A mum has revealed the perfect trick for taking photos on iPhones: ditching the self-timer.
She regretted wasting so much time “running back and forth with the damn timer.”
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Kallie Branciforte — also known as “that handy mom” on TikTok — spent less than a minute updating her iPhone settings.
“Are you telling me I’ve been running around looking for a timer when I could have been doing this the whole time?” she joked.
“OK, parents, I just learned a new iPhone camera hack that you’re going to want to know about, and it’s how to use a voice command to take photos.”
She advised iPhone users to go to their device’s settings and then tap “accessibility.”
The next step is to press the voice control button.
“Make sure in this section that you have set up voice command – with the voice control option turned on,” Branciforte added.
“If it’s not, it won’t work.”
The next step is to create a new command.
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In the “phrase” section, you can type what you want to record – this is the phrase you will say to turn on your iPhone camera when needed.
Then in the app, scroll down to the camera option and under the “action” section, she advised doing this as a “perform custom gesture”.
And you then record your custom gesture – “in this case, it’s where you tap where the camera shutter button is located.
“So you have to tap a few times where the camera button normally is.”
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This gesture will activate burst mode on your iPhone’s camera.
You want your custom voice command to trigger the capture of a few photos, rather than just one – hence the burst mode option.
Make sure to tap “back” and save.
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Once complete, there is no need for self-timers, just set up the perfect photo pose and “say your magic word”.
Your iPhone will do the rest.
“Make sure your voice control is on,” the mother repeated.
Also make sure your camera is open when using the command – it’s only set to the camera app.
“Keep in mind that – when you’re out and about – you’ll need to say this word or phrase loud enough for your iPhone to hear it, so we advise against choosing something embarrassing,” he said. Technological radar.
“When you open the camera app and say the phrase of your choice, your iPhone automatically shoots a burst of photos.
“You’ll still only have a second of time between saying your line and the photos being taken, but at least you’ll have all the time in the world to properly frame yourself in front of the camera.”
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