From Action mode in the iPhone 14 and later, which applies really heavy video stabilization to your hand-held shots, to the new portrait features in the iPhone 15 phones, there are lots of new photography features that your old phone probably didn’t offer.
To use Action Mode open the camera app, switch to Video mode, and tap the little “action” button to enable it. Video should be stable even if you are running while recording with the phone.
Portrait Mode and Portrait Lighting make for really beautiful shots of people and, for, the iPhone 15-series, animals. You can adjust the depth of field for these portraits to create more or less background blur.
Cinematic Mode arrived with the iPhone 13 and lets you focus on the subject in a video in a similar way to how Portrait Mode works with photos. There’s even automatic focus tracking.
Macro Photography is only available for the Pro iPhones, but if you have a Pro or Pro Max iPhone you can take really detailed close-ups.
Photographic Styles arrived with the iPhone 13 and lets you customize the image processing pipeline to give your photos a slightly different tone. Open the Camera app, switch to Photo mode, and swipe upward to show the little camera control buttons. You can also select your Photographic Style in Settings > Camera > Photographic Styles.
Super zoom: If you have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, you have the only iPhone with a 5X zoom lens, which lets you get closer than ever to far-away subjects. To test it out, tap one of the zoom buttons in the viewfinder or pinch the screen to zoom.
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From Action mode in the iPhone 14 and later, which applies really heavy video stabilization to your hand-held shots, to the new portrait features in the iPhone 15 phones, there are lots of new photography features that your old phone probably didn’t offer.
To use Action Mode open the camera app, switch to Video mode, and tap the little “action” button to enable it. Video should be stable even if you are running while recording with the phone.
Portrait Mode and Portrait Lighting make for really beautiful shots of people and, for, the iPhone 15-series, animals. You can adjust the depth of field for these portraits to create more or less background blur.
Cinematic Mode arrived with the iPhone 13 and lets you focus on the subject in a video in a similar way to how Portrait Mode works with photos. There’s even automatic focus tracking.
Macro Photography is only available for the Pro iPhones, but if you have a Pro or Pro Max iPhone you can take really detailed close-ups.
Photographic Styles arrived with the iPhone 13 and lets you customize the image processing pipeline to give your photos a slightly different tone. Open the Camera app, switch to Photo mode, and swipe upward to show the little camera control buttons. You can also select your Photographic Style in Settings > Camera > Photographic Styles.
Super zoom: If you have an iPhone 15 Pro Max, you have the only iPhone with a 5X zoom lens, which lets you get closer than ever to far-away subjects. To test it out, tap one of the zoom buttons in the viewfinder or pinch the screen to zoom.
For more read Which iPhone has the best camera?