How to use iPhone x lock screen flashlight and camera?

If you have an iPhone X while the phone is off, tap the screen to turn the locked screen on, and all you do is touch the flashlight button or the camera button and then push it, then increase your pressure just as you were pushing a button/switch on. You will feel it click on.

With the flashlight you can actually push/click the button on and then off. It’s very cool and you can feel the clicking under your finger just like a mechanical button.

My apologies. Do this:

Put your finger on the icon until it swells and then just remove your finger. Don't swipe, just take your finger off and the camera or flashlight will open.

martinp13 wrote:

OK, I'm missing something. My lock screen doesn't have any icons at the bottom of it. Do I have to enable a setting to make them show up?

Go to Settings/ General/ Accessibility/ 3D Touch and turn it ON, then you should see them.

deanger wrote:

You have to hold the flashlight button a LONG time. Just keep holding it for at least 5 full seconds. Longer than seems right.

Nope. Duration isn't the trick. Pressure is the trick. I can turn on the camera or the flashlight in less than a second with a firm push on the icons.

Rdrr68 wrote:

Wrong. !!

Just push harder, like a push button, not a touchscreen. It pops right ON.

Did you bother to read what I said?? When I said pressure, I'm saying push harder. And I also said it comes on right away with more pressure. We're really saying the very same thing.

It uses the 3D Touch feature which basically responds to the amount of pressure you give to press the icon. This seems to work by how much of your thumb touches the screen. So when u press with more force, obviously more surface area of your thumb is in contact with the screen.

Press down on the icons like a button until you feel your phone vibrate then they will startup. You can't just press them until they swell, you have to actually press them down like a button to get them to work from the locked screen on the iPhone X.

All of the answers to this are still not working? Click until it swells? I’ve done that??? Nothing.... I’ve clicked until it swells and pressed volume and power button... still nothing? Help me understand!!!

Hi Gingersnaps11, I couldn't work it out either. I had asked the wonderful community and everyone was so helpful but admit I still had trouble LOL. Seeing your comment I just tried again and it worked for me by: holding finger down until the camera or flashlight swells, then just quickly lifting my finger off & to my own surprise it worked. Good luck :-)

Exactly! Press down on it like a button and release. The confusion is that it's not at all intuitive based on anyone's history with the iPhone. It's NOT swipe, it's NOT press and continue to press, it's simply press down and let go. I don't know why yours is the first response I've seen to this question that is accurate but it is.

Thanks!

Put your finger on the icons and you'll see them swell a bit. Keep your finger on them and drag them up.

I was having the same issue. But I figured it out. You apply pressure to it like clicking a button; no holding it down or tapping. Press with pressure and then it works!!

OK, I'm missing something. My lock screen doesn't have any icons at the bottom of it. Do I have to enable a setting to make them show up?