Owners of Apple’s latest iPhone can expect a major camera upgrade later this year, thanks to two significant improvements promised in the upcoming iOS 16 release.
According to Apple officials iOS 16 websiteThe iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max smartphones will get an upgrade to the camera’s portrait mode, which enhances the bokeh effect by adding artificial blur to the front as well as the background.
iPhone 13 users will receive a bonus camera upgrade later this year.
This will more accurately mimic the look of a professional camera with a wide-aperture lens and make the portrait mode effect more realistic. Blurring the background of a portrait shot will pop your subject, but a real wide-aperture lens will blur even the extreme nozzle.
Deliberately obscure objects in the foreground can serve as a great way to frame the subject in your photo so, as well as enhanced reality, this new feature will bring new creative possibilities to iPhone photography.
Apple’s second upgrade promises similar improvements to video, where the cinematic mode is set to get more accurate depth-of-field effects around profile shots as well as around the edges of hair and glasses.
It’s nice to see the iPhone 13 improve to an unexpected quality, very close to the Apple iPhone 14 launch. According to Dxomark, the iPhone 13 Pro suffers somewhat due to the depth estimation error in portrait mode, especially pointing out areas around the hair as an example of the problem.
Maybe the new iPhone 14’s new camera will be a really special, must-have, upgrade later this year, but iOS 16 will at least allow iPhone 13 owners to mentally add a few points to their camera’s current Dxomark score.
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