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Halide’s advanced camera app is now as easy to launch as Apple’s


Shoot first and unlock later.

By Andrew Liszewski, a senior reporter who's been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2011, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Halide users who’ve upgraded their iPhones to iOS 18 are now able to quickly access the advanced camera app directly from their phone’s lock screen without having to unlock it first. Halide could be made accessible through a lock screen widget, but actually getting into the third-party camera app still required an iPhone to be first unlocked using FaceID, TouchID, or entering a passcode.

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