Learn how to stop your iPhone from flipping selfies and instead save un-mirrored originals that match exactly what you see in the Camera app’s viewfinder.
Why does your iPhone flip selfies?
iPhone photography fans have long complained that the Camera app saves un-mirrored selfies despite the viewfinder in the Camera app showing a flipped image. Before selfies came along, we were used to seeing the left and right side reversed on reflective surfaces like mirrors. The viewfinder in the Camera app follows that logic.
The problem is, selfies are not un-mirrored before saving to the Photos app. As a result, your iPhone selfies reflect what the front camera saw at capture time instead of what the viewfinder displayed. To put it differently, the Camera app shows a mirrored version, but what gets saved is the original, un-flipped image.
As a result, your pout, the angle of your head, or the haircut you saw in the viewfinder will appear differently (and perhaps less appealing) on the saved image. Follow the steps ahead to stop your iPhone from saving mirrored selfies so the image saved in Photos is the same as one you saw in the Camera app when you snapped it.
Take mirrored selfies on iPhone and iPad
Go to Settings > Camera and turn on the Mirror Front Camera switch. To test this, take a selfie in the Camera app and then check it in the Photos app. The saved version will match what you saw in the Camera app.
How to manually flip selfies on iPhone and iPad
The above instructions will fix your mirrored selfies, but what about ones you took before reading our tutorial? Those you can un-mirror using the Flip feature in Photos. And don’t worry about images taken with the rear camera; those are always saved in their original, un-mirrored version.