DECEMBER 2021 MACWORLD 359thing. It can absolutely transform photos
taken in very low light.
If the Camera app detects a dark
scene, Night Mode is enabled
automatically, but sometimes you want that
dramatic dark effect, and it’s annoying to
disable Night Mode to get it. You have to
tap the Night Mode indicator and then
slide the timer
down to zero
seconds.
If you wait a
while before taking
another photo, it
will reengage
automatically.
With iOS 15, you
can head to Settings
→ Camera → Preserve Settings to
find an option to preserve your
Night Mode settings (among
other things). With this enabled,
Night Mode will remember when
it has been turned off and won’t
reenable itself. If you want to
take a Night Mode shot, you can
manually tap the Night Mode
indicator to enable it yourself.- ADJUST VIDEO
PLAYBACK SPEED
Apps like YouTube have had
variable speed playback for
some time now, but the default
iPhone video player has not. In iOS 15, the
default player (used for many web videos
as well as by lots of apps) has playback
speed controls.
When playing back a video, tap the
overflow menu in the lower right (the three
dots), and you’ll be able to select from up
to five different playback speeds. ■
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