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iphone camera zoom

this will show you how to zoom in on your iphone camera
it works on iphone 3gs, iphone 4, iphone 4s and iphone 5
it works with ios5 and ios6

in ios5 and later apple has hidden the zoom bar that was at the bottom in previous ios verions.

how to zoom in on your iphone camera iphone 3gs, 4, 4s and 5

its easy to re-enable, just

jonathans blog iphone camera zoom

in ios4 if the zoom bar is missing you need to touch the screen at the bottom for it to appear.

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  • Suresh Kumar Soni

    thanks for the tip. I was wondering if the zoom feature was removed

  • JoreJj Z. Elprehzleinn

    thanks this was helpful. Peace.

  • Cp2609

    Thanks a lot – you’ve saved me a lot of frustration with this feature. Isn’t it annoying when a feature you depend on just disappears…….

  • Crestfallenangels

    so bummed i couldn’t work this out on my own.

    i can count to potato.

  • Ines Jimenez

    Thank you so much. I had thought they removed it. I would have been seriously bummed if they did.

  • Postmaster

    God!  So easy! Been trying to find this for ages.  Thanks

  • Jane

    Thanks for that.  Some-one told me it was not avail with the upgrade lol  Knew that just did not sound right.

  • Gulydavis

    thank you :)

  • Toogracie

    Thx guys. Wish i had this as i went to my daughters christmas concert. Will know fir future

  • Mauliksraval

    Thanks

  • Comcoach

    New zoom sucks!!

  • Miško

    Thanks! It works…

  • Steve.Rand

    Yup, thanks. I should probably have tried that myself.. but I was tapping like I did before IOS5 but it wouldn’t show… pinching kinda makes sense, but will suck when you’re taking pictures one-handed (bike riding, fishing etc…) oh well!

  • Mike T

    Amazingly simple – I thought I lost the zoom by upgrading to 5.0.1.  Thanks

  • Heyjudebr

    THANK YOU!!! It was making me crazy!

  • Kristo

    How can i zoom when i record a video? I cant do it…

  • Gordon

    Was the zoom always digital?  Noe the zoomed image looks softer to me

  • Carolyn Newcott

    Thank you!!!

  • F_2s

    How can I zoom when I record a video?

  • Vkarlic

    Thanks so much! That was easy.

  • Graeme

    I tried the pinch with 2 fingers, doesn’t do anything, any idea what’s wrong?

    • http://jonathansblog.co.uk jonathan

      you need at least ios5 for that to work. if you have ios4 or less then there is a little zoom bar at the bottom

      • Graeme

        Thanks jonathan you’r the best, you have so many good tutorials on apple stuff.
        Just to add, in ios4 if the zoom bar is missing you need to touch the screen at the bottom for it to appear.

        • http://jonathansblog.co.uk jonathan

          cool, post updated :D