How to Use Smart Take on iPhone Duo

There’s a brand-new feature on the iPhone Duo called Smart Take, which lets you get group photos and selfies without needing to touch the phone. It will detect your smiles, it’ll detect you looking at the screen, and it will only take the picture when everyone’s ready. Let me show you how this works, because it’s a really cool feature, and I love using it on my iPhone Duo.

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Okay, so in the Camera app on the Duo, we can first of all position the phone in different ways. Sometimes I’ll have it flat on the table with the camera pointing out, but having it in this sort of position is also really good for this mode. What we can do here is line up the camera with the person we’re photographing, or the group of people, and then, in the Camera app itself, we’re going to press Camera Options here, scroll to the bottom and choose Smart Take.

This will add a second shutter button to your screen. And if we tap on this one, the yellow one, it’s not going to take a picture immediately. Instead, the phone is going to wait for everyone to be in position, smiling and looking at the camera, and when that happens, it’s going to start taking photos.

You’ll know it’s working because a little flash on the back will pulse gently when it takes a picture. And on the inside screen, if you were looking at it from the other side, you actually get to see the pictures developing on the side, and you can see all the ones it’s taking in real time.

You can then use the photos just like normal. You can open them, and you can delete them. All the photos are exactly the same as before. It’s not some weird format or anything.

The only difference is that the iPhone is now deciding when it thinks the best time to take a picture will be, and it’s going to keep taking pictures until you come over and stop it. So, it’s a good idea to get three or four nice pictures of the group, and then come back and review what you’ve taken.

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