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I don't know about you guys but there's times when I forgo taking out my iPhone and filming video and instead I take out my iPhone and wait for the perfect snapshot the reason is when I'm recording video I don't want to miss out on that perfect photo well in the iPhone 5 you can now do both I'm Jayson Cipriani a scene at how to contributor and I want to take a look at how to take a photo while recording video on the iPhone 5 this feature is exclusive to the new iPhone or the iPhone 5 and you can't get it on the 4s or the four and it's built into the native camera app in iOS 6 so how it works is I have the camera app pulled up now familiar layout we're gonna go to switch over to video mode and you'll see all the normal buttons you could turn the flash on or off switch to the front camera back camera switch back to the camera look at your camera roll and then of course your record button so I'm going to tap on the record button and you'll see all those buttons disappear and a new one added in the top right corner and that's going to be a camera icon so it's filming right now as you can see the red lights blink in the indicator here for the time is going up and I tap on the camera icon it snaps a picture now one thing to keep in mind when you snap a picture while recording video is that any photos you take while recording are actually taken in a 16 by 9 aspect ratio so the actual photo size is 1920 by 1080 I believe and they're not gonna be the full size photos that you would normally give when you're in the camera side of the camera app on the i-5 but they are some photos that you can take and use to share and you do not miss out on that perfect Kodak moment once again this was Jason Cipriani a CNET how to contributor and that was how to take a photo while filming video on the iPhone 5 make sure to visit us at how to cnet.com