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Should You Be Shooting Photos in ProRAW on Your iPhone?
Summary ProRAW captures raw photos on iPhone, preserving sensor data for enhanced editing flexibility. The benefits of shooting in ProRAW include greater dynamic range, white balance adjustment, and higher quality images. ProRAW images also have downsides like massive image sizes and less impressive results before editing. Apple introduced the ability to capture ProRAW photos on the iPhone 12, and it’s…
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Stop Your iPhone From Sharing Photos’ Data With Apple
When you think about data privacy on the iPhone, the focus is usually on ad tracking companies and other third-parties that might be siphoning off your personal information without you knowing about it. Unfortunately, it’s time to start paying attention to the data that Apple itself collects, too. Although Apple has continually repeated its commitment to privacy, the company hasn’t…
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Is your iPhone sharing photos with Apple by default?
Sure enough, when I checked my iPhone 15 Pro this morning, the toggle was switched to on. You can find it for yourself by going to Settings > Photos (or System Settings > Photos on a Mac). Enhanced Visual Search lets you look up landmarks you’ve taken pictures of or search for those images using the names of those landmarks.…
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8 iPhone Accessories for Better Photos
The iPhone is lauded for its camera quality and ease of use, but what if you squeeze even better results out of your smartphone? The good news is you can, provided you’ve got the right accessories for the job. 1 Camera Mount and Tripod Sensyne Using a tripod is a simple, but powerful way to improve your iPhone photography. The…
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Where Do FaceTime Photos Go on a Mac?
When you’re on a FaceTime call, you would have noticed the camera shutter button to take a picture and capture a special moment. There can be instances when you’ve captured some fun-filled moments and are now wondering where FaceTime photos are stored on a Mac. Well, you need not worry. Whether you wish to enable FaceTime photos or are having…
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How to (Mostly) Fix the New iPhone Photos App
Apple gave the Photos app an overhaul in iOS 18. Credit: Apple Not all of the changes ushered in with iOS 18 have been popular with users, and the revamped Photos app in particular has been getting a lot of negative feedback over its new layout. When your fingers and thumbs have got used to a certain way of working,…
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How to open Photos in Windows (9 ways)
Navigating through your digital photos should be one of the easiest things to do. Fortunately, the Photos app in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is designed to make that happen. It doesn’t matter if you want to see, organize, or edit your pictures, you can do it with this app’s user-friendly interface and handy tools. If you’ve ever found yourself…
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Your iPhone Can Now Automatically Remove Location Data From Photos You Share Online
When you share photos or videos from your iPhone, you’re often also sharing the exact location where the photo was taken. Your iPhone logs the location of each picture by default, which is useful because it allows you to search for photos by location. This feature has helped me quickly find the exact picture I’m looking for, but at the…
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How to use the latest AI video editing tools in Google Photos
Google Photos continues to get new and improved features on a regular basis, and one of the most recent Android updates has focused on video editing. Even if you don’t have the latest Pixel 9 phone (which is required if you want to try out the weird new Reimagine tool), you can now speed up, slow down, and enhance your…
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Google Photos is getting an Updates page to help you follow changes to shared albums
Google Photos is making it easier to follow activity in your shared albums with a new “Updates” section. In the new section, you’ll be able to see notifications like updates to a shared album and updates to a conversation within Google Photos, according to a support post from Google. The Updates section can be found by tapping a bell icon…
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