FEATURE Amazing iPhone hacks

Camera, Photos & AR

Get even more from your iPhone’s amazing cameras

The Camera and Photos apps have some useful advanced features, and there are some great apps out there to make use of your iPhone’s augmented and mixed reality capabilities.

In Photos, Visual Look Up gives instant access to information about things in your photograph. This includes landmarks, pets, flowers, books, works of art and more. It’s easy to use. Open a photograph in the Photos app. At the foot of the screen there’s an ‘i’ in a circle icon, which gives information about the photo. If this icon is augmented by a star, or changes shape to resemble something in the photo, Visual Look Up is available. Tap the icon, and at the top of the panel that pops up is an option marked ‘Look Up [Object]’. Tap this option for information, links, similar pictures and more.

Styling and sorting

If you have a series of photos to which you wish to apply the same edits, you can copy and paste them. After editing a photo, tap the ‘…’ button and select Copy Edits. Open the next photo, tap the ‘…’ button again and select Paste Edits. It’s as simple as that.

You can also recover recently deleted pics and videos, and access those you’ve hidden. Tap Album at the foot of the Photos app, and scroll all the way to the bottom. There you see the Hidden option; tap it and enter your passcode to see your hidden media. Below that is Recently Deleted, for which you also need your passcode. Deleted media is kept there for 30 days before being deleted permanently, so if you bin something accidentally, it can be recovered.

Top 5 augmented reality apps

>Free >App Store

>A free video app from Apple. You can use the iPhone’s LiDAR capabilities to detect space, and turn your room into adisco, leave atrail of stars behind you as you move and more. There’s some great camera effects to play with too.

>£2.99 >App Store

>This educational app brings extinct creatures back from the dead and into the real world. Featuring David Attenborough as aguide, you learn about the fish-like Opabinina, the flying dinosaur Dimorphodon and more.

>Free smithsonianchannel.com

> Relive NASA’s journey to the moon. You get to meet the crew of the Apollo 11, take