How to determine how many megapixels your phone camera has

If you love phones with great camera pixels or you’ll simply like to know how to determine how many megapixels your phone camera has. Here is a simple guide.

Taking pictures is all good, right? With your smartphone, this is even easier! Just take it out of your pocket and start recording amazing things out there. However, most people would actually want to know how many megapixels their smartphone camera has.

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There are a few ways you can check the number of pixels on your camera, and we are going to focus on just three major ways here.

Through the Internet

One of the easiest ways to determine how many megapixels your phone camera has is by going through the smartphone brand website. For the purpose of this guide, I will be using the Redmi 10A. To know the actual megapixels of this smartphone through the internet, all I need to do is to

Go to the Xiaomi official website or the website of the phone brand you are using.
Search for the model of your device in the search box.
tab on your phone model.
There you will see the phone’s key features, including the actual camera megapixels.

Through Calculation

Do you like math? You can determine how many megapixels your phone camera has by using the image size. When you enter your phone’s gallery, you can see the meta data of the photo, especially its size. Then just make a simple calculation to know the actual camera megapixels.

Here is what to do:

Go to your Photo Gallery app.
Look for a picture that you snapped with your phone, and then multiply the file size to get the megapixels of the camera. In my own case, mine is 3120 x 4160 pixels. When you calculate the two values, the result is 12,979,200. But the pixels are always approximated, so the lens used is 13MP.

Pretty easy, right?