Samsung launched the Camera Assistant app final 12 months as a part of its Good Lock collection of modules, permitting Galaxy homeowners to regulate much more settings of their cellphone’s digital camera app. These choices embody toggles for smoothing, computerized HDR, lens switching, and extra.

Maybe probably the most notable new characteristic is a quick-tap shutter possibility, permitting you to take a photograph if you first press the shutter key slightly than when the shutter button is launched. Enabling this characteristic additionally adjustments the shutter key’s habits when it’s held, first taking pictures a photograph after which taking pictures both a GIF, video, or picture burst.

One other new addition within the Digicam Assistant replace is the choice to dim the display whereas recording, being a useful option to save battery life. Customers are capable of set the show to dim after a minute, two minutes, 5 minutes, or 10 minutes of recording with out touching the display.

What else to anticipate from up to date Digicam Assistant?

There are additionally a number of tweaks to present options, beginning with the smoothing/softening toggle. That is now a three-stage setting (off/medium/excessive) as an alternative of a easy on/off toggle. The corporate supplied an instance of the impact, exhibiting various ranges of sharpness. Test it out beneath.

The Sooner Shutter possibility has additionally been tweaked, permitting you to now select totally different choices for taking pictures regular decision or excessive decision footage. When taking pictures at regular decision, you may select between high quality precedence (slower however top quality), a balanced possibility, and velocity precedence (sooner taking pictures on the expense of high quality). In the meantime, taking pictures at excessive decision solely delivers high quality precedence and velocity precedence choices.

Lastly, Samsung has adjusted the timer performance, now letting you select a taking pictures interval (e.g. taking pictures each 1.5 seconds, two seconds, 2.5 seconds, or each three seconds.

The Korean model additionally used to the submit to notice that the Samsung Digicam Assistant will now be out there on the Galaxy S20 collection and later, Galaxy Word 20 vary, Galaxy Z Fold 2 and later, and Galaxy Z Flip 3 and later. This replace requires the One UI 5.1 replace although, which is presently being pushed out to a host of devices.