How to take a selfie with Voice Control on iPhone and iPad | Apple Support

With Voice Control turned on, you can speak commands for your iPhone or iPad, instead of touching the screen or pressing buttons. Here’s how to take a selfie.

Selfie participants: Ian Mackay, Brook McCall, Dave Pierson, Rhonel Cinous, Kenny Salvini, Wes Holloway, Daniel Castagnino, and Michele Lee

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[deebrake]

How do you turn off show names for voice control

[argee]

Thanks for the video. My wife was asking last night if she could use voice control for taking selfies.

[Oleg__]

This is much easier on many smartphones on another OS, and you don't have to specifically activate voice control and then disable it. There it all works in the camera by default, and it is possible to do it by saying different words from the provided set. And it worked quickly, without the Internet, in my language. But on the iPhone, it didn't work in my language. Also, the smartphone was getting warm.

And also many smartphones on another OS have always had a pause button during video recording.

[tamisuyadi]

i did try it and it worked well, but now i dont know how to stop the name showing, can anyone help?

[serene]

Too bad there's no direct way to ACTIVATE the VIDEO recording in the camera app.

I had to manually switch to "video", and THEN say "tap take picture" or "cheese" to get video recording to activate. And then there's no way to stop the video recording by voice control. I guess maybe this lack of direct video activation support is for security reasons...? Kind of inconvenient.

[prashanthrajkrishna]

Wehn i use the font camera to take photos there are a lot of purple dots appearing. How to fix this?

[granturismoKL]

By activating this, does it consume battery?

[broteinsheikh]

Hey apple support does your company still make the ipad air?

[Toyotaboi]

Fix the problem with the iPhone 8 that the home button does something weird and it randomly turns on assistive touch

[balubalaji]

can i use this to switch lens while recroding

[Santhosh-iqgc]

Hi bro I am using an iPhone 14 plus how to take a long screen shot?

[RoldlordRold]

now how to hide the show names, it keeps appearing even on other apps

[sheilacrittin]

Mine won’t activate - unless I use Siri. You aren’t using Siri so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

[Paeghamekarbala]

Hi there everyone....my iPhone 11 pro is not installing any system's update....a pop-up message appears reading"error" despite having good internet connection. Is it because of the reason I've not locked my phone either by face lock or numerics....your positive response is highly appreciated....thank you😊

[wantbk]

Mine doesn’t work. And I bet it is because the vid skips steps/set ups assuming you know what you should do in between.

[Just.Elektra]

Hey Apple!
I’m just wondering if you could help me out with this?
Every time I try to buy something with my iTunes gift card it doesn’t let me it comes up with PayPal or credit cards some stuff like that but I don’t wanna use it. So I press back and it has my iTunes balance and it only has edit and if I press on the picture of the card at the top it says done when I press done it doesn’t buy anything and it’s just not working
(by the way I am on iPad and I’ve got 40 in my balance and I just bought it like a couple weeks ago)

[Astmens]

can’t watch this video without camera opening at “Open Camera” command 😅

[TerrySitu]

Why so complicated? Why not just learn the owners' voices and let owners say: take a selfie?

[twh]

Apple Support is the BEST OEM as far as standing by their products! Never dissapointed with Apple.

[RonaldBrown]

Great information, and thanks for sharing.