iOS 15 could fix the worst iPhone camera flaw

iOS 15 could gear up the worst iPhone camera flaw

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One of iOS 15'south new features may have the power to better iPhone photographs by using post-processing to remove the ugly greenish flares sometimes seen in pictures.

This discovery came from user Doubleluckstur on Reddit'south r/iOSBeta page (via The Verge), who used an unknown iPhone running the iOS xv developer beta. This would make for a smashing quality of life improvement to all iOS fifteen-uniform devices, including the upcoming iPhone 13. Even so users on older iPhones may detect they're unable to use it, even if they can update to iOS 15, according to other users who've tried to replicate the trick.

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The flares, prototype artifacts caused past brilliant lights causing reflections within the lens, will still announced through viewfinders when lining up a shot. However, looking at the concluding epitome on screen, or afterward in the Photos app, will show the event to be reduced or removed. This issue seems to work worse with certain backgrounds, similar leaves, mesh screens or artificial light sources.

iOS 15 lens flare reduction — The corrected image from the Reddit mail. (Image credit: u/Doubleluckstur via Reddit)

If you lot've taken a Live Photo, then the principal paradigm chosen by Apple's software has the flare reduced the virtually, while the other frames receive less processing. The feature doesn't seem to change video at all for the time existence.

And so far this characteristic has been confirmed as working on the iPhone XS, the iPhone eleven series and the iPhone 12 series. Older phones don't seem to be capable of this from what'due south been seen and so far. This tracks equally all these devices utilize the Apple tree A12 Bionic fleck or newer, a requirement for other features in the iOS xv beta.

Features that appear in operating arrangement betas aren't guaranteed to go far to the stable release version. We hope that this ane sticks effectually until iOS fifteen is officially released to the public this fall, alongside the iPhone 13. Flares like these are a common problem for iPhone photographers, and removing it would be a huge benefit.

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