# A remote for my iPhone 5?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-remote-for-my-iphone-5/658698>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 18, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-remote-for-my-iphone-5/658698 "2013-05-18T21:04:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-remote-for-my-iphone-5/658698/1 "2013-05-18T21:04:28Z")

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I would like to snap photos with the camera remotely and sans cord so I can join in. I have searched, but my lack of knowledge about photography hampers me.  
Any help from fellow dopers?  
Thanks,  
mangeorge

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**Author:** ![Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiendish_astronaut/32/3295_2.png) [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiendish_Astronaut)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-remote-for-my-iphone-5/658698/2 "2013-05-18T22:22:08Z")

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Hi Mangeorge,

It didn’t take me long to do a promising Google search with the term “operate iphone camera remotely”.

But since I have no experience of any of these apps I wouldn’t like to recommend one myself.

PS: I wouldn’t normally post with a Google search answer but it’d been an hour since your post so I thought that if this answer has no other use for you, it would at least bump it for you.

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**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-remote-for-my-iphone-5/658698/3 "2013-05-18T22:44:51Z")

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> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#):
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> Hi Mangeorge,
> 
> It didn’t take me long to do a promising Google search with the term “operate iphone camera remotely”.
> 
> But since I have no experience of any of these apps I wouldn’t like to recommend one myself.
> 
> PS: I wouldn’t normally post with a Google search answer but it’d been an hour since your post so I thought that if this answer has no other use for you, it would at least bump it for you.

Thanks, Fiendish Astronaut.  
Blux lens looks pretty good. I can use between iPhone and iPad.  
I’ll give it a try tomorrow.  
Thanks again,  
mangeorge