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New Texture and Grain Controls Coming to Photographic Styles With iPhone 18 Pro

Apple today announced new texture and grain controls for Photographic Styles with the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max.

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Photographic Styles are tone presets that adjust the color and warmth of a photo as it is captured, rather than as a filter applied afterward, while preserving skin tones.

The ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max gain a redesigned computational imaging pipeline for the 48-megapixel Fusion Main camera that Apple says produces sharper, more detailed shots. The new texture and grain controls build on that pipeline, allowing users to further dial in their desired appearance for more creative control over their photos.

It is not clear if older iPhone models such as the iPhone 17 Pro, which otherwise support the latest version of Photographic Styles, will receive the feature via a software update.

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Top Rated Comments

1 week ago
This is peak Apple, hiding pure software features behind a new hardware purchase. I hope that NoFusion can emulate this, too like they did with Photographic Styles before.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 week ago
Would be great if at least 17 Pro/Pro Max gets it but it is possible that it is only for the latest iPhones. Hopefully there will be more information soon.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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1 week ago

More fakery! What a world are we becoming.
A world that has you brainwashed apparently. The fakery was in the OVERPROCESSED look of Apple's image pipeline that was becoming very very apparent in recent years. This new setting allows that to be toned down for a more textured and film-like look that the world had for generations before computational photography.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 week ago
Another thing the variable aperture does is starbursts now follow its 5 petal design rather than random/full bursts, this plus the built in grain engine and skin texture options may make this feel like a substantial jump towards a real camera after years of going for the overprocessed look
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 week ago



* Photographic Styles - iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max
* Photographic Styles 2 - iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max
* Photographic Styles 3 - iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max

Whats the difference between them?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
1 week ago
Would prefer less processing, not more.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)