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Apple Releases iOS 10.1 With New Portrait Mode For iPhone 7 Plus (macrumors.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the blurry-background dept.

Apple has released iOS 10.1 to the public today for all iOS 10 users, and with it comes several new features, a long list of bug fixes, and various other under-the-hood improvements. One of the biggest new features introduced is a new "Portrait" mode, which uses the dual cameras in the iPhone 7 Plus to create shallow depth of field portrait photos with plenty of background bokeh. MacRumors reports: To achieve the blurred look, the image signal processor in the device uses the wide-angle camera to create a depth map while the telephoto captures an image, dissecting the different layers of the photo to decide what to blur with an artful "bokeh" effect. It works on people, pets, and objects, but it does require good lighting to achieve the proper results. The update also [...] brings Transit directions to Japan for the first time. There have been some tweets to the Messages app. It's now possible to play Bubble and Screen effects in Messages with Reduce Motion enabled, something that wasn't previously possible. There's also a new option to replay Bubble and Screen effects. It's important to the note that the "Portrait" mode is still in beta, and will not work flawlessly. Mac Rumors has a full list of the changes made to iOS 10.1 embedded in their report, which you can view here.

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  1. Stop telling my aging iPhone 5 to upgrade! by bjdevil66 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apple: Please -- PLEASE -- stop telling me to upgrade my aging iPhone 5 to iOS10 every. damn. day.

    It's as bad or worse than the stupid Windows 10 upgrade warnings/updates in Windows 7 -- and there's no way to stop the prompts. (Yes, you can manually block their update server hosts in your wireless router, but you'd never better walk away from that WAP or ever use cell data - all of which kind of defeats the point of mobile computing.)

    Yes, I get that supporting multiple versions of iOS is expensive and resource intensive; But just push out a warning to inform me when you're going to stop supporting iOS9 at a set day/time. I'll have a decision to make - at THAT point. Leave me alone until then!