Recent weeks have seen numerous leaks about Motorola’s 2018 phone lineup, with the Lenovo-owned company also appointing a new leader in March. Ahead of this month’s product announcements, the company has revamped the design of its camera app with an update rolling out to older devices.
Screens from the old Moto Camera interface
This “New 2018 Camera User Interface” as Motorola refers to in release notes on the Play Store is centered around swiping to switch modes versus the previous unintuitive overflow menu. To the right is quick access to video, while the left has a navigation drawer of sorts to access Photo and Video Modes, like Panorama and Slow Motion.
The nav drawer previously housed settings, which is now its own full menu page. The various options and customizations here are unchanged.
Meanwhile, the app bar with controls for HDR, flash, and timer adds a quick way to switch between Auto and Manual mode rather than heading into the aforementioned overflow menu. It is also more transparent so that users can see more of the viewfinder.
Probably the most pronounced change here affects how you choose shooting modes. With the old Moto Camera, all your options appeared on the right side of the screen after tapping an overflow button. While that kept the viewfinder from getting too overcrowded, the multiple taps required to get to anything felt somewhat short of graceful. We also had some redundancy, as the option to switch between still shots and video existed both in that menu and as an always-available icon next to your shutter.
With this new interface, you can swipe between still and video, or swipe once more to access a screen with buttons for panoramas, slow-motion video, and camera settings. Switching between auto and manual modes, meanwhile, is now accomplished via a toggle that lives up top, next to the HDR, flash, and timer options.
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