The phrase "activate the camera" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when instructing someone to turn on or enable a camera, typically in a technical or digital context.
Example: "To start the video call, please activate the camera on your device."
Alternatives: "turn on the camera" or "enable the camera."
On the iPhone there's a trick that lets you clap to activate the camera.
When the shopkeeper feels threatened they activate the camera which displays a sign that it is recording.
Then they activate the camera on the app to scan the QR code on the reader after the first item is scanned by the cashier.
It's the same stripped back "pure" Android experience that Motorola made so effective with the original Moto G. Aside from a Moto app, which allows users to customise gestures such as a karate chop to turn on the torch or a quick couple of twists of the wrist to activate the camera, there's no bloat to speak of.
Tapping the icon would activate the camera.
First, when are officers required to activate the camera?
Only two employees were authorized to activate the cameras — and only to locate missing laptops, Mr. Young said.
Doug Young, a district spokesman, said that only two technology department employees were authorized to activate the cameras, and only to locate missing laptops, 28 of which have been recovered.
Some users cover up these cameras with tape or slim gadgets to ensure nefarious players do not remotely activate the cameras.
If the police, for instance, know that certain criminal has entered Moscow, they enter the face into the system and activate the cameras he or she is most likely to appear on.
Included in the set of keys this thing provides are iPad-specific buttons for finding the home screen, activity spotlight search, switching languages, activating the camera, playing back media and controlling volume.
