It works if you set the auxiliary camera in Settings - General - extended (Einstellungen, Abschnitt Allgemein - Erweitert - Hilfskamera). Enable the first and second sensor (Erster und Zweiter Bildsensor). The first is the normal the second the wideangle lense. By setting the icon text you can explicitly name those sensors accordingly
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Yeah, looking at the changelog, it seems that they added this option in the last version (V11). What a timing. 
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thank you! that worked like a charm.
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but it seems, that the gcam versions perform very different on the wide angle camera.
BSG version often dont capture or crashes but Greatness works fine with far better quality,( if you activate the second camera.)
maybe ill test more versions.
But oberall is the camera quality a bit sad.
I activated widecam in Gcam BSG but can’t find it in OpenCamera. Where is it hidden?
Also interesting to see that stock camera does a good job of removing wide angle distortion while Gcam does record the raw image. (Example)
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Oh, I was blind, thanks 
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First there was a camera missing in OpenCamera, now I have one too much… 
Has anyone tested if there is any operational difference between the two versions of the standard camera (IDs 0 and 3)?
Manual Camera also has 4 whereas 2 seem to be the same, not sure if this could be due to the TOF sensor, or the full resolution?
ID 0 should simply be the main camera.
ID 3 is indeed an exciting question. It is a logical camera that consists of the physical main camera (ID 0) and theoretically at least one other physical camera. However, it is unclear which one it is, since this is not apparent in the camera2 report. Maybe the TOF sensor???
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On stock FPOS, it shows Physical Camera Ids: [0, 2], which would suggest that it’s a logical combination of the primary camera and the ultra-wide camera. But I’m not sure how to switch between them. 
Probably using zoom, but which value?
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Interesting! I assume that the switch between main camera and wide angle is fully automatic depending on the zoom. Then the ID 3 seems to be fully usable with FPOS. However, not with custom ROMs.
Is the camera2 report under FPOS otherwise the same as with the custom ROMs since the new update or has something else changed?
How would that work? You can zoom in, but not out, so I don’t really see under which conditions it could automatically switch from the normal lens to the wide-angle one.
I had assumed the composite camera is the normal camera + ToF sensor, but what does that mean for everyday use? Better/faster (/stronger…) focusing? Or nothing at all?
That been said it would be nice to be able to address the ToF sensor alone, to get some kind of night vision camera… 
That’s what I thought at first, too, but if FPOS says in the camera2 report that it’s ID 0 and 2, it must actually be the wide angle camera. 
Which apparently, as you describe, also does not work with ID 3. Or are you on a custom ROM?
No, stock Fairphone OS. The only non-stock part is OpenCamera.
Oh well, it’s good weather outside, so I guess I’ll try tomorrow to discover if there is any visible difference between using IDs 0 and 3.
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Funny, my problem is the other way round, I found the wide angle camera but just don’t seem to find in in either Wichaya nor Nikita Gcam port. Maybe they don’t have it? How does it look like in BSG?
Thanks a lot. My versions don’t have that switch.
You have to enable auxiliary camera (ID 2):
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