The iPhone XS has presented what for many users are "few improvements" over the versions previously offered on the iPhone X, although it is true that Apple does not seem to have broken a plate with the launch of this new improved version of the iPhone X, some of the functionalities are beginning to be taken into account, an example is the advanced functionalities of the camera, incomprehensibly only available on the iPhone XS.
The experts at Halide, considered the best camera for iOS present in the App Store, have taken a look at these new features and this is your verdict.
They have referred about the unwanted beauty effect that the front camera of the iPhone XS seems to apply, present for example in the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that we have been testing for a few weeks and that is quite noticeable. These kinds of "improvements" have always been repudiated on the iPhone, dedicated to delivering realistic color images with natural processing. However, the experts at Halide indicate that this is due to an aggressive noise reduction that combines different exposure settings to eliminate excess brightness as much as possible and thus soften contrasts, in short, it is a "beauty mode" in all rule, at least Android phones allow you to turn it off.
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The iPhone XS in short seems to offer a better performance of the processing of the images taken, something that goes beyond a simple technical improvement of the camera. This could not only indicate that the iPhone XS and iPhone X cameras are almost identical, but also that these improvements could be expanded by software, despite the fact that Apple does not seem to want it.