Apple’s Photo booth software automatically flips your photos and videos. It does this in order to mimic what you see in the mirror. Here is how to stop it.
Because we’re so used to seeing ourselves in a mirror (which flips how we really look) Apple decided to make their photobooth program also flip the image. Otherwise we’d think our selfies looked “weird”.
But here’s how to turn flipping off:
- Open Photo Booth
- Click on Edit in the top bar
- Then click on Auto Flip New Photos
That’s it! To turn flipping back on just do the same thing.
This does not work for me.
Another solution offered that does not work is to try to flip it in with the crop tool after the video is recorded in iMovie. The crop function will not remove the mirror effect. It won’t flip it, it only rotates it.
Macbook Pro 2014, OS Sierra 10.12.6
No effect – evrything I view is bass ackwards in view mode. I have to take a photo and flip everytime.
looking at cpins and everything is reversed – thanks Apple for thinking for us!
In Photo Booth, the reverse image will not change back. I disconnected the USB camera, changed it several times. It is always reversed.
None of these work! I’m trying to read a picture book and the words are backwards!
Drag the pic to desktop, open with double click (preview), flip horizontally and there you go.
same here, cannot stop the autoflip in video mode: extremely annoying
This is so annoying! Why is it flipping all of my video reocrdings even tough i have deselected the “auto flip new items” feature. Arrrrrgh.
same here, just tried to record a video lecture with my slides projected behind me, all text flipped, no way to turn it off …