Best Camera Apps to Reduce iPhone Processing (2026)
Best Camera Apps to Reduce iPhone Processing (2026) Apple’s computational photography system produces consistently polished images, but it can also introduce heavy sharpening, boosted contrast, and colour shifts that don’t always reflect the original scene. For photographers seeking more natural results, third-party camera apps provide greater control over how images are captured — often reducing or bypassing Apple’s default processing pipeline entirely. Below are the best camera apps for achieving a more natural, less processed look on iPhone. If you want more natural-looking iPhone photos with less aggressive processing, these apps offer the most control — many also support RAW capture for maximum flexibility. Best Camera Apps to Reduce iPhone…
iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera Review
We’re very excited to publish Austin Mann’s Apple iPhone 12 Pro Max Camera review, don’t miss this! We couldn’t rate his work higher, if we tried. hello from zion national park, ut! “We’ve been adventuring through canyons, rivers, mountains, and more with the iPhone 12 Pro Max and have learned a lot along the way. In case you missed it, I posted my iPhone 12 Pro review from Glacier National Park a few weeks ago and we found significant camera improvements, driven mainly by major software upgrades. Be sure to check it out as most of my focus today will be on the major hardware upgrades of the iPhone 12 Pro Max,…
Breaking News…Halide Mark II – Pro Camera is Here!
We mentioned earlier this week that Halide Mark II was coming. Well, now it is here, sitting in the App Store! Halide is an App Store Editor’s Choice, award-winning camera from the team behind Spectre, Apple’s App of the Year of 2019. Halide is the most powerful iPhone camera with the most elegant, simple design — a pro camera for everyone. So, you want to know what’s new in this version? Take a look below… We mentioned Halide Mark II in our Best Mobile Photography Apps (2026 Edition)
App Photo School – Adjust exposure with a swipe – Halide RAW Manual camera for iPhone
Ssssshhhh… there’s a brand-new Halide 2 about to drop, so we thought: just in case you’re one of the minority who doesn’t know about this excellent app, we’d get you up to speed on Halide 1 so you’re ready to make the switch. In this video, you’ll learn how quickly Halide lets you adjust exposure with just a swipe… We mentioned Halide Mark II in our Best Mobile Photography Apps (2026 Edition) Requires iOS 11.0 and watchOS 4.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Mobile Photography – Halide Camera App Updated for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro
Halide have developed an update to their popular mobile photography app specifically for the new Apple iPhone 11 and iPhone Pro. The latest update includes a tactile lens switcher, allowing for a fast and intuitive way to switch between the Wide, Ultra Wide and Telephoto lenses on the iPhone Pro. What makes this switcher really unique is that once you’re familiar with the menu, you can press-and-flick from the lens button to quickly change lenses. This is a fast, natural way to switch lenses.
Brand New Mobile Photography App – Spectre – Announced by the developers of Halide Camera
Rumoured for some time, but now Spectre is available in the App Store. Spectre is an AI-powered shutter for your iPhone, allowing the user to create interesting long exposures. The long exposures are live in the moment. Spectre saves the entire exposure process as a Live Photo, allowing the user to re-play the exposure as it happened. We hope to learn more about Spectre in the coming days as we put it through our processes. In the meantime, you can download it here.
Mobile Photography & Art – Tip of the Day – Tell Siri To Fire The Shutter Button
We are re-igniting our Tip of the Day section and we have a great one here that’s going to be of huge use to many photographers and to my mind it’s a feature that ought to be written into camera firmware too. Siri, up and until now, has not been able to handle the prospect of literally firing the shutter button. It was possible to tell Siri to open the camera but not to fire the button but now there is a way! You’re going to need the Halide app for this. If you haven’t already downloaded it, I recommend that you do so. Just click here and then follow…
Mobile Photography – Black Friday Photography & Art App Discounts Today
There are some great deals coming through today for Black Friday in the iOS App Store. We’ve searched for the deals most appropriate to our readers, please take a look and grab some bargains if you can today. Please note that these deals are subject to change and this totally out of our hands. Halide – RAW Manual Camera Halide is a groundbreaking camera app for deliberate and thoughtful photography. With high-end tools and beautiful details, Halide is your go-to camera when you want to really take a photo rather than a quick snapshot. Normally $4.99 – Today $2.99/Download PhotoPills PhotoPills is your iPhone and iPad personal assistant…
Mobile Photography – Hailde for iPhone App Giveaway Today!
There’s no question that Halide is one of the smartest camera apps, developed by some of the smartest app developers in the world. Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan de With. Sandofsky is a former Tech Consultant to HBO’s Silicon Valley, and used to be the tech lead of Twitter for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. de With is an ex-Apple designer and photographer that runs the San Francisco design shop Rune, which recently designed the Nylas email client. Halide gesture-based interface makes it fast and easy to change exposure and manual focus. It has customizable controls that adapt to your needs. Halide’s features include focus peaking, a detailed histogram, adaptive level grid,…
New! Mobile Photography – App of The Day – Halide – RAW Manual Camera
Halide is described in its developers literature as ‘a groundbreaking camera app for deliberate and thoughtful photography‘. This could well be true, if nothing else, it is a premium camera app for your phone and worthy of your attention. The app is developed by Ben Sandofsky and Sebastiaan de With. Sandofsky is a former tech lead on Twitter for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Sebastiaan de With is a former designer for Apple. The developers have just updated Halide to fully support iOS 11 and it offers more features than ever before. If you’ve been searching for a elegant gesture based camera alternative app, Halide might just fit your requirements. It…
