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Does Open Camera not show the switch multi-camera button on your phone? From https://opencamera.org.uk/help.html https://opencamera.org.uk/help.html Switch mul
by Zak 5y ago
Does Open Camera not show the switch multi-camera button on your phone? From https://opencamera.org.uk/help.html https://opencamera.org.uk/help.html
Switch multi-camera icon - This icon only shows on devices with more than one front and/or back cameras, and allows you to switch between those cameras. For example, a device might have two back cameras, one standard and one ultra-wide, this icon will switch between the standard and ultra-wide camera. If Settings/On screen GUI/"Multiple cameras icon" is disabled, then this icon will not show; instead the "Switch camera" icon can by used to cycle through all the cameras. Note that some devices do not allow third party applications to access their multiple cameras, in which case Open Camera isn't able to use them.
- user_7832 5y agoNot the person you were replying to but I also have a Pixel 5 (still on Android 11). I didn't realize it until the previous comment but I also cannot access the wide angle camera. The button simply doesn't exist. Other 3rd party apps like Lightroom also couldn't find the 2nd camera. But a gcam mod finds it unsurprisingly. To answer op's grievance though the wide angle is fixed focus, so they could use gcam for the wide angle and open camera for the regular lens.
- rurp 5y agoUnfortunately I don't have that option in the settings and cycling the cameras does not work. It sounds like the last sentence you quoted applies in my case; Google explicitly blocks Open Camera (and all other 3rd party apps) from accessing the wide angle lense. Jesus this is annoying, and really scummy on Google's part. As long as I have this phone I'll have to swap between multiple camera apps just to access basic functionality.