enable camera on lockscreen ios5

enable camera on lockscreen ios5

by Oct 12th, 2011
iphone and ipad
enable camera on lockscreen ios5
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this will show you how to enable the camera in your ios5 iphone lockscreen.
the camera icon is missing from the lockscreen until you:

  • in the iphone lockscreen double tap the home button.
  • you will see the camera icon.

FAQ:

1) can I make the camera icon always be on the lockscreen without double tapping the home button?

sorry, its not possible, maybe in a future update :D

2) how do I zoom in the camera app?
check this post

enable camera on lockscreen ios5
  • Fuckyou

    Thanks. I was wondering why it wasn’t there!

  • Anonymous

    THANKS BRO

  • Morelm

    THANK YOU

  • guest

    whoa. it’s that simple? I feel like an idiot… but thanks! :)

  • Skypilot195

    what is the scroll bar that appears in the lock screen about a third of the way down when the cam button is activated?

  • Tk

    you are awesome you fixed my issue ive been trying to figure out all day thank you!

  • Ansh_xaviers

    cool…thanks

  • Leanndra

    Thank you SO much for answering this!!

    Can you set it so the camera ALWAYS comes up on the lock screen?

  • Dreamwire

    Thanks! I’vebeen trying to figure that out all evening.

  • Syamsul

    Thank you. Now I know where that is!

  • Me

    Thanks!

  • DJ

    I can’t find the zoom feature on my phone any longer.
    does anyone know if im doing something wrong?

    • inder

      pinch to zoom out/in

    • Whitneygrace24

      pinch the screen and it should come up

    • Solo Filipino

      The new feature with iOs 5 is that it’s pinch to zoom. Kinda like u do to zoom in on a web page. Hope this helps,

    • Guest

      pinch to zoom

  • Dalsandor

    Thank you

  • Peter

    Thank you – I wondered where it was – unlike Apple not to say (or is it?) 

  • yusglas

    jonathan i love you for this

  • Dee B. Pickus

    I don’t get that. I get my iPod bar at the top of the lock screen. And I just upgraded to iOS5.

  • Kathy

    This is very useful thank you so much !!!

  • Akhee_mou

    Thanks again for the answer!

  • Axk7775

    Can we set it such as the camera icon come always on the lock screen. Mine keeps disappearing and each time have to pree home button twice to enable it. 

  • http://twitter.com/brendan2k brendan2k

    Great response to an annoying problem. Thanks

  • Sonbird

    Thx, I couldn’t locate how to activate it, Big help!

  • Meganw6865

    How do I put my pictures into albums???

  • Guest

    DUMB!  It should just be there automatically… but THANK YOU for answering!

  • Tomking707

    I’ve heard a hundred times the camera was on the lock screen, but that’s a lie. Burying the camera on a screen you get after dismissing the regular lock screen, is hardly much of an improvement. I think its actually less direct and less useful.

    • http://jonathansblog.co.uk jonathan

      its slightly better than it used to be (unlocking, entering code, finding the screen with the camera app, opening the folder with the camera app, clicking the camera app compared to double clicking home and clicking the camera icon), but i agree, it would be much more useful if it was actually on the lock screen itself so you only had to single click the home button then press the camera icon. it means that you don’t miss most things now, but if it was on the lockscreen itself you’d miss nothing :D

      • Miško

        Right, Jonathan. For the heavy shooters among us, it IS an improvement, indeed. Very strange they didn’t make it accessible by single-clicking the home button. And… as long as the sync problems and the communist repression of the iTunes remain, Apple will irritate!

  • Aser

    To show always the camera in lockscreen:  install from Cydia the “CameraLocker”