APPLE SPECIAL EVENT
QuickTake videos, wider selfies, and more
While the addition of the ultra wide camera and Night
Mode are the headline features, there are plenty of
other additions to the Camera app with the iPhone 11.
Here’s a quick look:- The new QuickTakevideomodelets you hold
downthe shutterbuttonin still‑image mode in order
to quickly shoot some video for as long as you keep
the button pressed. What Apple didn’t show on stage
is that if you swipe that button to the right, you can
‘lock’ video recording on, so it continues even after
you lift your finger. And if you swipe the shutter to the
left, you can still take a giant pile of photos in Burst
mode – the feature that used to be triggered if you
held your finger on the shutter. (Also, longtime Apple
watchers will recognize the QuickTake name – before
it was an iPhone feature, it was the name of Apple’s
pioneering digital camera.) - The iPhone XR had to fake portrait mode using
machine learning to make guesses about depth, but
its successor, the iPhone 11, has a second camera.
That means it can finally do the real thing by using the
parallax between the two cameras to detect depth.
As a result,portraitmodeon the iPhone11 supports
non‑human subjects, whether they’re dogs or flowers. - The new widescreen selfie camera on the iPhone 11
is cropped to appear more or less like the current
iPhone selfie camera by default. You can get access
to the full widescreen image by turning the phone