Apple Camera

Halide, a popular iPhone photography app, will not be adding video capture features. Instead, the development team behind Halide is working on a new dedicated video capture app called Kino. Kino aims to provide professional recording features and takes advantage of Apple’s support for log video encoding, which allows for more detailed post-production color grading.

Following the release of iOS 17.2 Beta 4 last week, Apple has now shipped the Release Candidate or RC version to developers and testers. The latest firmware does give a hint of the new features and changes that might make it to the final version.

iOS 17.2, the upcoming operating system update for Apple’s iPhone, will bring several improvements and new features to the devices. One major improvement is the extension of Qi2 compatibility to all models in the iPhone 13 and iPhone 14 series.

Alongside the host of other new features, iOS 17.2 includes an upgrade for the Telephoto camera on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. In the release notes for iOS 17.

The camera smarts in Apple’s iPhone 15 Pro are downright intimidating, but this phone produces amazing photos once you get familiar with them. I’ve only become more in tune with this phone’s tricks since I wrote my iPhone 15 Pro review this past fall.

Apple has recently released an advertisement showcasing the remarkable camera capabilities of its latest iPhone 15 series, with a focus on the groundbreaking Smart Portrait mode. This feature allows users to adjust the focus on different subjects in a photo, even after the image has been taken.

Apple is rumored to be introducing tetraprism camera technology in its upcoming iPhone 16 Pro. This technology would enable the iPhone 16 to have a 5x optical zoom and a 25x digital zoom on the telephoto lens, a significant improvement compared to previous models.

Apple has released a new ad for the iPhone 15 that highlights the device’s portrait camera capabilities. The ad demonstrates how users can turn their photos into portraits after they are taken, and also showcases the ability to shift the focus between subjects.

The Apple TV platform now has a new Zoom meetings app that allows Apple TV 4K users to use their iPhone or iPad as a webcam for Zoom meetings on their TV.

2023 was an exciting one for Apple and the iPhone 15 lineup. Apple surprised everyone by giving the standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus some unexpected upgrades with the camera, as well as bringing the Dynamic Island over to non-Pro models.