Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest i Phones’ cameras | The Verge
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Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest i Phones’ cameras
The new camera features are only accessible when editing photos captured on Apple’s new i Phones.
The new camera features are only accessible when editing photos captured on Apple’s new i Phones.
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Apple’s new texture and grain controls for stylizing photos will be more limited on older phones than initially expected.
A confusingly worded press release from Apple indicated that the new features, announced alongside the i Phone 18 and 18 Pro earlier this month, would be “available” on older devices like the i Phone 16 and i Phone Air that “support the latest generation of Photographic Styles.”
But it turns out that “available” didn’t mean that older i Phone models would have full access to those new features.
The original version of a September 11th release, which was issued the day before the latest versions of the i Phone and Apple Watches became available for preorder, is still available in its original form on other websites with a footnote specifying that the new “texture and grain controls in Photographic Styles will be available on i OS 27 on i Phone 16, i Phone 16 Plus, i Phone 16 Pro, i Phone 16 Pro Max, i Phone 17, i Phone Air, i Phone 17 Pro, i Phone 17 Pro Max, i Phone 18 Pro, i Phone 18 Pro Max, and i Phone Duo.”
This limited compatibility was corroborated by a Reddit user who was able to make adjustments to texture and grain on their i Phone 16 Pro Max, but only while editing sample photos taken on an i Phone 18 Pro by photographer Austin Mann who made them available for download on his website. I also had access to those new Photographic Styles controls when editing Mann’s samples on my own i Phone 16 Pro running i OS 27, but they were not available on photos I captured myself.
The Verge has reached out to Apple for clarification on how the feature is supposed to work on older phones but did not immediately get a response.
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