MARCH 2020 MACWORLD 53When you tap the Crop tool, Photos indicates there’s extra area by hinting at it as a blur beyond
the boundaries.
bug, or perhaps there’s an additional
indicator that needs to appear.
For images that actually have the
information present, you see a faint haze
surrounding the frame. You can drag
cropping edges or corners or pinch to
zoom or expand to access to the additional
image data, which immediately appears as
you change the crop.
What may be confusing,
however, is that the Crop tool
may already detect on
invoking it that the image
requires adjustment to make it
level. It relies on cues in the
background, and automatically
straightens or de-skews—new
in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13—when
you tap the Crop button.
If so, you see a brief
animation of the image
adjustment and a label appears
at the top of the image: aA tiny badge in Photos indicates image data outside the
frame was captured (red highlighting added).