10.1 has depth of field for iPhone Plus

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[h=1]MacRumors Readers Share Beautiful Depth-of-Field Photos Shot With iPhone 7 Plus[/h]Wednesday September 28, 2016 4:17 pm PDT by Joe Rossignol
Apple released iOS 10.1 beta last week with a new "Portrait" mode on iPhone 7 Plus. The depth-of-field feature uses the smartphone's dual cameras and advanced machine learning to make the subject in the foreground sharp while creating an out-of-focus blur in the background, known as the bokeh effect.




Since then, several MacRumors readers have shared beautiful depth of field photos shot with iPhone 7 Plus. Many of the photos look like they were captured with a higher-end DSLR camera, which is impressive given how small the iPhone's cameras are. In many ways, the best camera truly is becoming the one you carry in your pocket.

MacRumors reader Bryan, for example, shared some photos he shot at the ArtPrize international art competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan this week. Each photo beautifully demonstrates Apple's artificial bokeh effect, achieved by combining two images from the wide-angle and telephoto lenses to create a depth map.

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The crowdsourced iPhone 7 Plus Photography topic in the MacRumors discussion forums has dozens of other great examples of both regular and depth of field photos, including this swimming pool portrait shared by reader erwheezy. Make sure to click the link ahead to read the full article with more examples.

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The depth-of-field effect requires iOS 10.1, currently in beta for developers and public testers. The update should be officially released in October.

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This I am excited about. Also looks like the 7 Plus might have a new RAM management system with the 10.1 which will make it even faster:

http://bgr.com/2016/09/28/iphone-7-plus-features-and-specifications-ios-10-1/ -


We all know that Apple’s new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are the fastest smartphones on the planet when it comes to real-world performance. Just look athow brutally the iPhone 7 beat Samsung’s best phone in a speed test. What’s interesting, however, is that early speed tests showed that the iPhone 7 Plus had no real advantage over the iPhone 7 despite having an extra gigabyte of RAM.
Some people speculated that the additional RAM was really only fully utilized for image processing — I even surmised as much in my iPhone 7 review. This may indeed be the case for the time being, but Apple appears to have made some big changes in its first iOS 10.1 beta.
In iOS builds older than iOS 10.1 beta 1, the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus regularly flush apps that have been minimized to the background. This means that when you switch back to an app, it needs to be refreshed again because the iPhone hasn’t saved its state. In iPhone 7 Plus units that have iOS 10.1 beta 1 installed, however, this is no longer the case.
I noticed the change shortly after updating, and it looks like some other iPhone 7 Plus users have noticed it as well. Far more apps have their states saved, which means faster overall performance since there is no longer any waiting for most apps to refresh when you switch back to them. The potential bad news is that iOS 10.1 is still a beta, and there’s no confirmation that the improved RAM management will make it to the release version. It would be odd for Apple to backtrack, of course, but we’ll still have to wait and see.
 
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