?
'Record Video', let's go ahead and tap on that.
- This is where you can actually choose
the quality of the videos
you record on your iPhone.
- If you are going to record it really high quality
and you have a lot of storage space on your iPhone, 4K 60.
400 Megabytes a minute is a lot.
- Mmhm
- So an hour is gonna be 24 gigabytes,
if you have a 64 gigabyte iPhone.
It's probably already got a lot of stuff on it
you're gonna get one, two hours, max.
1080p 60 or 4k 30 is pretty safe bet.
Somewhere compromise in the middle.
- Yup, just pick your, what you want, essentially.
- Pick your poison. - Yep.
- Let's go back to camera and then 'Record Slow-mo'
Same deal, you can have it at 120 or 240 frames per second.
- Right, some of these numbers,
depending on the phone that you have,
might be a little bit different, but you get the idea.
David has the iPhone 11pro.
- Yep.
- The 240 frames per second is 480 megabytes a minute,
but for me I'm usually recording a golf swing or something,
so I just leave it in the slowest possible
so I can try to figure out what the heck is wrong!
- [David Dark Hair] Yep.
- With my swing.
- [David Dark Hair] So, let's go back
to the main page of the camera again.
Next let's tap on formats.
Here you can choose between
'High Efficiency' and 'Most Compatible'.
- [David Blonde Hair] Mmhm.
- [David Dark Hair] And it actually says here
"To reduce file size capture photos and videos
in the high efficiency format."
- [David Blonde Hair] Just use high efficiency.
(both talk at the same time)
- Unless you have some problem.
Sorry, cut you off.
- Yeah that's true, I agree.
- Okay.
- So wrappin up this part of the Settings app, real quick.
There are three, if you have an iPhone 11pro,
you're gonna see three options under "Composition."
Leave 'em all on, they're great.
And then, whether or not you do have an iPhone 11pro
and different models as well you'll see the HDR setting,
'Smart HDR' we like that feature to be left on too.
- One last thing to be aware of here
is actually a location services setting with the camera.
- Oh good call.
- So I'm gonna go back to the main page of the settings app
and then I'm gonna tap on
'Privacy, Location Services, and Camera'.
I had this on 'While Using',
because your photos will be Geo Tagged
and then in the photos app
it creates a nice little album for you
of where the pictures were taken.
It's pretty cool.
I can actually go open up the Photos app real quick and
show you what that looks like.
Here we go, 'Places', tap on that
and you can see on the map
where your photos were taken.
- [David Blonde Hair] How bout that?
- [David Dark Hair] Yep, pretty neat.
Pretty cool for family vacations, you know?
- Definitely.
- So those are iPhone settings to change.
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