10 Additional things Your Phone Camera can Do Aside Picture Snapping

Apart from picture snapping, your phone camera can perform several functions on both Android and iOS versions of phones. But unfortunately, the majority of smartphone owners were not aware of such additional uses of phone cameras. 

From now on, after you read this article you will be acquainted with extra beneficial knowledge about what you can do more than ordinary picture snapping using your phone camera.

10 Amazing benefits of a Phone Camera

1. Languages translation

You can use your phone camera to translate words, phrases, sentences, and even notes from one language to another. This is not limited to only two languages, but it admits multilingual selection, which means you can translate from any language you want like Japanese to any other language like French.

Moreover, you can import an image from your phone and select any text you want to translate.

To use your phone camera for language translation all you have to do is to write the text you want to translate, then launch your phone camera and tap on the Google lens icon (this usually comes next to the selfy icon with red, blue, yellow, and green colors).

Navigate to translate >> tap the language selection to choose which of the language you will use>> snap the text and wait for the results.

Tips: make sure you write each word the way google can understand, and avoid typing errors.

 

You may want to read: How to use Google Assistant on your Phone

2. Image Identification

You might once see an unfamiliar object that you want to discover its entity like a strange grass, plants, food, animal creature, or anything else. You may also doubt certain grass you physically see and intended to apply it for medicinal purposes and so many different reasons. By using your phone camera you can identify any kind of image you see.

You can import the image from your phone if you already have it in your memory or snap it instantly to search in Google.

How comes? 

To do so open your phone camera >> Tap on Lens icon>> then Navigate to Search>> snap the picture or tap the image icon to import from your phone.

Once the image is captured, Google Lens will automatically search for the image and bring you the results including all the relevant information. 

Note: Make sure you have an internet connection beforehand.

3. Solving Mathematical problems

With your phone camera, you can solve and understand the most difficult parts of mathematics problems like Algebra, Calculus, Sequence, and other important topics, you just visit the Play store or apps store and install the "Photomath" application on your mobile phone.

 

4. Online shopping

When you found something very interesting but you don't know where to buy it, for example "the ancient ceramics glasses uses for home decoration", such kinds of products are very rare to be found, you can use your phone camera snap it and search for online shops where it can be found.

The procedure is the same as for Google translate. 

The shopping tab is next to the homework tab on your phone camera after clicking on the Google lens icon, navigate to the right side.

5. QR Code (Barcode) scanning using a phone camera

The Barcode is a complex and unreadable code generated to represent a particular item, it could be personal information, website data, brand information, address details, food menus in restaurants, etc. It is also available in some mobile phones applications like WhatsApp, and Xender, in addition to some web browsers like Chrome and Opera. Those codes are not readable in physical mode but in digital cameras and QR code scanners.

As time went on, the benefits of phone cameras increases day by day. Many people resort to using a QR code to facilitate access to information that is frequently used such as public WiFi and food menus in restaurants. The phone camera is the only method that can use easily to decode such QR codes because it's the only device that we carry with us everywhere. 

By pointing your phone camera to the QR code it will scan and either connect to different entities like connecting with new friends on WhatsApp or give you an explanation of what has been encoded in a particular QR code.

You may want to read: How to create a QR code using your phone [in 3 easy ways]

6. Documents Scanning 

It is one of the major benefits of phone cameras that it allows you to take a picture of your important documents and save it in Google Drive or Microsoft One Note. 

With the aid of your phone camera, you can scan your documents or anything important like your card number, your child's records, etc., and store it safely in a Google drive, or Microsoft one note for future use. To learn how to use Google drive click here I have explained in detail how to save a document in Google drive.

7. Using a phone camera to Identify the wellness of the remote control

To know whether your remote control is active or not, like a TV control, Decoder, Solar Fan, and what so ever kind of remote control just open your phone camera and point the remote toward the camera, then press any key on the remote. If it has no defaults and the battery has not been exhausted, you would see a dim grey light blink inside the remote bulb through your phone camera. This is not magic because the remote control uses infra rays which our eyes can't see but the phone cameras can detect.

8. Search for a specific food restaurant

The benefits of a phone camera for many strange people looking for a nearby restaurant are uncounted. 

If you want to find a nearby restaurant for any type of food, with the aid of your phone camera this will be simple.  

Just open your phone camera >> tap the Google Lens icon >>> navigate to dining >>> and take a sample picture of any type of food you want. 

Google lens will search for different places where you will get such dining food.

9. Using WhatsApp on a computer

This is a method of using WhatsApp on a computer. It involved using a phone camera to scan a QR code from the computer to link a mobile phone's WhatsApp to the computer-based WhatsApp web. The phone camera plays a big role in this process because it's impossible to link a WhatsApp to a computer without using a phone camera. 

Learn how to use WhatsApp and WhatsApp web on a computer. 

10. Text on Image Search

This usually applies to finding more details about a specific text in a certain product case or cover.

To do so just lunch your phone camera, Tap on the Google lens icon. 

Navigate to < text>

Then point your camera at the product cover or case that consists of the words you want to know more about. 

After you snap the picture then you have to select the actual text you want to know more about. Google will search for the relevant meaning and details of it. 

Those are not all uses of a phone camera, we only listed a few of its benefits. If you have any additional drop them in the comments section. 

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