- Apple has just announced a new iOS 26 software update for iPhones
- One of the big changes is a redesign of Apple Chamber application
- New modes of photo and videos optimized to facilitate use
The iPhone camera application has been treated with a generous help of new features in recent years, from photographic styles to Apple Poraw. But one thing that Apple has not failed is to organize all these characteristics in a way that has a real intuitive sense, so far, thanks to iOS 26.
Now, instead of having a confusing row of eight characteristics on the shutter button, which often I am moving accidentally, Apple is reducing that initial menu to two things: photo and video.
Apple says that it has done this because they are, of course, the two most used camera modes, and that spring cleaning has spent a lot of time. Once you are in one of those two ways, simply slide to the left or the right to reveal the related modes inside them.
For example, in video mode, Swiping brings both Slo-Mo mode and cinematographic mode, that is useful, because ‘cinematic’ could be interpreted as a video mode or image fixation, but in reality it refers to Apple computational bokeh during the video.
Perhaps even better, slide reveals a menu of ‘liquid glass’ (above) that is much clearer than the current confusing disorder of arcana icons. Now, you get names along with those ways, such as styles (for photographic styles) and appearance for the appearance relationship. Everything seems like a small improvement, but very welcome.
Finally, Apple has also tied the video pictures and resolution menu. In iOS 18, those sit in the upper right corner of the application, and do not get a drop -down menu to see the options for cycling. But in iOS 26, a new frosted glass panel shows all frame rate options for each resolution.
It is an improvement, but where is the pro mode?
This iOS 26 update for the application of the camera means that some features are a little more out of view than before, but that is fine for me. It has been increasingly messy and messy, with Apple slowly adding characteristics to an interface that was not designed to house so many options.
But one thing is still for me. I have expected that the iPhones can obtain a Pro photo mode for some years, but unfortunately there are still no signs of one in iOS 26. Apple has shown signs of moving in that direction with video, but only with separate applications as final cut Pro for iPad.
To be fair, Apple has added many characteristics of pro-amypable photos to iOS, many of which are hidden in its configuration menu. I have gathered many of those adjustments in my guide on how to configure your iPhone 16 to take excellent photos in 2025.
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But another simple solution to hide the disorder of the camera’s application would be to have an alternative that turns it between the ways ‘point and shoot’ and ‘Pro’. The Redesign of iOS 26 seems a solid experience of aiming and shooting, but a professional mode (perhaps assigned to the action button) could quickly turn it into something like a Fujifilm X100VI when mentioning additional controls as manual approach or approach peak.
That would be my ideal camera application configuration, making the iPhone two cameras in one. But it is possible that Apple is worried about ‘sherlocking’ some of the best camera applications such as ProCamera, Haluro or Camera Darkest, which could be seen as a false PAS taking into account that many of these have starred in their annual APP Store awards.
(Sherlocking is the word of the Apple community for when a popular application is killed by Apple that offers the same functionality integrated in its software, named for a tool called Sherlock that was eclipsed by the MAC care function).
Even so, despite the fact that Apple does not have a PRO mode in its camera application this time, its image change iOS 26 remains a change of welcome image that should make photos on iPhones compatible with the new operating system as a more fun experience (and less stressful).
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