How To Change The Settings On My Ipad Camera

Change advanced photographic camera settings on your iPad

Learn how to manually adapt the focus and exposure, plough the shutter volume on and off, and change other Camera settings on your iPad.

Adjust the focus and exposure

Before you take a photo, the iPad camera automatically sets the focus and exposure, and face detection balances the exposure across many faces. To manually accommodate the focus and exposure, follow these steps:

Tap the screen to reveal the automated focus area and exposure setting.
Tap where you want to motility the focus area.
Next to the focus expanse, drag up or downwardly to conform the exposure.

To lock your manual focus and exposure settings for upcoming shots, touch and hold the focus area until you lot see AE/AF Lock; tap the screen to unlock settings.

Use a grid to straighten your shot

To display a grid on the camera screen that can help you straighten and compose your shot, go to Settings > Camera, and then plow on Grid.

After you take a photograph, yous can use the editing tools in the Photos app to farther align shots and accommodate horizontal and vertical perspective. See Straighten and adjust perspective.

Save camera settings

Y'all tin save the last camera manner you lot used so it'due south not reset when you next open up Photographic camera.

Get to Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings.
On supported models, you can also preserve Live Photos settings.

Adjust the shutter volume

Suit the volume of the camera shutter sound using the volume buttons on the side of your iPad. Or, when Camera is open, swipe down from the top-right corner of the screen to open Control Middle, and so drag .

Mute the shutter sound using the book buttons or the Ring/Silent switch, if your iPad has one.

The shutter doesn't make a sound when Live Photos is turned on.

Note: In some countries or regions, muting is disabled.

Come across Adapt the volume on iPad.

Turn Scene Detection off and on

On iPad Air (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation), and iPad Pro 11-inch (third generation), the Scene Detection setting tin can identify what you're taking a photo of and apply a tailored look to bring out the best qualities in the scene.

Scene Detection is on past default. To turn off Scene Detection, go to Settings > Camera, so turn off Scene Detection (iPadOS 14.2 or later).

Turn Lens Correction off and on

On iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th generation) and iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), the Lens Correction setting adjusts photos taken with the front camera or Ultra Wide camera for more than natural-looking results.

Lens Correction is on past default. To turn off lens correction, go to Settings > Photographic camera, then turn off Lens Correction.

Mirror the front camera

To have a mirrored selfie that captures the shot as you run into it in the photographic camera frame, go to Settings > Camera, then turn on Mirror Front Photographic camera.