Measuring Tape

If you want your measurements in strict alignment on the drawing’s vertical or horizontal (X or Y) axes, you might want to use the Horizontal measure or Vertical measure tool. Follow this same procedure to use them. They take measurements fixed on their grid direction, even if the tool endpoints are not perfectly aligned to the grid.

If you don’t see the Drawing Tool Shapes stencil, add it to your Shapes window. Click More Shapes > Visio Extras > Drawing Tool Shapes.

I have already turned on the setting for "Remember my last setting that I left the Camera app on". However, when I come back to the camera app, it opens again at 1x zoom. Please help!

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Tip:  Because the Measure tool is a shape, it displays in the same scale as your view—that means when you zoom out to see more of your drawing, it might be too small to read. Also, at closer zooms, you have more precision in placing the Measure tool end points.

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On iOS 17.0.2 there's no built in setting to default to wide angle photos. I don't see it as an option in the shortcuts app either, but perhaps someone can make a custom app that works with shortcuts similar to the one linked here (which does other tasks - not camera ones) to call the specific API that apple provides develiopers to select the back camera, choose ultra wide, choose photo and then perform the capture, all in software.

I'm not aware of such an app, but will edit this if I find one. You will need Apple to change their software (make this a default, make a pre-shipped shortcut option in Photos to select wide angle) or a developer to ship code as a shortcut automation (or use another camera app entirely) for this to happen.

Glue one endpoint of the Measure tool shape to one point you want to measure—the endpoint turns green to indicate it is glued. Then drag the other end to the other point. The measure tool shows exactly how far apart its end points are.