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We asked, you told us: Camera flashes are basically now just flashlights
July 04, 2025
Night modeon our smartphone cameras has gottenso goodover the years.
How good?!
Night mode on our smartphone cameras has gottenso goodover the years, that people are very rarely using their camera flash for taking photos. We asked you last week on thewebsite,Twitter, andYouTubeto tell us what you use your camera flash for. Nearly 20,000Android Authorityfans voted, and the results are very clear.
What do you use your phone’s camera flash for?
The majority of voters (61.27%) said they only use their camera flash as aflashlight, completely foregoing its use for nighttime shots. 31.45% of voters said they use their camera flash for taking photosandfor the flashlight feature, while just 2.37% of people(470 votes) only use it as a camera flash.
Maybe we should stop referring to these as camera flashes and start calling them flashlights.
The results shouldn’t be too surprising here. Jokes aside, night mode really is the biggest boon to low-light photography we’ve ever seen in thesmartphonelandscape. Using night mode in lieu of a physical camera flash does make a huge difference.
Here’s what you had to say
Here are some of the best comments from last week’s poll explaining why they voted the way that they did:
That’s it for this week. As always, thanks for voting, thanks for the comments, and don’t forget to let us know what you thought of the results below.
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