Snapchat Debuts New Dual Camera Feature on iPhone

[MacRumors]

Snap today announced the launch of a new Dual Camera feature, which is designed to allow Snapchat users to record or capture photos using the front and back iPhone cameras at the same time.

The Dual Camera option can be accessed from the camera toolbar, and it is available for Snaps, Stories, and Spotlight videos. Snap says that it is a way for Snapchat users to "capture exciting moments while being part of the memory."

There are four layouts available, including vertical, horizontal, cutout and picture-in-picture. With the first two options, the view is split either vertically or horizontally, but with picture-in-picture, a circular front-facing camera view is overlaid on top of the back camera view. For the cutout view, Snapchat takes a cutout from the front-facing camera and overlays it on the back camera view.

Dual Camera is available to all iOS users as of today. Snapchat can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Snapchat Debuts New Dual Camera Feature on iPhone

 

[SwiftArtery]

Possibly because of BeReal?

 

[macduke]

This seems like an actual good use case. I expect TikTok will copy this functionality within the month.

 

[vercordio]

Possibly because of BeReal?

Kind of strange that wasn’t mentioned at all in the article.

 

[ackmondual]

IIRC, a Samsung phone I used (Galaxy s4), or LG G4 (it's been quite a while ago) had this as well, but it's nice to have this directly on the apps being used. Makes it much more accessible, and integrates well within those apps

 

[robgreene]

Possibly because of BeReal?

100%. That app is all the rage right now in Snap's target demographic.

 

[PaulAllen/]

This is pretty cool.

 

[TSE]

I had Snapchat for less than a day.

I was a freshman in university. A girl I was hooking up with told me to download it so I did even though I had no idea what it was. The first message I ever got was in my small morning German class with about 10 students in it. I was in the front of the class, and unexpectedly to me, a fullscreen nude shot of this girl appears on my screen from opening this message. I was holding the phone in such a way that everyone behind me saw.

I quickly closed it, became red with embarassment, and uninstalled Snapchat to never use it again.

True story.

 

[Spaceboi Scaphandre]

People still use SnapChat? I thought that app got dumped ages ago after the controversial UI changes and the fact half the time the app doesn't work at all.

 

[DaPizzaMan]

Would be nice to see features like this in the Clips app.

 

[Applɘ Aꙅylum]

While my Samsung Note 20 Ultra has its own dual camera feature, but iPhone doesn't.

Yet Snapchat can do that ON iPhone??

 

[W.O.P.R.]

I had this feature on my LG G5 back in 2016. It was interesting, if situational. For example taking a picture of the stadium during a sporting event with a small selfie of my wife and I in the stands. I think I used it maybe a half dozen times total (which is about 5 more selfies than I take with a given phone).
Mostly it was just for the novelty of it. I generally prefer full frame photos that I can edit later rather than using some trick mode and having subpar photos. Plus you have to frame both the forward facing and rear facing cameras at the same time and generally it is hard to find an ideal angle of both.
Who wants a photo of something amazing with a selfie in front of something like a bathroom sign or a good selfie but a crappy photo of whatever it is you are taking a picture with. Plus if the subject is low your selfie is pointed up your nose or if it is in the air, the selfie makes you look like baby birds at feeding time.
It is a feature that is better in theory than in practice.

 

[erikkfi]

Too bad they don’t yet have the technology to let users turn off typing notifications on iOS yet. That’s what I’m really waiting for. Hope we get it this decade.

 

[Darkwalker]

Would be nice to see features like this in the Clips app.

No one uses that 💀

 

[JippaLippa]

Is Snapchat still a thing?

 

[contacos]

People still use SnapChat? I thought that app got dumped ages ago after the controversial UI changes and the fact half the time the app doesn't work at all.

That’s what I always wonder since I don’t see the Snapchat logo on any „find me on …“ marketing material whatsoever but then I see the Q results in terms how many people are still using it and well I guess I am just old now

 

[EmotionalSnow]

I wonder why this feature has been added only now.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Snapchat owners turned down 750 million dollars each from Facebook to buy the app, so they could bet big on an AR/VR future that might never happen.

 

[HornOfAbraxas]

Snapchat owners turned down 750 million dollars each from Facebook to buy the app, so they could bet big on an AR/VR future that might never happen.

I see this as an absolute win. Even if the AR/VR future doesn't happen, at least Facebook doesn't own more stuff.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Hey! That’s pretty cool. The fact it's free and Snapchat is not charging it that's even better.

 

[GlassFingers]

Snapchat still exists?

 

[Mug_narwhal.0m]

Video mode on iPhone should have the function to switch cameras while recording.

 

[eifelbube]

Snap today announced the launch of a new Dual Camera feature, which is designed to allow Snapchat users to record or capture photos using the front and back iPhone cameras at the same time.

The Dual Camera option can be accessed from the camera toolbar, and it is available for Snaps, Stories, and Spotlight videos. Snap says that it is a way for Snapchat users to "capture exciting moments while being part of the memory."

There are four layouts available, including vertical, horizontal, cutout and picture-in-picture. With the first two options, the view is split either vertically or horizontally, but with picture-in-picture, a circular front-facing camera view is overlaid on top of the back camera view. For the cutout view, Snapchat takes a cutout from the front-facing camera and overlays it on the back camera view.

Dual Camera is available to all iOS users as of today. Snapchat can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Snapchat Debuts New Dual Camera Feature on iPhone

Why does Apple not make dual camera recording available iOS-wide, not just leave it up to developers to implement it??

 

[Mr. Awesome]

Video mode on iPhone should have the function to switch cameras while recording.

They probably just don’t think it’s worth the time spent working on integrating it with stuff like the video lens metadata.

 

[AppleTO]

Video mode on iPhone should have the function to switch cameras while recording.

It would be neat if you could wirelessly connect multiple iPhones/iPads/Macs together to do a multi-camera shot with live switching, but all built-in and directly into iMovie. The wifi chips must be strong enough at this point with wifi 6 to handle 3-4 streams.