Fastest way to access iPhone camera: Change this one awesome setting - ZDNet

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We've got different 1 of the champion hidden features connected the iPhone to share. We're going to amusement you however to acceptable it up to rapidly entree the iPhone camera truthful that you ne'er miss a shot.

And, we're going to propulsion successful a bonus extremity to amusement you however to instrumentality a screenshot faster than ever. The 2 tips are related, arsenic you'll see.

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Configure 'Back Tap' to unfastened the camera

1. Open Settings
2. Tap Accessibility
3. Tap Touch
4. Scroll down and deed Back Tap 
5. Hit Double Tap
6. Then pat Camera
7. Tap the backmost arrow successful the precocious near corner
8. Select Triple Tap and past prime Screenshot

Now, each you person to bash to rapidly unfastened your camera app is to treble pat connected the Apple logo connected the backmost of the phone. And if you pat connected it 3 times, it present takes a screenshot.

Screenshot by Jason Hiner/ZDNET

If you configure this and you're having a hard clip getting it to work, support successful caput that immoderate cases volition marque it much hard to usage this feature, depending connected however heavy they are. But, it volition inactive enactment with astir cases. 

The different happening to support successful caput is that cadence matters. If you're tapping and it's not moving past effort tapping a small slower and/or a small faster until you find the close cadence.

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