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You Might Be Using Your iPhone’s Camera Sort of Wrong and Not Even Know it

I’ve seen many people do this

Photo by author

No, I’m not an iPhone camera expert. I wouldn’t presume to tell you how to take pictures with your phone — or with any camera at all. Oh, sure, I know enough to get by, but that’s about it.

No, this is about something I often saw people do when I worked as a salesperson at the Apple store.

Open your photos

A customer might ask me a question about putting some photos into a shared album. I’d ask them to open up Photos so that I could show them and what so many would do is click on their camera app and then click on the last photo they had taken — the thing I’ve circled in the photo above.

That will bring you to your photos. You can scroll through them, edit them, and even add them to a shared album, so that’s okay. There’s nothing you can’t do this way except easily select multiple photos at once. As selecting multiple photos was usually what they wanted, this wasn’t necessarily the best way to do that.

You CAN get to a better place from there by clicking on All Photos at the top right. That opens the Photos app for you.