Does the iPhone have a front flash. Smartphones for selfies with a good front camera. In the screenshot below, the front flash is on.

Modern Xiaomi phones are equipped with very good light support, excellent camera and loud sound when making calls. But still, users want to improve the performance with the help of tools, one of which is the flash. But how to turn on the flash on Xiaomi so that the pictures are of higher quality, and it was not difficult to receive an incoming call even in silent mode? In this article, we will talk about two areas where artificial light is needed.

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Flash on call

Sometimes situations arise in which it is necessary to answer a call, but it is rather problematic to find out about it. The most common problem is a noisy crowded room. For example, at a party, when loud music and people talking make it almost impossible to hear your ringtone.

Vibration may not help either. To recognize it, you must constantly hold the device in your hands. The only correct solution is flash. Thanks to her, it is almost impossible to miss an important call.

1. We are looking for "Settings" on the main screen, we go.
2. Now open System Applications.
3. A new window opens, look for the item " Challenges", press.
4. We get into the phone settings, which allow you to change the options at your discretion. Click on " Incoming calls».
5. We are looking for an item - " Flash notifications", turn it on.

Turning on the flash when taking pictures

Photography is quite a complex art, but the Xiaomi camera solves a lot of problems. Of course, the quality of the photo depends on the smartphone model and its cost, but even an excellent camera sometimes takes poor pictures in a dimly lit room, not to mention the darkness of the night. There is a way out - turn on additional light on your smartphone.

Let's take a look at the benefits of flash photography:

• Clear lines and good visibility at night. Very relevant for travelers who love to capture the beautiful nature and architecture;
• The absence of falling shadows and "noise" in the photo;
• When it comes to selfies, then soft and smooth facial features, which adds more attractiveness in appearance;
• There is no need to use third-party flashlights that run out quickly or require batteries to work.

Here you will need not Settings”, as in the above situation, and the camera is in real time. Open the application of the same name, go to the mode " Photo"And in the upper left corner we find the icon with the image of energy.

Several modes open, from which you need to choose one that suits you best:

• Switch off- turns off the flash.
• Turn on- turns on the flash every time you take a picture, regardless of the degree of illumination and the time of day.
• Auto- the camera determines itself when a flash is needed.
• Flashlight- makes a real flashlight out of the flash. They can illuminate objects, being, for example, in a dark room and at the same time take photos with an excellent level of illumination.

Video instruction

Taking the perfect selfie is very, very important to some people. Your selfies don't have to suffer from low light, Apple has decided to equip its iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus with a front-facing flash. As such, it simply serves as a phone screen. Such a “flash” gives quite enough light so that the quality of shooting on the front camera in low light becomes better. But what about those who do not have new iPhones? No need to worry, because now you can organize a “selfie flash” on older models.

How to make a selfie flash on any iPhone?

Go to the App Store, search for “front flash: selfie camera” and select the app from Wanaka Mobile LLC with the blue icon. The program is called Take Selfies Free - With Front Flash In Low-Light. I installed this program on my iPhone 5s.

Once downloaded, open the app. The developer placed ads in it, so that every time banners will be shown to you.

The app works in the same way as the built-in feature of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, i.e. your screen turns into a flash. To take a photo, click on the timer in the corner of the screen. The timer is set to 3 seconds, so you need to clean yourself up very quickly.

After three seconds, the screen will light up. Keep in mind that the brightness of the screen burning will depend on the brightness settings of the display. The lower they are, the less strongly your flash will burn. Therefore, if you need a lot of light, turn the brightness to the maximum.

Let's look at the comparison below. Both images were taken in a kitchen with very dim lighting. The left picture was taken on a standard application. The right one is on Take Selfies Free. You can clearly see that Take Selfies Free adds a decent amount of light, so at least you can see the face. Without a front-facing flash, the built-in app can't handle the darkness at all.

That's how easy it is to take a flash selfie on any iPhone. Of course, this is not the original technology that Apple used in the new iPhones, because a special chip is built into their display, which allows the display to glow three times more than usual; however, that's fine too.

The Retina Flash feature, first introduced in the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, allows you to turn your smartphone display into a flash when needed to take selfies with the front (front) camera.

To tell the truth, the front camera has always been the weak point of the iPhone. With the appearance in iPhone 6s The 5-megapixel camera solved this problem, and with the release of the iPhone 7 (and still), the front camera allows you to take pictures with a resolution of 7 MP. Recall that in previous generations, a 1.2-megapixel camera was used.

Whatever the resolution, if the lighting is not enough, then the photos are of poor quality. The iPhone's main camera has been equipped with an LED flash for a long time, which is not the case with the FaceTime camera. Taking selfies at a party or in a club with the iPhone has always been quite problematic due to the lack of light.

How to turn front (front) flash on or off on iPhone

With release iPhone 6s Apple has implemented a feature in iOS that exists in the app, which causes the screen to turn white to illuminate the face when taking a self-portrait. Just like the main camera flash, Retina Flash automatically detects the light level by using a neutral white pre-flash before selecting the appropriate brightness and light tone. Often the screen lights up in an amber hue, which illuminates the face more favorably than regular white.

Retina Flash is activated in the same way as the flash of the main camera - by clicking on the corresponding icon on the screen.

In the screenshot below, the front flash is on:

Front (front) flash off (left) and on in auto mode:

Additional lighting can be indispensable when shooting selfies, but it is worth remembering that the results can still be less than ideal, as always when only one light source is used. However, brightly highlighted selfies are often preferred over dark and washed out ones due to insufficient lighting.

One of the additional features that did not receive due attention in the reviews was the . Smartphones have been equipped with this option for the convenience of taking selfies in low light conditions.

In fact, the front flash is nothing more than an additional function of the display. When taking a picture, the screen lights up to maximum brightness for a second, which allows you to take selfies in unlit rooms or at night. There is nothing innovative in this option, but until recently it was available only to owners of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Thanks to the developers of applications and jailbreak solutions, users who own earlier models of the Apple smartphone will also be able to use the front flash.

How to Enable Selfie Flash on iPhone 6, 5s, 5, 4s with Jailbreak

Even before the appearance of the Retina flash function in the new iPhone models, the FrontFlash tweak successfully coped with a similar task. While taking a picture, it turns on a white splash screen and raises the brightness of the display to maximum. Unlike the option that the new iPhones are endowed with, the tweak lacks the ability to control the color of the flash. So if you are the owner of previous models of the "apple" smartphone and want to use the front flash, you can safely download the FrontFlash addon from Cydia. The tweak is free.

If you haven't jailbroken your device but would like to have access to the selfie flash feature, you can also use the Take Selfies FREE app. It is designed to take a photo using the FaceTime camera and contains, among other things, screen brightness settings.

The result of using this program cannot be compared with the quality of photos taken on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus using the front flash, however, in the absence of a worthy alternative, there are simply no other options for taking selfies in low light