For years now I’ve been stuck in the habit of using the native iOS camera app on my iPhone, simply for its convenience and mixture of shooting modes. When I tried using an attachable telephoto zoom lens to my iPhone 16 Pro Max, however, I discovered that the camera app wasn’t equipped to work nicely with it because of how it doesn’t let me manually select the camera I need to use for the occasion.
That’s because of how Apple keeps everything locked down with the camera app, which also explains why to this day it doesn’t offer manual controls typically found in some of the best camera phones. Frustrated, I finally ditched it for the ProCam app.
