Enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen

Enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen

Enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen

instructions for ios11
instructions for ios10
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instructions for ios5.1 and ios6
instructions for pre ios5

How to enable camera on iphone or ipad lockscreen in ios11.

In iOS 11 the camera is part of your control center – to show the camera, swipe the your finger from the bottom of the screen towards the top of the screen – the control center will pop up from the bottom and you’ll see the camera icon.

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This Post Has 35 Comments

  1. Fuckyou October 13, 2011

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

  4. guest October 13, 2011

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

  5. Skypilot195 October 13, 2011

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

  6. Tk October 13, 2011

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

  8. Leanndra October 13, 2011

    Thank you SO much for answering this!!

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

  9. Dreamwire October 13, 2011

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

  10. Syamsul October 13, 2011

    Thank you. Now I know where that is!

  12. DJ October 13, 2011

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

    2. Whitneygrace24 October 13, 2011

      pinch the screen and it should come up

    3. Solo Filipino October 13, 2011

      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,

  14. Peter October 13, 2011

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

  16. Dee B. Pickus October 13, 2011

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

  17. Kathy October 13, 2011

    This is very useful thank you so much !!!

  19. Axk7775 October 13, 2011

    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. 

  20. brendan2k October 13, 2011

    Great response to an annoying problem. Thanks

  21. Sonbird October 14, 2011

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

  22. Meganw6865 October 14, 2011

    How do I put my pictures into albums???

  23. Guest October 14, 2011

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

  24. Tomking707 December 11, 2011

    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.

    1. Jonathan December 14, 2011

      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

      1. Miško January 6, 2012

        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!

  25. Aser February 17, 2012

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

  26. Someone March 8, 2012

    I don’t want to swipe, bring back the button.  Swiping is more work, more time, and gets the screen dirtier.  Awful change in behavior.

    1. jonathan March 9, 2012

      i like it, its one thing to do, rather than two things, but it would have been better if you just had to click it and it moved out of the way :D

  27. tom March 9, 2012

    i really dont like the swipe up camera icon i prefer to double tap home button

  28. Alxdon23 March 10, 2012

    This makes your phone unsecure cuz it bypasses the unlock code

  30. Unknown March 16, 2012

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

    1. jonathan March 16, 2012

      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.

  31. ........ March 17, 2012

    i cant c the camera underneath the lock screen…ZzZzZzZZZZZ

    Pls Help Me!!!

  32. CLinton March 17, 2012

    I cant c the camera app underneath the lock screen …. ZzZzz

    Pls help me

  33. ralph March 18, 2012

    Thank You! After poking at that damn camera icon for days (the action that used to  activate the cam in lock mode) at having it just bounce mockingly at me, a solution!

  34. Ryan March 21, 2012

    I just update to ios 5.1 and and when I activate my camera from the lock screen when I’m done using it, it doesn’t go back to the lock screen like the 2xtap lock screen camera on ios 5, it also doesn’t keep my previous pics locked either. When that camera is activated my whole phone is open for anyone to fuck some shit up. I hate it so my question is how to I turn that camera off or put some restrictions on it, or how do I downgrade back to ios 5?

  35. Kw3 March 24, 2012

    I don’t want to give access to the phone or any feature of the phone without passcode. What is the point of having a passcode if someone could record your conversations or take pictures of your environment and access your memory without it being you? I want it gone. Don’t have anything to hide. Just don’t want to give up what is totally me and mine. My home my family my memories. Could be dangerous and I would like to control my own danger. 

    1. jonathan March 25, 2012

      a few people have been saying this, so i experimented.

      go to settings > general > passcode lock

      make sure passcode lock is on and set to ‘require passcode > immediately’

      now everyone needs to enter a passcode to access your phone.

  36. PaleKasai April 10, 2012

    I have recentlgone from iPod touch to iPad 3 and have noticed a lot of changes, including the disappearance of some apps like clock and weather, as well as the quick shortcut of accessing camera right on the lock screen. Instead of accessing my camera, I can only use pictureframe and, after double tapping the home button, change the music settings. So how would I, WITHOUT JAILBREAKING OR USNG CYDIA, get that function on my lock screen?

  37. Carlo June 25, 2012

    I have already 5 iOS on my iPad why I cannot set the camera on my screen lock

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