54 MACWORLD MARCH 2020
iOSCENTRAL HOW TO USE THE iPHONE’S OVER-CAPTURE FEATUREdash-bordered square with the word
AUTO to its right, both reversed out
of a yellow bar. If you want to
override that adjustment, you can
tap AUTO like it’s a button (it is!) and
the changes are removed.
In macOS 10.15 Catalina, even
with iCloud Photos enabled, the
over-captured area doesn’t appear
accessible in Photos for macOS.
This might change, but for now it
looks like the extra information is
either stored or only accessible in
iOS and iPadOS.
Apple says the over-capture
area is retained for 30 days after
the picture is taken. At that point, it
effectively re-crops the photo to the frame
as shot. I suspect this is handled cleverly
using the HEIC (High Efficiency Image
Coding) package that the company started
using in OS releases in 2018. This package
allows the efficient storage of multiple
images, making it easier to combine them
in an app for display and discard elements
without rewriting the primary image.
REFUSIN’ DEEP FUSION
One warning and tip about Capture
Outside The Frame: If you have the
feature turned on, the upcoming Deep
Fusion machine-learning-based addition
to the Camera app is disabled. Deep
Fusion, coming in iOS 13.2, uses
machine-learning algorithms to produce
photos that assemble richer details and
tones than even the Smart HDR feature
already present.
Deep Fusion handles the controls of
multiple cameras to capture multiple inputs
and images simultaneously and then
process them. There’s a thought that
Apple left Capture Outside The Frame
turned off “out of the box” because Deep
Fusion was coming.
By the same token, if you don’t always
want to use Deep Fusion, Apple provides
no switch in the current beta testing stage
to turn it off. Capture Outside The Frame
thus becomes an implicit on/off switch for
Deep Fusion, too. ■If Photos decides to correct an image for you, it marks
it AUTO at the top.