There’s a problem with the Xiaomi 14 camera – but we have a fix

I’ve been using the Xiaomi 14 and 14 Ultra for a while now, and it’s a great phone but something about the camera app has been irking me. 

I was sitting at my local pub, taking pictures of my beer as I can often be found doing. My wife and daughter joined me, so I started taking some selfies of us with the Xiaomi 14 – only something looked odd about the snaps. 

After a minute of flicking through them, I realised that everything was the wrong way around. The fireplace was on the wrong side of the pub and the writing on my t-shirt was backwards. I don’t want my photos to be of a mirror world and you probably don’t either. 

I’m accustomed to the preview on the screen being a mirror image but it’s typical for phones to have flipped the photograph when you and go at look at it later.  

Of course, it’s not a big deal to flip them around with software after taking your snaps – see our how to flip a photo on Android guide –  but you don’t want to do that for every selfie you ever take so here’s how to fix it. 

1. Open the camera app on your Xiaomi 14 (or 14 Ultra) and tap the little down-pointing arrow at the top to open a menu. 

2. Now tap the cog wheel at the top right. 

3. Scroll down and select ‘Selfie settings’. 

4. Toggle the ‘Mirror front camera’ option to off.