How to Use Camera Remote App on Apple Watch

Apple Watch is packed with various exciting features such as monitoring health conditions, walking and jogging schedule alongside heartbeat monitoring etc. Apart from these exciting features provided by your wearable device, one of the interesting features is to control your iPhone’s camera application. It is possible just from your Apple Watch face.

The shutter tab located on your watch face gives access to its users to control their iPhone camera application, but it needs to be connected with Bluetooth. Users are required to maintain a proper and compatible distance to sync both the devices.

How Camera Application Controls your iPhone Images and Photo-shots

Using an Apple wearable device is easy and convenient to carry as it is a wearable device. Apple provides a unique feature on your Apple Watch to remotely control all the images and shots taken on your iPhone. It would help if you connected via Bluetooth to do the same. It helps you to take image shots, launch the iPhone camera remotely. It also makes you convenient if you wish to take a photo from a slightly far distance. You can take your Selfie and click a picture on the iPhone by using your watch device.

To know how to use your wearable device for controlling Camera application of your iPhone, follow the offered instructions:

Using Apple Watch for Controlling iPhone Camera App

• First and foremost, open Camera application on your handheld smartphone.
• Then, press the “Digital Crown” located just over your Watch device.
• Now, search for the camera application of Apple Watch.
• Once you find the camera app, then take your iPhone to the location from where you wish to capture an image. For framing and adjusting the image, use the “Watch Preview” option there.
• To set up exposure and capture settings, hit the “Watch Screen” option there. It will appear as a yellow tab. You can manage the watch screen over your smartphone.
• To capture an image, press the white colour Shutter tab.
• The captured image will display at the right-hand side section of your screen.

Note: Users apply Shutter timer option for the count down feature that provides you extra time for setup and scene arrangements. When it times to capture the image, you will hear a beep sound with countdown numbers.

• Then, the flash will light, and the captured will automatically save to your iPhone.
• Hit the watch screen if you wish to view or hide Close tab and on-screen features including shot numerical counts.

Using Camera Specifications

There are various specifications in your watch camera application. The camera application provides four prominent modes:

1. HDR: This feature gives you an enhanced quality of the image with a wider tonal range.
2. Flip: This function allows you to switch between two different cameras – Front and Rear.
3. Live: This functionality provides you with easy access to capture live photos and videos.
4. Flash: Flash function enables the user to flash on your capturing image so that you can capture a brighter image even in the dull lighting environment. You can manage the feature in Flash settings.

Switching Camera Modes

Watch Device also enables the users to control the camera app not only capturing pictures but also videos, time-lapse, portrait, square, slo-mo, etc. To control these features, you have to manage it from your smartphone first.

• Firstly, hit the Camera application on your device to launch.
• Now, then select between various options such as Square, slo-mo, Video, Time-lapse and Portrait.
• Next, capture your desired image by using iPhone’s camera application or over your watch.

Checking and Viewing Captured Image on Apple Watch

• In the start, open your camera application on your wearable device.
• Tap the thumbnail tab located at the lowermost section of the screen if you wish to see your captured image.
• Swipe either left or right to see additional images on your device.
• In case you wish to zoom your image, hit the Digital Crown option there.
• If you wish to swivel your image horizontally, then press the enlarged image.
• To fill the screen with an image, double click your left mouse tab.
• Finally, exit the expanded screen.

Blair Lennon is a Internet Security expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, she has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as norton.com/setup.

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