If you are an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, or 11 Pro Max owner, there are a few tricks you might not know.

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The enhanced technologies and new capabilities of these cameras open up new possibilities for users. We thought a tutorial could help, but, first, these are their latest advancements:

Enhanced zoom capabilities
Deep Fusion, a new feature that takes better pictures
A new night mode for shooting in dark environments
An extra camera on the back, which means the iPhone 11 now has two cameras and iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, now have three.

It, luckily, remains as easy as ever to take pictures. However, a short tutorial on maximizing some of the latest features can be handy, so we invite you to read on!

Built-in timer

Apple has moved the toggles for the built-in timer, for things like the timer and filters. To view the toggles, tap the arrow at the top of the screen when holding your iPhone vertically. The arrow will reveal the various toggles, live photos, flash, aspect ratio, filters, and timer. To hide them once you're done, tap the button again. Another way to reveal the toggles is to swipe across the viewfinder.

Zoom out

While all three iPhone 11 models have an ultra-wide angle camera, they also contain a hidden feature. The ultra-wide angle cameras can zoom out on a photo taken with the wide or telephoto lenses - after you've taken it. This needs further explanation. If you take a picture of several subjects but missed one, you can go into the Photos app and use the crop tool to zoom out, bringing the missing subject back into the shot! That's a pretty nifty tool! There are two ways to do this.

How to turn on Photo Capture Outside Frame:

Open the Settings app
Select Camera
Scroll down and turn on Photo Capture Outside the Frame (It is important to note that any details captured outside the frame you don't use are deleted after 30 days.)
When there is additional detail available outside the frame, the camera indicates it with a square-star icon.

How to zoom out to capture detail:

First method:

Open the photo with the square-star icon.
Select the crop tool and zooming out.
If nothing appears, try the next method.

Second method:

Select the Crop tool.
Tap on the three-dot icon located in the top right corner
Select Use Content Outside the Frame.

Your iPhone will capture two photos that show the ultra-wide version or it will stitch the ultrawide shot around the main image (which is when you can zoom out on it). It's all a bit confusing, but the most essential thing to note is if you see the square-star icon, you can go ahead and zoom out in the crop tool or in the crop menu.

Various Zoom Levels

You have more flexibility than ever to adjust the zoom levels. The iPhone 11's cameras are each 12 megapixels. The iPhone 11 has an ultrawide-angle camera and a wide camera. While the iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max have the same two cameras and a telephoto camera. The main camera is the wide camera on each of these (labeled 1x in the camera app). You can adjust your zoom levels.

Tap the zoom option (either .5x or 2x) to switch between cameras, and the viewfinder will zoom in or out.
Scroll up or down to zoom in and out using the iPhone 11's new camera setup.
To fine-tune the zoom, press and hold on the zoom level, then drag the zoom tool.

One last thing to note: If you don't select one of the three fixed cameras (0.5x, 1x, 2x), you risk losing photo quality. That can happen because the camera's digitally zooming, instead of the user selecting the fixed focal lengths of built-in cameras.

Night Mode

We love enhancements that work by default, so we don't have to think about turning them on. The iPhone 11's new Night Mode is just that! Your iPhone automatically determines when there's not enough light available, and it engages Night Mode. If you see the Night Mode icon (a yellow moon with a few lines through it), you know it's working. The number displayed reflects the length of time it takes to capture the picture, which means that's how long you need to stay still after pressing the shutter.

To adjust or turn off Night Mode:

Adjust or turn off Night Mode by tapping on the Night Mode icon.
Move the slider next to the shutter button.
Set it to 0 to disable Night Mode for the next photo.
Or, adjust the amount of time to increase or decrease the light Night Mode captures. (The larger the number of seconds, the more light it will capture. The lower the number, the darker the image as it receives less light.)

You'll need to practice a bit more to feel comfortable adjusting and learning how to set the Night Mode. Practice makes perfect, as they say!

Deep Fusion

There isn't an actual Deep Fusion setting or toggle. Deep Fusion is a new technology built-in as a default.

The trick is to have the Photo Capture Outside the Frame turned off. If it is turned on, your phone continues to take photos that you can zoom out, but it turns off Deep Fusion.

Another must-have for Deep Fusion to work is using the standard 1x camera.

We hope these short tutorials come in handy. It's always fun getting to explore ways to use the new technologies and advancements on a phone camera. The technology is better than ever, allowing photographers to take more professional-looking pictures with mobile photography.

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