With iOS 18, users can replace the default camera app on the lock screen with a third-party app. Halide and Obscura — two popular camera apps designed as

OS 18 now lets you replace Apple's basic Camera app on the iPhone's lock screen with third-party ones like Halide –here's how to do it.

The other shortcut, the camera one, is tricky: with the new iPhone 16 series, you have a total of four ways to access the camera: the lock screen shortcut, swiping left on the lock screen, mapping the camera to the Action Button, and pressing the new Camera Control button. That's enough redundancy.