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’s official iOS 16 website, the iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max will be upgraded to the camera’s portrait mode, which enhances the bokeh effect by adding artificial blur to the foreground and background.
IPhone 13 users will receive a bonus upgrade to the camera later this year.
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This should make the effect of portrait mode even more realistic by more accurately simulating the appearance of professional cameras with wide aperture lenses. Blurring the background of a portrait photo will make your subject stand out, but a real lens with a wide aperture will also blur the foreground.
Deliberately blurring foreground subjects can also be a great way to frame the subject in your photo, so like improved realism, this new feature will bring new creative possibilities to iPhone photography.
Apple’s second upgrade promises similar video enhancements, where Cinematic mode is tuned to get more accurate effects on the depth of field for profile photos, as well as around the edges of hair and glasses.
It’s great to see how Apple provides unexpected improvements in the quality of the iPhone 13 so close to the release of the iPhone 14. According to Dxomark, the iPhone 13 Pro suffers from a few errors in estimating depth in portrait mode, especially the problem.
Maybe the new iPhone 14 camera will bring a really special, must-see 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 result.
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