If it's dark and you need a flashlight, don't fumble through your cupboards, just reach for your iPhone!
The iPhone is the ultimate modern convergence device, seamlessly combining telephone, music player, and internet communicator all into one. Thanks to Control Center and the LED flash, however, the iPhone is only ever a swipe away from being something more — a flashlight! From kitchen to bedroom to car to studio to server room, your iPhone as a flashlight isn't just convenient, it can be a life-saver.
How to turn on your iPhone flashlight.
- Swipe up from the bottom bezel of your iPhone to bring up Control Center.
- Tap the Flashlight button at the bottom left.
- Point the LED flash on the back of your iPhone at whatever you want to light up.
To turn off the LED flashlight, simply repeat the same process again.
Reader comments
How to instantly turn your iPhone into a flashlight
It would be nice if you could adjust the brightness like the Flashlight app is able to do.
I think that was done on purpose by Apple. They wanted the functionality to be simple and just one button and at the same time, not drive all the flashlight app makers out of business.
how can i use the flashlight for fill light when using my camera?
OOH! Here's my pro-tip that I've had in my back pocket all beta:
To turn off the flashlight from the lockscreen, instead of activating control center again and hitting the flashlight toggle, just nudge the camera icon. Not enough to activate the camera, but just enough to get the lockscreen to bounce. Shuts the flashlight off :)
Clever, clever :-D
Thanks so much for that tip ericesque. I've been walking around all day with the flashlight shining out of my bag. lol!
How things have changed. I remember WAY back in the day when Apple *wouldn't allow* a flashlight to be in the App Store. And now they're the ones providing it.
I am extremely happy Apple included a flashlight. Now I can finally ditch that Flashlight app that I have been using... That beast was killing me with the ads! It was a 12.4 MB app that turned on and turned off, yet because of all the ad data it was pulling onto my phone, the Documents and Data for that app was 26.2 MB.
Goodbye chump flashlight app!
Woohoo!!
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Good basic flashlight app but no red screen for light at night that doesn't spoil night vision such as when doing astronomy
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Flashlight is all good but I wish they would have put Location Services on their instead of Portrait Lock. You can't even turn it on with Siri. I have to fumble turning my GPS on while I'm at at light because I only turn the GPS on when I need it and when I need it is usually when I'm on the road!
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If you tell Siri to take you there.... It's voice guided as well as vocal turn by turn guidance. Hope this helps.
I can't consistently get the Control Center to slide up from the Lock screen or Home screen. It works once after powering on the phone, then doesn't work at all after that.
Is this a case of a buggy phone or a buggy function in the new iOS?
Me too! Takes me 8 tries to get the Control Center up. No problem pulling the notification center down.
Does anyone know how to turn on the flashlight using siri? I can't seem to make it work. Ios7 on iPhone 5
I don't know but I came here looking for the exact same thing!
Saaame! I feel like with the next update Apple should catch this flaw. I asked Siri to turn on flashlight and responded with Sorry, I can't do that.
Why can't I find a flash light
Swipe up from the bottom... You'll see an icon for the flashlight.
I used my QR reader and now I Can't turn on the flashlight. It's grayed out. Help please.