How to Take a Photo While Recording a Video on iPhone

How to take a photo while recording video on iPhone? Sometimes you may accidentally switch to Video mode when you want to take a photo. If you couldn’t take a photo in the first place, you can take a snapshot of the video or take a frame or photo from the video. Is there a faster or easier way other than that? yes there is. Another hidden feature of the Camera app on iPhone that is overlooked by many users is that it supports capturing images while recording. This means that you can actually take a photo when a video is recorded without the need to switch to photo capture mode. In this quick guide, we will show you how to take a photo while recording a video on iPhone at the same time.

How to Take a Photo While Recording a Video on iPhone

Launch the default Camera app on the iPhone. Switch from Photo mode to Video mode at the bottom of the screen. Point your camera at the video you want to capture and press the Record button at the bottom center to start capturing the video. In the bottom left corner, you can see the photo capture button.If you want to take a photo during the video recording process, tap the shutter button. This will not disturb the video recording. You can press the shutter button many times to take multiple photos while recording video on iPhone. See screenshot.

Capture image while recording Snapshot video with iPhone

If you make a snapshot in the video, you can extract the photo frame from the video, the snapshot or picture can be shown in the same resolution as the source video without any loss of quality. For example, if the width and height of the video is 1280720px, the extracted picture will also come out as 1280720px.If you make a snapshot in the video, you can extract the photo frame from the video, the snapshot or picture can be shown in the same resolution as the source video without any loss of quality. For example, if the width and height of the video is 1280*720px, the extracted picture will also come out as 1280*720px.

When recording an HD 720p video or Full HD 1080p video the recorded images will be saved at 1980*3520px resolution on the iPhone 8 Plus.When a higher video resolution is set to 4K in the camera settings, the photos will be taken at a higher resolution of 2160*3840px with better quality. The image quality is good enough for amateurs. However, you still can’t compare them to photos taken in Photo mode.

In addition to the new HEIC format on iPhone, the image captured in the video recording process is also saved as a JPG file format.

Now I tried to tell you how to take photos and record videos at the same time on iPhone at the same time, I hope it was an explanatory article. How do you take photos while recording video on iPhone? Don’t forget to write to us using the comment field.