Tech Tips: Not just photos! You can also use your smartphone’s camera, learn amazing tricks

By Samira Vishwas On Dec 31, 2025

Your phone’s camera does ‘it’ great work
Is the camera just a photo? no…
You’ve never used a phone camera like this!

While buying a smartphone, the first thing to check is its camera. smartphoneA camera is used for photography and videography. There are many other apps, like Snapchat, that use the smartphone’s camera. Is the smartphone camera only used for photography and videography? So no. Apart from clicking photos and recording videos, you can also do many other things with the smartphone camera. Let’s know about it now.

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Chatting with an AI chatbot

AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini currently offer live camera sharing support. In this, users can provide visual reference to the AI chatbot with the help of camera feed, so that it can respond better. For example, if you like a dress and are confused about how the dress will look on you, you can turn on the camera and ask the AI chatbot about it. (Photo Courtesy – Pinterest)

translation

You can also do text translation using the camera. When you go to another country and you don’t know the language of that country, you can use translation. With the help of a smartphone camera, you can easily translate sign boards, menus and other documents written in other languages and understand what is written on them.

Google Lens Search

If you want to identify an item or search the internet about that item, you can use Google Lens Search. You have to open Google Lens and click the photo of that object. Then you will get all the information available on the internet about that item. It will not only provide information about the item, but also a link to purchase the item if it is available.

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Document scanning

Document scanning has become a necessity for many people these days. You can easily scan any document with the help of smartphone camera. Previously, scanning a document required a large scanner. But not so now. Now you can easily scan documents with the help of smartphone camera. Also you can edit that document using various apps.