How to quickly open your smartphone camera (on any model)

Do you want to capture instant photos on your smartphone…

…but you just can't open your smartphone camera fast enough?

This is a common problem in smartphone photography. The moment you get through the lock screen and open the camera app, your amazing photo opportunity is gone.

But here's the thing:

Every smartphone has ways to “quick launch” the camera. And by using this quick launch feature, you can virtually guarantee that you won't miss your future shots.

So, in this article, I will share with you methods to quickly launch the smartphone camera. I will explain the technique of a number of popular smartphones, so that the next time you go out, you can succeed every snapshot you take.

It sounds good?

Let's dive into it.

How to Quickly Access Your Smartphone's Camera: Table of Contents

Quickly access the camera on your Google Pixel

Quickly access the camera on your iPhone

Quickly access the camera on your Huawei smartphone

Quickly access the camera on your Samsung smartphone

1. Quickly access the camera on your Google Pixel

If you have a Google Pixel (any model), there's a super easy way to open your camera:

Simply press the power/lock button twice.

No matter where you are on your Pixel, the camera will open immediately.

And you'll be ready to take amazing photos.

If this setting isn't working on your Pixel, you may need to do a bit of setup.

Faucet

Settings

, so

System

, and finally

Languages and input

.From here you will see the option to enable

Go to camera

.And you will be ready.

It's also worth noting that you can quickly switch between the front and rear camera on your Pixel. Once the camera is open, just double twist your wrist and watch the cameras switch!

I will also mention an additional option:

If you're using your Pixel, you can still access the

Camera

icon in your bookmarks bar. This will give you quick access to the Camera app whenever you are on the home screen.

2. Quickly access the camera on your iPhone

All relatively newer iPhones have a method to quickly launch your camera from the lock screen:

Simply swipe from right to left.

Then your camera will open, ready for action!

However, while you can take photos, you won't be able to access your photo library. To access old pictures, you must first unlock your iPhone and then open the camera.

A way to quickly access the camera from the home screen:

Place the camera icon in the dock (i.e. the featured menu at the bottom of the home screen). This way you can just tap on the home screen and-

so !

–the camera will open.

To put your iPhone camera in the dock, hold any icon. All the icons will start shaking. Then drag the camera icon into the dock. Finally, press the Home button to turn off the icons trembling.

Finally, here is a third method to quickly launch the iPhone camera:

On iPhone XS and XS Max

, swipe down from the top right corner of the screen. This will bring up the control center (it doesn't matter what screen you are in). From the control center, you can just tap the camera icon .

How to quickly open your smartphone camera (on any model)

On older iPhones

, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. This will bring up the control center from any previous screen and then you can tap the camera icon.

3. Quickly access the camera of your Huawei smartphone

Huawei has a feature unique to all smartphone brands on this list:

You can both quickly launch the camera

and

to take a picture.

However, you can only do this when the phone is off and you're not using an app that works with volume controls (like Spotify).

To quickly launch the camera and take a photo, simply

double press the volume down button

This will take a photo of whatever you point your Huawei camera at. And as soon as the camera opens, you'll be ready to take additional photos.

If you are unable to launch the camera with this shortcut, you will probably need to enable the feature in your camera menu.