Dirty lens? This iOS 26 Beta feature can help you take better pictures

Children have sticky fingers. If they touch your iPhone, expect spots on your camera’s lens. This means that the next time you are taking a picture, the image can have a strange haze about it and you will have to take a photo multiple times. It’s not always always guilty of your children. Even adults can be guilty of a dirty camera lens. Fortunately, with iOS 26 beta There is a function that can warn you when your lens camera needs cleaning, you do not spend the perfectly good sunset or other installation moment.

Apple has posted the fifth public beta version iOS 26 25. August. Update brought new Fluent glass Design, Screening calls and more Iphones developer and beta saw. Beta also introduced a characteristic that is easily overlooked called lens cleaning hints. When this feature is enabled, your iPhone will display a warning that your lens should be cleaned.

This feature is automatically enabled for me after I download IOS 26 beta, but here is where to find it in case it is not included for you. It is important to note that this feature is only available at iPhone 15 and later models, so if you have iPhone 14 Pro, You will not see this option.

And don’t forget, IOS 26 is still in beta. This means that the update could be buggets for you, and the battery of your device can be negatively affected, so it is best to keep those problems with your primary device. If you want to try the beta version, I recommend that you download it on the secondary device.

It is also possible that Apple could adapt the lens cleaning hints and other update characteristics before IOS 26 is published this autumn version I anticipate in the next few weeks.

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How to enable lens cleaning hints

1. Touch Settings.
2. Touch Camera.
3. Tap on Lens cleaning tips Switch near the bottom of the menu.

Once enabled, the camera of your iPhone will recognize if the lens is smeared and your device will tell you to clean it to improve image quality. It’s a nice way to make sure you always get a good picture and it could be helpful if you let your kids play with your phone, leaving spaces.

For more IOS news, here they are My first impressions of Beta Version IOS 26How to enable Screening calls into beta and everything New features Apple said it would bring you your device later this year. Can get an early view of the upcoming iPhone traits with our IOS 26 Cheat Sheet.

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