That’s what I was going to say- many cameras have reversed selfie cameras, so if the poster doesn’t pay attention, they’re posting a reversed clip/image.
The Great Prophets predicted this many years ago:
'Cause what you see, you might not get
And we can bet, so don’t you get souped yet
Scheming on a thing, that’s a mirage
I’m trying to tell you now, it’s sabotage
It’s not, or at least it shouldn’t be. My iPhone’s selfie cam shows a mirror image with text reversed, but once I take a photo/video it appears in the normal orientation when looked at.
I’m pretty sure that’s just the default for the iPhone. I can’t speak for other phones.
On my Android phone there is a “mirrored photo” setting for the selfie camera. The live display is always mirrored regardless of the setting, but if the mirrored setting is enabled it stores the photo as reversed. I really don’t know why anyone would want it set that way, but it is the default and has to be manually disabled.
Which way is the default, which way is “that way”, and which way do you think no one (or everyone) would want?
Not trying to argue, just can’t decide what you’re trying to say.
The default is mirroring is enabled - the photos are stored reversed. You have to manually find and uncheck the setting to have your selfie photos stored without being reversed.
Gotcha. Thank you.
That was my experience too and I configured mine to store them unmirrored, so any print in the images is readable.
Most phones I’ve had showed the image reversed on the screen in selfie mode (so it behaves like a mirror and is more intuitive to use), but recorded footage conventionally - non-reversed.
I think I might have seen it as a configurable option in one camera app, but when I record using the front facing camera, the resulting video footage is not reversed.