Apple Tests iPhone 7 Plus Portrait Mode in New iOS Developer Beta
September 21 2016 - 5:22PM
Dow Jones News
By Nathan Olivarez-Giles
When the iPhone 7 Plus started selling last Friday, one key
feature wasn't available: the eagerly anticipated portrait camera
mode. On Wednesday, it made its first semipublic appearance, when
Apple Inc. released iOS 10.1 beta software to developers.
Sure enough, the feature that uses the dual-camera setup on the
iPhone 7 Plus to artfully blur the background of photos, was there.
The effect mimics what appears in portrait shots taken with DSLRs
and other cameras with larger lenses and sensors. The two cameras
on the iPhone 7 Plus are needed to judge the distance between the
photo's subject and the background. As such, it isn't available for
the iPhone 7.
The inclusion of the portrait mode in the iOS 10.1 developer
beta was first reported by TechCrunch.
Apple's iOS public beta software usually comes about a week or
so after the developer beta is issued, though it could take much
longer for the general release of iOS 10.1 to be available. Apple
hasn't said when its portrait mode will arrive publicly, just that
it would happen before the end of the year.
Write to Nathan Olivarez-Giles at
Nathan.Olivarez-giles@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
September 21, 2016 17:07 ET (21:07 GMT)
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