Viewing Photos and Videos

Photos and videos (Mac only) synced from your computer’s photo application can be viewed in Photos. You can also view the photos and videos (iPhone 3GS only) you’ve taken with iPhone’s built-in camera or saved from an email or MMS message (iPhone 3GS only).

View photos and videos: 

  1. In Photos, tap a photo album.

  2. Tap a thumbnail to see the photo or video in full screen.

Show or hide the controls: 

Tap the full-screen photo or video to show the controls. Tap again to hide the controls.

Play a video: 

Tap Play icon in the center of the screen.

To replay a video, tap Play icon at the bottom of the screen. If you don’t see Play icon, tap the screen to show the controls.

View a photo or video in landscape orientation: 

Rotate iPhone sideways. The photo or video reorients automatically and, if it’s in landscape format, expands to fit the screen.

iPhone in the vertical position with a photo shown in portrait orientation. To the right is iPhone in the horizontal position showing the same photo, expanded in landscape orientation.

Zoom in on part of a photo: 

Double-tap where you want to zoom in. Double-tap again to zoom out. You can also pinch to zoom in or out.

A hand with the forefinger and thumb pinched together (as indicated by inward pointing arrows) to zoom out (or make smaller) a photo.

View video in full screen, or fit video to screen: 

Double tap the screen to scale the video to fill the screen. Double-tap again to fit the video to the screen.

Pan around a photo: 

Drag the photo.

See the next or previous photo or video: 

Flick left or right. Or tap the screen to show the controls, then tap Right arrow or Left arrow.

A hand with the forefinger flicking left (as indicated by a left arrow) to scroll through photos.