By Hold your iPhone vertically, not horizontally, when shooting panoramas. This counterintuitive technique captures more vertical detail in your scene, from foreground to sky, giving you taller, more dramatic final images. Move the camera smoothly in one continuous motion at a steady pace—the iPhone’s software stitches frames together in real-time, and jerky movements or speed variations create visible distortion and alignment errors.
Lock your exposure and focus before you start panning by tapping and holding on your subject until the AE/AF Lock indicator appears. This prevents the camera from adjusting exposure mid-sweep, …
