Mirrored Selfies

While we’ve never quite understood why the option exists, many Android phones have long allowed users to choose whether they want their selfies to be taken from a normal perspective or as a mirror image. Since the screen always presents a mirrored image, the advantage of the latter approach is that what you see is exactly what you’ll get, but of course things like text will be rendered backward.

The iPhone, on the other hand, has always done the right thing, displaying a mirror image to the user, but recording the video from the proper perspective. iOS 14, however, will offer a setting to allow users to take mirrored selfies if they really want to, although thankfully this will be off by default in order to avoid confusion.