Apple admits people weren’t hallucinating ‘Beautygate’

Beauty is in the eye of the iPhone beholder.

Apple is fixing a bug in its smart front camera system that made for unnaturally filtered-looking selfies. Apple confirmed to The Verge that the phenomenon some iPhone users dubbed “Beautygate” was indeed a thing, and not the imagination of paranoid selfie-takers.

Beautygate was not the work of a filter. Apparently, the dynamic camera system was using a less detailed base frame for its composite images. That loss of detail is what gave the appearance of a smoothing filter. Read more…

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