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Apple to fix iPhone camera flare

Apple to fix iPhone camera flare

A solution is pending for a longtime gripe.

Leander Kahney
April 15, 2024

A common complaint about the iPhone’s camera is that it produces unwanted glares and flares in photos and videos.

Personally, I like a bit of lens flare every now and again: It gives pictures a J.J. Abrams look. (The movie director is famous for using camera flare — sometimes gratuitously.)

But flares and glares often show up when they are not wanted, ruining pics. The good news is, Apple may finally have found a fix.

Also in today’s newsletter:

After Apple relaxed rules about emulators, a Game Boy emulator appeared this weekend on the App Store. But don’t go looking for it — it’s already gone, but not for reasons you might suspect.
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This weekend, I tried to get through the first episode of Apple TV+’s new detective thriller Sugar, which stars the usually awesome Colin Farrell. Looks like I’m alone in hating it: It’s already a hit for the streaming service.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.

Apple could finally fix iPhone’s longstanding camera flare problem

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iPhone shipments take a surprise nosedive

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First iPhone Game Boy emulator quickly disappears from App Store

After a Game Boy emulator appears in the iPhone App Store, it vanishes, following a developer's complaint that the dodgy app is a rip-off.

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Colin Farrell’s gritty detective series ‘Sugar’ becomes an immediate hit

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Delete junk files and free up space on your Mac with MacCleanse

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Grab a great deal on M1 iMac while you can

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Tweetz o’ the day

Phuong Vu and his team are wildly creative. They showed me how they use iPhone, iPad, and Mac to bring everything and anything from their imagination to life in Nirvana Space - an artistic workshop like no other!
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I haven’t charged my iPhone 15 Plus in 4 days and it’s at 28% 😱
— Rjey (@RjeyTech)
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the Masters Tournament experience on the Apple Vision Pro is a hole-in-one!
you can watch up to four video streams at once, check out each hole in 3D, and it comes with the iconic leaderboard.
it's available for free now on the AppStore. ⛳️
— Justin Ryan ᯅ (@justinryanio)
Apr 14, 2024

I took an inCharge X Max on my trip to watch the eclipse. It was very useful. I needed a 5-foot charging cable several times, and support for both USB-A and USB-C saved me from dealing with adapters.
— Ed Hardy (@EdFromFreelance)
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One more thing ...

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I saw the craziness of the Western world as well as its capacity for rational thought. If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things — that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It’s a discipline; you have to practice it.

— Steve Jobs, 2011.

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