Apple’s 2021 iPhones will reportedly have a video portrait mode

Apple’s upcoming flagship iPhones, more likely to be referred to as the iPhone 13 line, will have the ability to routinely blur the backgrounds of footage as a part of a brand new video portrait mode, in line with a new report from Bloomberg. This “Cinematic Video” function is claimed to be certainly one of three main new digicam options coming to this yr’s iPhones. The different two are help for ProRes video recording, and new modifying choices for pictures.

The enhancements be part of one other digicam improve that’s believed to be on the way in which for this yr’s telephones. Last November, dependable Apple analyst Min-Chi Kuo mentioned that the telephones’ ultrawide cameras can be improved, with a bigger aperture for higher low-light pictures.

ProRes help might be particularly useful for video editors, giving them extra management over footage as soon as it’s already been shot. Its rumored arrival follows the addition of ProRAW help to Apple’s iPhone lineup final yr, which permits extra flexibility whereas modifying photographs. When it involves photographs, Bloomberg studies that this yr’s iPhones may have a brand new filters-style modifying function, which can let customers select a mode to use to their photographs. Unlike a filter, the brand new function will apply adjustments to particular parts inside photographs, moderately than uniformly throughout the entire shot.

Bloomberg re-iterates some earlier reporting about this yr’s units. It says the telephones may have quicker refresh charges, echoing a earlier rumor that this yr’s Pro fashions may have 120Hz LTPO shows. All iPhone 13 fashions may have smaller show notches, in addition to the standard increase to processing energy with a brand new A15 chip. However, Bloomberg says this yr’s updates might be “modest,” and there would be the identical number of fashions and display screen sizes as what we noticed final yr.

The report doesn’t point out when the brand new iPhones is likely to be introduced, however Apple tends to announce its flagship telephones in September every year (the exception was final yr, once they have been introduced in October as a result of pandemic). Other new Apple merchandise considered on the way in which embody new Apple Silicon-powered MacBook Pros, Apple Watches, AirPods, and iPads.