Apple, among the novelties of iOS 16, has added two new exclusive features for the cameras of the four iPhone 13 models. The company ensure on your website that both the iPhone 13 and 13 mini, as well as the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max, will have a “foreground blur in vertical photos” mode. Also an “improved quality when recording in cinema mode”, after updating to the new version of the operating system.
Apple, in particular, ensures that in iOS 16 portrait mode can now blur “foreground objects” in order to offer a much more realistic depth effect. Until now, the blur function was only available for humans, pets and objects with portrait mode, but this can offer a very pronounced blur. Regarding the cinema mode, the company improved the accuracy of the depth effect in some situations. Among them, when the camera captured “profile angles” or in areas such as hair or lenses.
When shooting videos in Cinema mode on iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro, the depth-of-field effect is more accurate for profile angles and around the edges of hair and glasses.
Although the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro, as well as some models that will be able to update to iOS 16 starting this fall, have the possibility of taking a photo in portrait mode, the two new functions They will only be available for those models that belong to the iPhone 13 series. In fact, these smartphones are the only ones that can record video in cinema mode. Both features are also likely to be available on the future iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro.
Apple, for the moment, has not announced any other news related to the camera of its current iPhone for iOS 16. However, it has revealed some features coming to the Photos app and that will allow, in a certain way, to improve the experience with photography.
The company now protects two of the most sensitive albums in the Photos app with Face ID. The ‘Hidden’ and ‘Deleted’ folders will therefore only be accessible to iPhone owners when they upgrade to iOS 16. Apple, on the other hand, now allows for smarter shared albums, with modes that automatically add photos to that folder. photo library in case the system detects that one of the members of the album appears in that image. Another interesting feature is the possibility of check duplicate photos. The app will also allow you to “merge” them to free up more space in iCloud or in the internal memory of the iPhone.