Apple said to be working on fixing 'aggressive' skin smoothing in iPhone XS photos
Apple is working to solve complaints about excessive smoothing in photos shot with the iPhone XS front-facing camera, which can make images seem fake or even out of focus.
Image Credit: chemicalsam on Reddit
The problem can be seen in photos shared on Reddit, and multiple threads on the site have described Apple's processing as looking like "really poor Photoshopping," "a Snapchat filter," or a "beauty filter." In some instances a person's skin may change to an unnatural color.
AppleInsider has confirmed with sources not authorized to speak on behalf of the company that Apple is looking into the situation. At the same time, we have been told that the effect is not applied universally. It has not manifested on any of the iPhone XS devices that AppleInsider has purchased for review or personal use.
Intelligent photo processing is one of Apple's major bulletpoints for the XS. The phone joins a custom image signal processor with the A12 chip's Neural Engine to enhance photos both before and after shooting, for instance through facial landmarking and Smart HDR.
At present, there isn't any commonality in skin tone or features in the examples to suggest that any one variable is responsible for the effect. Based on the images provided, it appears that the issue is in software, and not hardware, and should be rectifiable with a patch to iOS.
Image Credit: chemicalsam on Reddit
The problem can be seen in photos shared on Reddit, and multiple threads on the site have described Apple's processing as looking like "really poor Photoshopping," "a Snapchat filter," or a "beauty filter." In some instances a person's skin may change to an unnatural color.
AppleInsider has confirmed with sources not authorized to speak on behalf of the company that Apple is looking into the situation. At the same time, we have been told that the effect is not applied universally. It has not manifested on any of the iPhone XS devices that AppleInsider has purchased for review or personal use.
Intelligent photo processing is one of Apple's major bulletpoints for the XS. The phone joins a custom image signal processor with the A12 chip's Neural Engine to enhance photos both before and after shooting, for instance through facial landmarking and Smart HDR.
At present, there isn't any commonality in skin tone or features in the examples to suggest that any one variable is responsible for the effect. Based on the images provided, it appears that the issue is in software, and not hardware, and should be rectifiable with a patch to iOS.
Comments
Don't you mean "sans the word 'not'"?
The headline is misleading, bordering on incorrect.
Dunno, I've never felt the need to take my own picture, but I have friends who spend a lot of their free time doing it for Facebook, and applying all sorts of odd effects that make them look like their plastic surgeon was high on crack while working.
Facebook has admitted that it uses your 2-factor authentication phone number to target you for advertising.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your-2fa-phone-number-to-target-you-with-ads/
This company has somehow discovered an infinite pit of scumminess.
What's really annoying is that I've never given them my phone number, but they got it while culling through my friends' contacts and then matching it up.
And then not allow you to turn it off until you reboot the phone.
Speaking of which, it’s been a week since the new products were released and we still don’t have a bona fide “-gate” yet. What are the haters up to this time?
Besides that being un-official, "looking into" isn't the same as "working on fixing". The words have different meanings. Maybe they will, maybe they won't -- but nothing provided in that sentence confirms the assertion made in the headline.