While many other phone brands leave selfies taken using the front camera as they are, the iPhone flips the photos in the opposite way and saves them to the camera roll.
“Do I really look like this from the outside?” Of course, there are some reasons behind this feature.
Using your iPhone, photos you take from other apps like SnapChat or Instagram stay the same, while the phone’s own camera app translates the images.
A photo you take with the rear camera gives the same result as it looks when you look at it from the front. Since a head tilted to the right remains on the left for a person standing in front of you, the camera also takes a shot according to the opposite view.
Things are different with the front camera. The camera lens and the position from which you are looking at it remain opposite each other.
There are two options. Either the photo will be the way the user sees himself in the mirror, as he is used to, or the way others see him from the outside. Obviously, Apple chose the first option. Therefore, as soon as you take the photo, it saves the rotated version of the photo in your gallery using the “mirror image” feature.
The photo that seems upside down to you is actually straight.
This means that the photo you see in the camera roll exactly matches how you looked when you took the photo, not what the camera app is showing. It may seem strange at first, but once you realize this, you’ll realize that your photo isn’t actually inverted.
If you are uncomfortable with this situation, you can turn off the mirror image feature.
Steps:
Settings > Camera > Mirror Front Camera
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