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Take photos with your iPad camera

Learn how to take photos with your iPad camera. Choose from camera modes such as Photo, Pano, and Square, and use camera features such as Burst and Live Photos.

The Camera open in Photo mode.

Take a photo

Photo is the standard mode that you see when you open Camera. Use Photo mode to take still photos. Swipe the mode selector up or down to choose a different mode, such as Video, Pano, Time-lapse, Slo-mo, and Portrait (on supported models).

  1. Open Camera Camera on your iPad.

  2. Tap the Shutter button or press either volume button.

Note: For your security, a green dot appears at the top of the screen when Camera is in use. See Control access to hardware features.

Use the timer

You can set a timer on your iPad camera to give yourself time to get in the shot.

  1. Open Camera Camera on your iPad.

  2. Tap the Timer button, then tap 3s or 10s.

  3. Tap the Shutter button to start the timer.

Turn the flash on and off

You can control the flash on iPad models that support True Tone Flash.

  1. Open Camera Camera on your iPad.

  2. Tap the Flash button, then tap Auto, On, or Off.

Zoom in or out

  1. Open Camera Camera on your iPad.

  2. Do one of the following:

    • Pinch the screen to zoom in or out.

    • Tap 1x on the left side of the screen.

    • Drag the slider on the left side of the screen up or down.

    • Touch and hold the zoom controls on the left side of the screen, then drag the slider right or left.

Take a panorama photo

  1. Open Camera Camera on your iPad.

  2. Choose Pano mode, then tap the Shutter button.

  3. Pan slowly in the direction of the arrow, keeping it on the center line.

    Camera in Panorama mode. An arrow, left of center, points right to show the direction of the pan.

  4. To finish, tap the Shutter button again.

Tap the arrow to pan in the opposite direction. To pan vertically, rotate iPad to landscape orientation. You can reverse the direction of a vertical pan, too.

Capture action shots with Burst mode

Use Burst mode with your iPad camera to capture photos of a moving subject, or when you want to take multiple high-speed photos so that you have a range of photos to choose from. You can take Burst photos with the front and rear cameras.

  1. Open Camera Camera on your iPad.

  2. Choose Photo or Square mode.

  3. Touch and hold the Shutter button to take rapid-fire photos.

    The counter shows how many shots you took.

  4. Lift your finger to stop.

  5. To select the photos you want to keep, tap the Burst thumbnail, then tap Select.

    Gray dots below the thumbnails mark the suggested photos to keep.

  6. Tap the circle in the lower-right corner of each photo you want to save as an individual photo, then tap Done.

To delete the entire group of Burst photos, tap the thumbnail, then tap the Delete button.

See alsoTake a selfie with your iPad cameraTake a selfie in Portrait mode with your iPad cameraRecord videos with your iPad camera
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