The Camera application got some really cool upgrades in iOS 5. One of my favorite features is the ability to use the volume up button to snap a picture. This makes it so much easier to take photos now.
Another way Apple has improved the speed of taking pictures is allowing users to launch the camera app right from the lock screen. Now when your iPhone is locked and you double tap the home button you will see a camera icon next to the slide to unlock bar. Press this and you will be snapping pictures in no time. You will only be able to see the pictures you take in the session for security reasons. If you want to view all of your pictures in the photo album you will have to unlock your iDevice. (Note: I am not talking about the carrier unlock. I am talking about the slide to unlock!).
On a side note, another cool feature is the built in photo editing. You can auto enhance photos, remove red eye, and crop all from the photos app now.
UPDATE: As of iOS 5.1.1 the button is always on the lock screen. Just hold it and slide up and it will take you to the camera.
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Thanks for the tip, it was driving me crazy not seeing that camera icon. Looked everywhere on how to enable it.
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It’s in the article. Double tap the home button at the lock screen… 🙂
Doesn’t work on iPad 2 wifi
yeah, thanks a lot. i was going crazy 🙂
no prob
lol…. me too after installing and activating ios 5, i was shock that i could’nt find the camera in the lockscreen… thnks for the info…..
This works. If it doesn’t happen right away, take a look at Passcode Lock. Try On, then Off.
thanks a lot i thought my os has not loaded properly, well cool features to fall in love allover with your iphone again
Thanks for the tip! Now can you explain to me, why the notification center doesn’t show up in Lockscreen mode? This is drivng me crazy.
Because you have no new notifications. Have someone text you.
For notifications you have to set the settings for each app. Go into Settings> Notifications. Scroll down to Mail first and that will help you understand what to set. You have the following selections:
Notification Center = turn this on
Show = X unread items (this is the number that will pulse up at the top of the screen)
Alert Style = None – means it will not show up, Banners = new feature that shows them at the top of the screen, Alerts = same as iOS4.
Badge App Icon = On
Show Preview = On
View in Lock Screen – AHAH! this will turn on the event notifications while locked and let you open the app from there. You really need to turn this one one.
Now go back and look through the rest and see what you want to change each of them to.
The double tap from the lock screen is not working for me. It is bringing up a music control bar. Anyone else getting this?
I get the music control bar too, nothing about the Camera.
Me too. But the features work when I pull up the camera. Any solutions yet?
It is near the place where you slide to unlock in the bottom right corner. Click on the camera icon.
just updated to iOS 5, but the camera icon is not on the lock screen. I still have to double tap the Home button to make it display. Do I have to enable something to get it there permanently?
Its not meant to stay permanently, a lot of accidental pictures would pop up if it was left on!
That’s what’s supposed to happen. Prior to iOS 5, there was no camera icon there at all. iOS 5 added it.
Thank you! I was getting mega-pi$$ed trying to figure out where the promised lock-screen camera icon was. Didn’t know a double-tap was required. I started to think it was a 4S-only feature for some reason
thank you so much for the tip!!! I was starting to get pissed not knowing how to enable that camera button! thanks!
Thanks, I’ve spend quite a while to find this options
thanks for that was driving me crazy, though wonder why hidden behind the double click?
thanks!!!! i thought i was trippin or my phone was crazyyyyy. camera from lock screen was one thing i was so excited for!
Thanks aplenty. Like many others I updated to iOS5 today and no camera button on lock screen? Checked Apple site, no indication you have to double tap.
I have been looking for this info everywhere! Thanks Very Much!
I’m probably impatient and just didn’t spend the time trying to figure it out properly (except for scrolling through all of the settings!)
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Yeah had no idea how to find this. However I did figure out that after opening the camera that if you hit the home button again it completely bypasses the lock screen.
Not if you have a passcode set.
I do have a passcode set! If I just locked my phone then swiped I’d have to enter it. However if I locked my phone, double tapped the home button, entered the camera, then tapped the home button again it would go straight to my main page bypassing the lock screen.
Did this multiple times to be sure!
I did notice the lock screen being bypassed. I expected to go back to the lock screen but I don’t have my phone locked so that’s why. If it’s set to pass code immediately it goes to that screen instead
Yeah I had to change it to require my passcode immediately for it to work correctly.
The Cam has hide behind the double click as you dont want to activate it accidentally with a single tap, which could happen while the phone is in your pocket, bag, pouch, etc.
Also, I haven’t managed to replicate Cal assertion that you can bypass the lock screen by tapping the home button again. Anyone else managed to do this? That would be an EPIC fail for Apple’s testing team!
I have a pass code set and you can bypass the code by hitting the home botton. I just tested it on my phone and have access to eveything without have to put my code in.
Actually, you can’t. I just tested it on my phone, and it went to the passcode screen. If you have a delayed passcode, however, and the passcode timer hasn’t expired, it will bypass the passcode screen – but so would swiping the unlock bar on the lock screen.
Basically, if the passcode screen would show on an unlock, it will show when you press “Home” from the camera app, since that basically tells the phone to unlock just like swiping the unlock bar.
Your right. I just tried after changing the time from 15 minutes to Immediately and it required me to enter my code. Thanks for the clearification.
I have upgraded my i 4 to the OS 5 system. If I double click the home button it brings up the camera icon on the lock screen. If you click the icon and go to the camera, you can exit back to the main screen without unlocking.
Thx for tip…looked everywhere how to enable it
Bypassing the Lock Screen – I have Passcode lock turned on – but after 15 minutes. So, when I locked my phone then decided to try this tip – my phone was still “unlocked” so to speak… So once in the camera mode, clicking the home button brought me to my springboard.
I am guessing it all has to do with your passcode settings.
Is there a way to permanently leave the lock screen with the camera button?
Jailbreak tweak…Cameralocker
Thanks
Thanks a lot, works well…very much like the same tweak I had bought through cydia previously (same as the volume button to take a shot) 🙂
Thank you for this post and clear instructions. I’ve been searching through the settings tab without success. I appreciate your posts!
Thank you for this post and clear instructions. I’ve been searching through the settings tab on my iphone 4 running iOS 5 without success. I appreciate your posts!
If you go to the lock screen and Pull up the camera from it and then press the home button it will let you skip the passcode. Must be a glitch
Is this feature only for iPhone?? It works on my iPhone, but on iPad it shows a button for photos. Anyone knows?
I don’t know what’s up with my iPhone, but the double tap on the home button, does NOT bring up the camera icon on the lock screen. What am I doing wrong?
You have to have iOS 5
Just got this iPhone 4S and when I try to launch the camera from the locked position, it just jumps a little and does not open the camera app. Am I doing something wrong?
Thy changed it in iOS 5.1. Hold the icon and drag it up.