iOS 12 released

Re:iOS 12 released by gnicholas on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:20PM (#18008484)

From the update description: Portrait mode improvements preserve fine detail between subject and background when using Stage Light and Stage Light Mono effects

I thought that iOS 12 would improve this for Portrait mode generally. I have an iPhone 7 Plus and sure hope that these benefits are available on my iPhone (which doesn't have these specific effects — just vanilla Portrait mode).

Has anyone see improvements in Portrait mode in the beta?

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Re:iOS 12 released by oflannabhra on Monday September 17, 2018 @04:45PM (#18009905)

Here is a decent breakdown (unfortunately as a Twitter thread):

https://twitter.com/tobiasdm/status/1007229233104588801

also (from the Halide.app dev):

https://twitter.com/sandofsky/status/1027072222425317376

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Re:iOS 12 released by gnicholas on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:18PM (#18010174)

Thanks for these! I'd seen the latter, and assumed that if the edge detection algo was refined, then it would be available everywhere that it's used. From the other commenter, it seems like maybe not. I wish I'd taken some "before" photos so that I could compare after updating.

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Re:iOS 12 released by fuxufu on Monday September 17, 2018 @02:52PM (#18008843)

As far as I know (and can see on my 7+) there are no visisble improvements. But 3rd party apps e.g. like Halide can use the new APIs for more accurate background blur.

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