Halide’s advanced camera app is now as easy to launch as Apple’s

Halide users who’ve upgraded their iPhones to iOS 18 are present capable to rapidly entree the advanced camera app straight from their phone’s fastener surface without having to unlock it first. Previously, lone the autochthonal iOS camera app could beryllium conveniently accessed that way.

Although Halide offers precocious features similar manual shutter velocity adjustments and a “Process Zero” option that delivers images without immoderate AI processing, accessing Apple’s camera app was ever faster, acknowledgment to its fastener surface shortcut. Halide could beryllium made accessible done a fastener surface widget, but really getting into the third-party camera app inactive required an iPhone to beryllium archetypal unlocked utilizing FaceID, TouchID, oregon entering a passcode.

With iOS 18 and the caller Halide 2.16 update installed, iPhone users tin regenerate either the default camera oregon flashlight shortcut with 1 that instantly launches Halide without unlocking. After agelong pressing connected the iPhone’s fastener screen, you pat the “Customize” fastener and past pat the fastener surface again. You’ll past beryllium fixed the enactment to region either the default flashlight oregon camera shortcut, and past regenerate it, by pressing the ‘+’ that’s near behind. Other options see default iPhone apps similar the calculator oregon magnifier, but successful the Capture conception Halide volition present beryllium listed.

However, dissimilar the default iPhone camera app, Halide isn’t free. It’s disposable for a monthly subscription of $2.99, a cheaper yearly subscription of $19.99, oregon arsenic a one-time acquisition for $59.99.