The iPhone SE offers many things for the money, but a powerful portrait mode isn’t one of them. Much like the iPhone XR, you’re stuck taking portrait photos of people if you use the default camera app — a problem at a time when you’re supposed to avoid most human contact. You won’t have to settle for plain shots if you’re willing to get third-party tools, though. Halide (which also rescued the iPhone XR) has updated its flagship Camera app and Spectre long-exposure app to enable portrait mode shots for all objects, not just humans. If you want bokeh for your pet shots and flower close-ups, it should be all you need. Show The Halide Camera and Spectre apps cost $6 and $3 respectively. That’s a bargain compared to dropping the $300 extra it would take to get an iPhone 11 with native portrait shots, though, and it throws in a range of manual controls and features you won’t get out of the box with any iPhone. Think of this as a way to take mobile photography seriously without splurging on a higher-end device. All products recommended by Engadget are selected by our editorial team, independent of our parent company. Some of our stories include affiliate links. If you buy something through one of these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. All prices are correct at the time of publishing. While the iPhone XR is capable of many of the same camera features as the iPhone X and iPhone XS, one area in which it falls short is Portrait mode. iPhone XR Portrait mode is limited to only working on people, not objects and animals like other iPhone models. The developers behind the popular camera app Halide, however, say they have found depth data on the iPhone XR and can enable Portrait mode for non-people. With the stock Camera app on iOS, if you try to take an iPhone XR Portrait mode image of your pet or an object, a message will appear that reads “no person detected.” Switch to a person, and everything works perfectly. This is seemingly a software limitation, as Apple is relying heavily on software to mimic the camera features of dual-camera iPhones on the single-lens iPhone XR. In a post on Reddit, however, the Halide developers revealed that they currently have Portrait mode working on pets through their app. They go on to explain that “with some more tooling,” they’ll likely be able to release a version of the Halide app that enables iPhone XR Portrait mode on all sorts of subjects. There seem to be a couple of pitfalls here, at least in the feature’s current form. For one, Halide developers say iPhone XR Portrait mode seems to be “more temperamental in some settings” than the iPhone XS. Additionally, they note that the depth map on the iPhone XR is lower resolution than the dual-camera iPhones, but that it “seems usable.”
Portrait mode being limited to just faces is one of the biggest downfalls of the iPhone XR camera for many people. Nevertheless, it looks like that might change thanks to the Halide app, which is a $5.99 download on the App Store.
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Which iPhone has Portrait mode for objects?Portrait mode is available on iPhone SE (2nd generation) and later, iPhone X and later, as well as iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus.
Does Portrait mode only work on faces?When you shoot on front camera, it should work on any object. Note: When you use the rear camera on iPhone XR, a person's face must be detected in the viewfinder to take a Portrait mode photo.
Can Portrait mode be of animals?Once it rolls out to your Android phone, you'll be able to use it on any compatible photo you want. This means that you can do Portrait mode pics of your first dog — assuming you tagged their pictures for easier reminiscing — just as easily as the one you should be scritching behind the ears right now.
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