{"id":300587,"date":"2025-11-19T05:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300587\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T05:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T05:48:14","slug":"iphone-lock-screen-mirror-feature-lets-you-quickly-check-your-hair-teeth-without-opening-the-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/300587\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone \u2018Lock Screen Mirror\u2019 feature lets you quickly check your hair\/teeth without opening the camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Never have I seen something so audaciously brilliant I actually summon a CEO to help make it a reality but Tim Cook\u2026 if you\u2019re reading this, this lock-screen mirror definitely needs to ship on the next iOS build. Put together by Jakub Zegzulka, an ex-Apple, Meta, and OpenAI fellow, this tiny little feature is perhaps more important than FaceID itself!<\/p>\n

How many times have you stepped out for a meeting with friends or for an interview, having no idea what you look like\u2026 or whether you\u2019ve got food stuck in your teeth? You unlock your phone, open the camera app, and flip to the front-facing camera to do a quick vibe-check. It\u2019s a 3-step process that absolutely doesn\u2019t need to be a 3-step process. Instead, Zegzulka\u2019s solution involves just long-pressing on the camera icon on the bottom right of your lock screen. That brings up a tiny window emerging off the dynamic island, giving you a quick preview of yourself. You can check your hair, fix your make-up, adjust your specs, run your tongue across your teeth, or just quickly check out that annoying zit that appeared at the wrong place and wrong time.<\/p>\n

Designer: Jakub Zegzulka<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Zegzulka didn\u2019t outline much, except a quick video demo of this feature on Threads<\/a>. Although that was enough to gather nearly 2K likes in just over a day. The Lock Screen Mirror isn\u2019t an app. It\u2019s just a quick interaction that lets you open the camera\u2019s viewfinder right on your lock screen for checking your appearance. The tiny circular window is almost exactly the size of a make-up mirror, and the feature is legitimately handy, even for me as a guy who has fairly curly hair that needs to just be ruffled before I step out.<\/p>\n

Heck, imagine going an entire hour on a date with spinach stuck in your teeth and them being polite enough to not point out. Instead, you just do a quick check, get that pesky piece of green stuck on your pearly whites, and you\u2019re good to go. It\u2019s such a tiny-yet-life-enhancing feature that Apple could totally ship with their next build. You\u2019re NOT opening your camera app with this lock screen mirror function, just a preview. You could drag your finger up and have the app open like it traditionally does, but a feature like this would probably eliminate the need to, if all you need to do is see if you look good right before you meet your friends, your future boss, or the potential love of your life.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Never have I seen something so audaciously brilliant I actually summon a CEO to help make it a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-300587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}