Apple will launch its iOS 18 working system for the iPhone subsequent week, and customers of the iPhone’s built-in Digicam app will discover two new helpful options after they improve.
Pause within the Center of Video Recording
The iOS 18 Launch Candidate arrived for builders and public beta testers earlier this week, and with it comes a brand new function within the Digicam app that may can help you pause whereas recording a video after which resume recording with a fast faucet of an on-screen button.
This lets you seize a number of pictures in a single video slightly than being required to begin a brand new video every time. The function will enable customers to document a number of scenes on their iPhones with out stitching scenes collectively from a number of movies.
Whereas recording a video in your iPhone in iOS 18, a brand new pause button seems on the left or proper facet of the display screen (relying on the way you’re holding your iPhone). As you would possibly count on, tapping the pause button pauses the recording whereas urgent the button once more resumes it. The video can nonetheless be stopped at any time by tapping the center cease recording button.
Whereas Apple has but to verify this, the brand new pause and document video function can possible even be managed by the brand new iPhone 16 lineup’s Digicam Management button.
Video Pace Management within the Images App
The Images app within the iOS 18 Launch Candidate provides a brand new video velocity management choice, which lets you change the body charge of your movies after they’re recorded.
Whereas Apple talked about the choice to vary video velocity in post-processing whereas exhibiting off the brand new iPhone 16 fashions throughout Monday’s occasion, the function can also be obtainable for older iPhones operating iOS 18 (It labored nice on my historical iPhone 13 Professional Max.)
The Playback Pace editor can be utilized to regulate the playback velocity of excessive body charge movies. The app gives 240, 120, 60, 48, 30, and 24 frames per second choices to select from.
Whereas the app has lengthy supplied a way of adjusting the velocity of parts of slow-motion movies, Playback Pace is a separate function. When you open the video’s modifying interface, you’ll have to faucet on the timer icon within the higher right-hand nook of the display screen.
Apple’s new iPhone 16 Professional fashions help recording 4K video at 120 frames per second (fps) in Slo-mo and Normal Video modes. The Playback Pace function can then be used to make fps changes when modifying a video.
The brand new Images app has a quarter-speed playback and a brand new half-speed choice that Apple says provides a “great, dreamy impact.” It’s also possible to carry the video body charge again to regular velocity. A 1/5 velocity choice gives 24 fps playback.
iOS 18 might be launched to the general public on Monday, September 16. The brand new iPhone 16 fashions will hit retailer cabinets on Friday, September 20. Pre-orders will start this Friday, September 13, at 5:00 a.m. Pacific Time (8:00 a.m. Japanese Time).