---
title: showsCameraControls
framework: uikit
role: symbol
role_heading: Instance Property
path: uikit/uiimagepickercontroller/showscameracontrols
---

# showsCameraControls

A Boolean value that indicates whether the image picker displays the default camera controls.

## Declaration

```swift
var showsCameraControls: Bool { get set }
```

## Discussion

Discussion The default value of this property is true, which specifies that the default camera controls are visible in the picker. Set it to false to hide the default controls if you want to instead provide a custom overlay view using the cameraOverlayView property. note: In iOS 3.1.3 and earlier, hiding the default camera controls limits you to taking still pictures only, regardless of whether movie capture is available on the device. If you set this property to false and provide your own custom controls, you can take multiple pictures before dismissing the image picker interface. However, if you set this property to true, your delegate must dismiss the image picker interface after the user takes one picture or cancels the operation. You can access this property only when the source type of the image picker is set to UIImagePickerController.SourceType.camera. Attempting to access this property for other source types results in the throwing of an invalidArgumentException exception. Depending on the value you assign to the mediaTypes property, the default controls display the still camera or movie camera interface, or a selection control that lets the user choose the picker interface.

## See Also

### Related Documentation

- [takePicture()](uikit/uiimagepickercontroller/takepicture().md)

### Customizing the camera controls

- [Customizing an image picker controller](uikit/customizing-an-image-picker-controller.md)
- [cameraOverlayView](uikit/uiimagepickercontroller/cameraoverlayview.md)
- [cameraViewTransform](uikit/uiimagepickercontroller/cameraviewtransform.md)