Your iPhone camera has a HUGE secret – and Apple fans are going wild for it

YOUR iPhone has a clever zooming trick that you might not have known about.

It’s a way to quickly and easily zoom in and out while shooting video with an Apple smartphone.

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For the uninitiated, zooming is generally done by pinching or spreading your fingers.

But this can be tricky to do sometimes while recording on an iPhone.

And it can often leave you with a jittery zoom, which won’t look good in final footage.

Now TikTok gadget expert @BenObiTech has revealed a clever iPhone hack that makes it much easier to zoom in and out.

First open your camera app up.

The press and hold on the shutter button to begin recording video.

Then simply drag your finger up or down the screen to zoom in or out respectively.

This means you can create ultra-smooth zooms with just one hand.

You can do this from the photo or video modes in the camera app.

Ben’s video has already received hundreds of likes in under a day – and is proving popular with Apple fans.

One commented: “Woah! I am deffo gonna be using this!”

Better still, the trick also works on Snapchat – so you can shoot and zoom using this hack directly inside the app’s own camera.

That’s not all

There’s another handy iPhone camera trick you might want to know about.

You can make Instagram-style Boomerangs with the iPhone’s regular camera app.

Open your iPhone camera and tap Live Photo.

It’s the circle in the top-right – when it’s off, a line will appear through it. Make sure there’s no line through the circle.

Then take a photo of whatever you want, but preferably of a scene with some motion.

Now go into your Photos app and open the image.

In the top-left, you’ll see a small piece of text that says “Live” – tap that.

Now you can choose between four different options.

You’ll want to select the bottom choice: Bounce.

This creates a Boomerang-style photo on your iPhone.

But you can also use this feature to create looped animated images or long-exposure shots too.

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