With iOS 18, customers can change the default digicam app on the lock display screen with a third-party app.
Halide and Obscura — two well-liked digicam apps designed as alternate options to Apple’s default digicam app with handbook controls and completely different picture processing algorithms — have already taken benefit of that chance and launched updates with shortcuts for the lock display screen.
Swapping out the digicam button on the lock display screen requires fairly a number of faucets. First, you might want to lengthy press in your wallpaper to enter lock display screen customization mode, which helps you to edit your lock display screen or create a brand new one.
Then, you delete the default lock display screen digicam icon, which leaves behind an empty spot with a + signal on it. Faucet that spot, and it opens up a menu with an inventory of all of your out there shortcuts. In case you have Halide or Obscura put in in your cellphone already, you may choose a shortcut for one in all these apps from this drawer. After that you may hit “Done” to put it aside as your default lock display screen. (Or “Add” to put it aside as a brand new, various lock display screen.)
When you’ve accomplished this, everytime you press the brand new shortcut in your lock display screen, the display screen fades to black after which it opens the seize display screen of Obscura or Halide. For those who swipe up, you return to the lock display screen. This manner, customers can open the digicam app, take a number of pictures and lock their cellphone once more.
Similar to Apple’s default digicam app, you may’t entry the picture library from the digicam display screen for privateness functions. Once you faucet within the nook to entry previous pictures, it opens the full-fledged digicam app with entry to the digicam roll.
In my expertise with an iPhone 15 Professional, opening a third-party digicam app isn’t as quick as opening Apple’s default digicam app. It takes an additional second or two. Nevertheless, in case you had been already juggling between Apple’s default digicam app and a third-party app, you may nonetheless achieve this as you may entry Apple’s digicam by swiping proper on the lock display screen.
And in case you’re not but prepared to cover Apple’s digicam app out of your lock display screen, you may add an Obscura or Halide shortcut within the newly redesigned Management Heart — the menu that you simply entry by swiping down from the highest of the show. You possibly can add shortcuts for third-party digicam apps in there as properly.
