ELI5-Why is the front facing camera always a “mirror”?

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In this day and age of “everyone is an influencer” why os the front facing camera always showing a mirror image? Shouldn’t that be an option to set rather than a default setting? Maybe it’s my OCD bothering me when I watch tik tok…..

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It comes down to whether the software is written well or poorly.

My Samsung phone’s packed-in camera app handles selfie mode just fine: The live preview is mirrored for my convenience, but the actual recording is made the right way around. Meanwhile, Open Camera allows me to choose whether to flip the photos the right way around or not, and it doesn’t allow me to choose whether to flip the videos. And either way, the preview is always mirrored.

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