QR codes are easy to use, if you know how to access the information they contain and have an internet connection.

Here’s how: Open the Camera app and hold your iPhone, so the QR code appears in the viewfinder. Your phone should recognize the QR code and give you a notification.

System Settings will let you reprogram the Camera Control button to instead use it to launch the Magnifier app, or to launch a hidden Code Scanner app.

Here’s how the new Camera app works in iOS 26. Swipe for camera modes The camera modes used to be listed just above the shutter button. Now they’re below it.

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