Lately, you may have encountered the term “Camera Assistant” increasingly often. What is it? In short, it's a Samsung app that can enhance your mobile camera experience.
Exactly how it does that we'll explain throughout the week as we dive deeper into many of the Camera Assistant features. Today, we'll give you a more general introduction to the app's brief history, origins, and purpose.
What is Camera Assistant?
Samsung introduced the Camera Assistant app a little over a year ago, in October 2022. It's developed by Good Lock Labs and available through the Galaxy Store.
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Like many other apps that were spun off Good Lock, Camera Assistant doesn't do much on its own but assists an existing Samsung app — in this case, Camera. If the default Camera app offers a streamlined experience for everyone to enjoy, the Camera Assistant adds a few extra features for those users who may want to get more control over mobile photography and videography.
Generally speaking, Samsung is striving to keep many of its first-party apps as streamlined and organized as possible. On the other hand, Samsung knows that some users may want more advanced controls over certain features, and this is where Good Lock apps usually come into play.
So, in case you're not completely satisfied with the default Camera app from Samsung or you feel like you're missing some options, the Camera Assistant app is the legitimate way, fully endorsed by Samsung, to expand upon the default Camera app's capabilities on your Galaxy device. Features include (but are not limited to):
- Auto HDR
- Picture softening
- Auto lens switching
- Quick tap shutter
- Prioritize focus over speed
- Capture speed
- Video recording in Photo mode
- Timer multi-photo options
- Camera timeout
- Dim screen while recording
- Clean preview on HDMI displays
Since its original release last year, Camera Assistant gained more features and support for additional phones. With the release of the Galaxy S23 series, Samsung also added a dedicated “Camera Assistant” section inside the Camera app's Settings menu, which, when tapped, acts as a shortcut to the Camera Assistant app.
And with One UI 6.0, there's a high probability that Galaxy A phones will also be getting access to Camera Assistant. Needless to say, the app is slowly becoming a part of the default experience on Galaxy devices. Which explains why you may have been hearing more and more about it.
Throughout the week, we'll be taking a closer look at some of the Camera Assistant features individually and dive deeper into what they do. For now, you can head down to the Galaxy Store by hitting the download link we provided and check whether or not Camera Assistant compatible with your Galaxy device.
