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 now capable to quickly entree the advanced camera app straight from their phone’s lockscreen without having to unlock it first. Previously, only the autochthonal iOS camera app could beryllium conveniently accessed that way.

Although Halide offers precocious features for illustration 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 lockscreen shortcut. Halide could beryllium made accessible done a lockscreen widget, but really getting into the third-party camera app required an iPhone to beryllium unlocked utilizing Face ID, Touch ID, aliases by entering a passcode.

With iOS 18 and the caller Halide 2.16 update installed, iPhone users tin switch either the default camera aliases flashlight shortcut pinch 1 that instantly launches Halide without unlocking. After long-pressing connected the iPhone’s lockscreen, you pat the “Customize” fastener and past pat the lockscreen again. You’ll past beryllium fixed the action to region either the default flashlight aliases camera shortcut and past switch it by pressing the “+” that’s near behind. Other options see default iPhone apps for illustration the calculator aliases magnifier, but successful the Capture section, Halide will now 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, aliases arsenic a one-time acquisition of $59.99.