diff --git a/react/features/base/media/actionTypes.js b/react/features/base/media/actionTypes.js
index 3d219b81c..c201b774c 100644
--- a/react/features/base/media/actionTypes.js
+++ b/react/features/base/media/actionTypes.js
@@ -30,3 +30,15 @@ export const SET_CAMERA_FACING_MODE = Symbol('SET_CAMERA_FACING_MODE');
  * }
  */
 export const SET_VIDEO_MUTED = Symbol('SET_VIDEO_MUTED');
+
+/**
+ * The type of (redux) action to toggle the local video camera facing mode. In
+ * contrast to SET_CAMERA_FACING_MODE, allows the toggling to be optimally
+ * and/or natively implemented without the overhead of separate reads and writes
+ * of the current/effective camera facing mode.
+ *
+ * {
+ *     type: TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE
+ * }
+ */
+export const TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE = Symbol('TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE');
diff --git a/react/features/base/media/actions.js b/react/features/base/media/actions.js
index c61cc5262..8e4144a22 100644
--- a/react/features/base/media/actions.js
+++ b/react/features/base/media/actions.js
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ import type { Dispatch } from 'redux';
 import {
     SET_AUDIO_MUTED,
     SET_CAMERA_FACING_MODE,
-    SET_VIDEO_MUTED
+    SET_VIDEO_MUTED,
+    TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE
 } from './actionTypes';
 import { CAMERA_FACING_MODE } from './constants';
 
@@ -73,21 +74,19 @@ export function toggleAudioMuted() {
 }
 
 /**
- * Toggles the camera between front and rear (user and environment).
+ * Toggles the camera facing mode. Most commonly, for example, mobile devices
+ * such as phones have a front/user-facing and a back/environment-facing
+ * cameras. In contrast to setCameraFacingMode, allows the toggling to be
+ * optimally and/or natively implemented without the overhead of separate reads
+ * and writes of the current/effective camera facing mode.
  *
- * @returns {Function}
+ * @returns {{
+ *     type: TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE
+ * }}
  */
 export function toggleCameraFacingMode() {
-    return (dispatch: Dispatch<*>, getState: Function) => {
-        let cameraFacingMode
-            = getState()['features/base/media'].video.facingMode;
-
-        cameraFacingMode
-            = cameraFacingMode === CAMERA_FACING_MODE.USER
-                ? CAMERA_FACING_MODE.ENVIRONMENT
-                : CAMERA_FACING_MODE.USER;
-
-        return dispatch(setCameraFacingMode(cameraFacingMode));
+    return {
+        type: TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE
     };
 }
 
diff --git a/react/features/base/media/reducer.js b/react/features/base/media/reducer.js
index f9d52fd8d..1e2f3142b 100644
--- a/react/features/base/media/reducer.js
+++ b/react/features/base/media/reducer.js
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ import { ReducerRegistry } from '../redux';
 import {
     SET_AUDIO_MUTED,
     SET_CAMERA_FACING_MODE,
-    SET_VIDEO_MUTED
+    SET_VIDEO_MUTED,
+    TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE
 } from './actionTypes';
 import { CAMERA_FACING_MODE } from './constants';
 
@@ -88,6 +89,20 @@ function _video(state = VIDEO_INITIAL_MEDIA_STATE, action) {
             muted: action.muted
         };
 
+    case TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE: {
+        let cameraFacingMode = state.facingMode;
+
+        cameraFacingMode
+            = cameraFacingMode === CAMERA_FACING_MODE.USER
+                ? CAMERA_FACING_MODE.ENVIRONMENT
+                : CAMERA_FACING_MODE.USER;
+
+        return {
+            ...state,
+            facingMode: cameraFacingMode
+        };
+    }
+
     default:
         return state;
     }
diff --git a/react/features/base/tracks/middleware.js b/react/features/base/tracks/middleware.js
index c37bc983c..c8ce1d4db 100644
--- a/react/features/base/tracks/middleware.js
+++ b/react/features/base/tracks/middleware.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
     SET_AUDIO_MUTED,
     SET_CAMERA_FACING_MODE,
     SET_VIDEO_MUTED,
+    TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE,
     setAudioMuted,
     setVideoMuted
 } from '../media';
@@ -64,6 +65,38 @@ MiddlewareRegistry.register(store => next => action => {
         _setMuted(store, action, MEDIA_TYPE.VIDEO);
         break;
 
+    case TOGGLE_CAMERA_FACING_MODE: {
+        const localTrack = _getLocalTrack(store, MEDIA_TYPE.VIDEO);
+        let jitsiTrack;
+        let mediaStreamTrack;
+
+        if (localTrack
+                && (jitsiTrack = localTrack.jitsiTrack)
+                && (mediaStreamTrack = jitsiTrack.track)) {
+            // XXX MediaStreamTrack._switchCamera a custom function implemented
+            // in react-native-webrtc for video which switches between the
+            // cameras via a native WebRTC library implementation without making
+            // any changes to the track.
+            // FIXME JitsiLocalTrack defines getCameraFacingMode. By calling
+            // _switchCamera on MediaStreamTrack without the knowledge of
+            // lib-jitsi-meet we are likely introducing an inconsistency in
+            // JitsiLocalTrack's state.
+            mediaStreamTrack._switchCamera();
+
+            // Don't mirror the video of the back/environment-facing camera.
+            // FIXME Relies on the fact that we always open the camera in
+            // user-facing mode first.
+            store.dispatch({
+                type: TRACK_UPDATED,
+                track: {
+                    jitsiTrack,
+                    mirror: !localTrack.mirror
+                }
+            });
+        }
+        break;
+    }
+
     case TRACK_UPDATED:
         return _trackUpdated(store, next, action);
     }