Swipe down until you see 'Shooting Methods' and make sure 'Show palm' is toggled on. If it doesn’t work, open the settings menu in the camera app by tapping the cog icon in the corner. It’ll automatically start a countdown and take a selfie.

Simply open the camera app, choose your front facing camera and then rest the phone down with the camera facing you.Īdjust the angle of the screen until you’re framed and now all you need to do is show the palm of your hand to the camera. One of the cool things about having a flexible flip phone is that you can get it to sit up and take a hands-free selfie. Now when you wake up your cover screen it’ll show your chosen image, and if you’ve chosen more than one it will cycle through them each time you wake it up. When you have the images you want, you can pinch to zoom and frame them the way you want and save it. In fact, you can choose up to 15 of them. Now you can choose any picture from your own gallery. To choose your own photo, choose the clock style you want - one that hasn’t got its own animated image - then tap 'Background Image' and select 'Choose from Gallery' from the pop-up window. Some of them have their own animated graphic, but the simpler ones let you choose an image to display behind the clock. If you head to Settings > Cover screen > Clock style it lets you choose between a 11 different styles. This year’s Cover Screen is much more useful than the previous version, and it’s full colour too. Use your photos as a Cover Screen wallpaper To switch between the ultra wide and primary camera, swipe up or down. If you want to shoot a video, you just swipe left or right until it says 'video'. Once you’ve launched the camera, you take a picture by just tapping the screen, and you’ll see a little countdown clock giving you time to frame yourself before it shoots the photo. Make sure 'Double press' is switched on and that 'Quick launch camera' is selected from the list.

If it doesn’t, go to Settings > Advanced features and tap 'Side Key'. To do it - with the phone closed - just press the sleep/lock button on the side twice quickly and it should automatically launch the camera. If only because it means you’re using the better quality cameras on the outside, rather than the poorer selfie camera cut into the main display. 1 - Use the cover display as a camera monitorĪrguably the most useful feature of the little Cover Screen on the front of the phone is being able to use it as a monitor for the cameras to take selfies with.

Instructions for flip video camera