The Pixel 5 and 4a 5G dispatched with an overhauled Camera application that later advanced toward different telephones. One of the Pixel UI changes to Google Camera 8.0 is another approach to get to full zoom controls outside of the preset increments.

Over the shutter button is a pill with .6x (4a 5G/5 in particular), 1x, and 2x additions for rapidly zooming in/out. It’s more advantageous than pinch-to-zoom, which requires holding the telephone in one hand while utilizing the other to make the gesture. An option is utilizing the volume rocker for zoom controls, however most incline toward utilizing that as an actual shutter button.

Google Camera 8.0 and 8.1 (current delivery) quietly introduced another route with zoom on the Pixel. Holding down on .6/1/2x will open the full slider and let you drag to the exact increment.

Clients don’t need to keep their finger on the screen as the bar stays on screen for a few seconds. Indeed, the initial drag is much more slow than every single succeeding change. Whenever you’re finished changing, the “2x” preset changes to whatever increase you arrived on, while you can rapidly zoom back out.

The new technique comes as Google removed the capacity to double-tap to zoom in/out with version 8.0. That was previously the best approach to rapidly bring the up the slider.

This zoom include in Google Camera is somewhat hidden as most Pixel proprietors won’t think to push down on the pill. In the interim, there is some irregularity given how the slider is absolute. For instance, pushing down on 1x at the center of the screen will move the round slider picker to one side of your finger. It’s not one-to-one with your finger.