Flashlight and camera simultaneously??

Try switching to VIDEO mode and turning on the light (flash).

I agree that this is very irritating.

I have a iphone 6 and would like to use the torch and the camera together as I was used to doing with Android.

Taking a video is not the same a taking a photo, or as using the torch/magnification functionality so that is not really a solution.

In the two years since 2015, has anyone got an answer?

Flagra Nightwalker wrote:

I was messing

with my camera settings and discovered if you switch the bottom preset to video, (swipe left until the white word says video on the bottom) And then tap the lightning bolt and then tap auto.

Yes, that was what RayG2261 suggested over two years ago. At least one person didn't find it satisfactory. In the intervening two years, Apple has added a Magnifier option in the Control Center that probably would do what the OP wanted, assuming, of course, that after two years, they haven't found an alternative solution.

sbrookes wrote:

I agree that this is very irritating.

I have a iphone 6 and would like to use the torch and the camera together as I was used to doing with Android.

Taking a video is not the same a taking a photo, or as using the torch/magnification functionality so that is not really a solution.

In the two years since 2015, has anyone got an answer?

I'm pretty certain the answer is still "no, you can't do that". Sorry.

I was messing

with my camera settings and discovered if you switch the bottom preset to video, (swipe left until the white word says video on the bottom) And then tap the lightning bolt and then tap auto.

Yllib1975 wrote:

Does that mean I have to go back to the note 4?

You might check to see if one of the third party magnifying apps does what you need.