iPhone XS: A look at the new camera (and debunking the ‘beauty filter’)

PetaPixel:

iPhone XS has a completely new camera. It’s not just a different sensor, but an entirely new approach to photography that is new to iOS. Since it leans so heavily on merging exposures and computational photography, images may look quite different from those you’ve taken in similar conditions on older iPhones.

I suspected something like this was happening when I first heard of this issue last week. I couldn’t test it myself (I don’t have a new iPhone) and don’t have the technical chops Sebastiaan de With of Halide does to explain it but he does a great job of helping us to understand what is going on and why.