Portrait Mode, first introduced with the iPhone 7 Plus, uses depth data to simulate a background blur effect. Starting with the iPhone 12 Pro, the inclusion of a LiDAR sensor allowed Portrait Mode to ...

Apple has surprisingly disabled Night mode for Portrait shots on the new iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max. This means users can no longer take low-light portraits with background blur on these models, a ...

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A feature that we’ve taken for granted since 2020 – the ability to shoot Portrait Mode photos using Night Mode – has quietly vanished from the latest Pro models. Users started noticing something was ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Ever been using your phone as an actual phone, then held your device awkwardly while on a call and the screen ...

Apple quietly removed its low-light Night mode from the Camera app's Portrait feature on the iPhone 17 Pro, and the company's silence around the change has become almost as puzzling as the decision ...

Google implemented a landscape-mode UI for the Phone app’s call interface earlier this year. At the time it was not clear if this change was even intentional, or what use cases it was meant for. In ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

To address how Phone by Google recently gained a landscape calling screen, the dialer app is now offering a setting to “Keep portrait mode on calls.” Update 12/26: As of this week, this new setting ...

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A developer trying to build a harmless AI tool ended up in one of the worst situations imaginable, after a widely used research dataset he downloaded turned out to contain child abuse images. The ...