iPhone 11 Pro flash modes missing

Totally agree. This is one of those terrible "over engineered" decisions and should never have made it past the basic draft phase before someone pointed out how you are taking someone from one gesture/press to 4.

I’ve been a photographer for nearly 50 years & don’t need Apple telling me when I should use a flash... There are times the sun is behind my subject & I need the flash to “fill” the face/object. The method Snow1975 suggested is helpful but only sets the flash to ‘auto’’ or ‘off’... I want “force flash” back at the top as a choice, as it USED to be - right out in the open, 1 click, easy to do. For no reason, Apple has hidden it now! 😞 (They did the same silly “let’s hide stuff and add more steps” thing with the choices at the bottom of ‘Mail’ but reverted back to the far better system - more apparent choices - with the last software update.) PLEASE APPLE - fix this hidden “force flash” issue in the camera app too!!

Also, I would like a simple “1 tap” method right at the top, in the open, to turn night mode off. My husband installs motion sensor lighting & I want to show people how bright the lights are at night but it’s impossible to do it accurately since night mode makes every picture I take at night look like it was shot mid-day! 😏

Tinammm, previously i mentioned in here thats its there but unnecessarily hidden out of the way. When in the camera app, swipe up on the tray where the camera modes are (right above the record button) and it will reveal the flash menu where you can force it on.

Also: turns out it doesn't matter where you swipe up. You can swipe up in the middle of the screen if you wish, it doesnt have to be close to the shutter button, just as long as you’re not in the bottom section below the camera modes. I didn’t experiment with that when I found this haha.

This is so typical of Apple now. Take something everyone is familiar with and screw it up for no gain whatsoever in utility. The flash icon upper left toggles between auto and off only. If you use the new second tier menu at the bottom to turn flash on, then return to picture taking and use the upper left icon to toggle off/on, the flash is set to auto, not returned to On as you set prior. Why? Oh, some bossy know it all in apple design decided that is how you should use your camera. So they showed us who’s boss. Yup, you can have what you want with extra wasteful steps, but if you want convenient ease of use you have to use the camera they way the little designer thinks is best.

Yep... it seems like they were attempting to make the use of flash more automatic so you don’t have to set it on for it to work, but at the same time, there’s situations (especially on video) were you want to just set it on, and adding the somewhat obscure menu wasn’t the cleanest approach. I think being able to toggle through Auto, Off, AND On through the button in the top left was the best move. Maybe they’ll change it in a future update!

I have same exact problem . I’m trying to take photos in my attic of water leak and the **** flash won’t go off . It keeps going to that low light mode . I don’t want low light mode . I need the dang flash to illuminate so I can document my damage . Not a happy camper

Overly engineered feature layout... it probably works, it’s hidden. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250686257?answerId=252200204022#252200204022

Which is the Camera Controls button?

After searching everywhere, your answer did it for my 11 pro! Thanks

Thank you that was really helpful

Thx for the info

My phone is brand new and up to date. And the flash still won’t work.

That worked! Thank you!!!

The arrow in on top center. It’s very faint but it does work