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article.)
A related option works in concert with
Capture Outside The Frame. Auto Apply
Adjustments, a switch in the same area in
Settings (turned on by default), causes the
Camera app to try to straighten and
improve photos and videos shot at 1x
without you having to intervene at all.
(Apple’s documentation says if an
automatic adjustment is applied, you see a
blue AUTO badge in the media-browsing
mode, but I haven’t seen this appear in
any form yet.)
There doesn’t seem to be a penalty to
leaving that option turned on, however, as
you can still adjust images later, even if the
Camera app has already applied its
suggested improvement.
USE CAPTURE OUTSIDE THE
FRAME
With the option enabled, you’ll notice that
when you’re shooting either in the 1x
mode on any of the iPhone 11 models or
the 2x mode on an iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro
Max, a dimmed area appears outside the
main camera frame indicating the over-
captured image. In portrait mode, that’s
above and below the framed area; in
landscape, it’s at left and right.
This additional information is acquired
from the next wider camera on the phone
and then scaled down to match—no detail
is lost, but the extra data is downsampled,
or reduced in pixel density. In 1x mode, the
next lens “down” is the ultra-wide-angle
lens, while the primary image comes from
the wide-angle one. When shooting in 2x
on a Pro model, the telephoto lens is
supplemented with the wide-angle
camera.
When you first bring up the Camera
app, that shaded area doesn’t appearIn the Camera settings in iOS 13, you need to
switch on Photos Capture Outside The Frame
to use the over-capture feature.