How Do I Get the Camera Shortcut on My Android?

Double-click Power button to launch the camera app [Marshmallow only] As you probably knew already, the lock screen on your Android phone or tablet has a tiny camera shortcut in the bottom-right corner of the screen. Just tap, hold and swipe the shortcut to take a quick snapshot from your locked Android device.

How do I show the camera icon on my Android?

If you don’t have an App Drawer button, that means every app on the phone will show up somewhere on the homescreen. If you don’t see the Camera app anywhere, it might be disabled. Go to Settings>Apps​ and see if you can find Camera as a Disabled app, and re-enable it.

How do I get my camera icon back?

When you tap any of the other icons, see if you get a little popup that shows more than one icon together in a folder. If you do get that, and it camera icon is in there, all you need to do is ‘tap’ and ‘hold’ the camera icon and then drag it out of the folder and put it back on the screen itself.