enable camera on lockscreen ios5

by jonathan Oct 12th, 2011

this will show you how to enable the camera in your ios5 iphone lockscreen.

the camera icon is missing from the lockscreen until you:

FAQ:

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

2) how do I zoom in the camera app?
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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”
Sessions513

how do you take it off???
Unknown

This just says how to access it. On my lock screen it shows the camera icon but it’s not accessible. Two different words.

http://jonathansblog.co.uk jonathan

this is for ios 5.0. you have 5.1.
in ios 5.0 there is no camera icon on the screen. you have to double click the home icon.