Instructions for displaying control icons in iPhone Camera

The iPhone Camera app has been completely redesigned in iOS 26. Among these changes, the most notable is the new pop-up menu that brings together all the controls like Flash, Live, Timer, Exposure, Styles, Filter, Aspect, and Night Mode in one place. To display the control icons in the iPhone Camera, you need to manually enable them according to the article below.

How to display control icons in iPhone Camera

The Camera interface on iOS without all the icons is as below. When you click on the icon frame, all the shooting modes will be displayed.

Step 1:

You access Settings on iPhone then click on Camera to adjust. Display the list of settings for the camera on iPhone, you scroll down to the Indicator section to adjust the display mode of the condition icon in the camera.

Step 2:

Here, enable the Flash icon and Live Photo icon to display the control icons in the iPhone photography interface.

Step 3:

You can also enable Grid display or other customizations on the photo and video capture interface if you want.

Go back to the iPhone's photo capture interface and you will see the control icons as shown below. We can easily change the shooting mode or record video through these icons.

Kareem Winters

Update 24 September 2025