Cable release for i-phone camera

Some selfie-sticks used to be triggered via the headset 3.5mm jack, or now tend to be triggered over bluetooth.

There are Bluetooth external shutter buttons, as supplied with 'selfie sticks' and similar. You pair them with the phone where they present as a Bluetooth keyboard that only has one button which corresponds to the shutter release keypress (Enter for Android, Volume Up for iOS). I think some of them have one button for each OS:

Most smartphones etc. have voice activated shutter activation facilities.

Google says for the Iphone To take a photo with your iPhone's camera using your voice, go to Settings > Accessibility > Voice Control and enable it. Then, you can either say "Turn up the volume" or "Turn down the volume" while the camera is open to trigger the shutter, or you can create a custom voice command for the same effect by going to Commands > Create New Command > Run Custom Gesture and recording a tap on the shutter button.

Plenty of information on Google or Youtube to set your own command to trigger the shutter release. On my Android I've set mine to take a photo when I say "shoot"

Also if not already enabled you may want to enable the shutter "click" sound to give you confidence that your spoken command has bee recognised every time.

Selfie sticks already mentioned. Some come with heads which include a tripod mount, so presumably could have the handle removed and be mounted directly on your stand, retaining the remote shutter.

Cheers

Dave R

Thanks for that. I've set it up to take a photo when I say 'click'. Seems to work up to a point, in that it looks as though it takes a photo, but then I can't find where it saves it, if it does in fact it does take a photo or save it. It's certainly not in the usual photo storage area. Any suggestions? Should I have opened anything before I use the voice activation, like Siri, that sort of thing?

Saves it in the Photos app. Does here anyway (12 Mini, latest OS).

When you photo's taken, a mini-preview should appear bottom left. Tap that and it should open in Photos. Should.

On my android phone I have an optional large sd card. The phone's internal memory has a DCIM directory with various photo sub directories The SD card also has a DCIM directory with various photo sub directories.

The two DCIM directories(folders) are completely separate. I have to navigate to the SD card to see most of my photos. I sure some time ago I set up the default location for photos taken by my smart phone to the sd card

They do Bluetooth remote triggers.

As I can't seem to get the voice command to work properly, I'll try one. Cheap as chips anyway!

And do you need actual photos ?.

I use Microsoft Lens to take copies of articles in the Librarys copies of Investors Chronicle and Which Gardening and create PDF's to copy to my main PC.

They occupy less space.

That's what I was going to do, but unfortunately MS withdrew MS Lens last month, so not available any more, and support is being withdrawn in November I think.

Can you not scan them instead?

Long story and worth thinking about, but in a word, 'no'

Now up and running just as I want. Actually better than a voice command because I don't have to keep saying 'snap' or whatever, and disturbing others who may be working nearby.

Interesting. Thanks.

Hands Free Shutter Control for Mobile Devices, £3.99 -

Is there anything here you think you could use?