{"id":244789,"date":"2026-05-12T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/the-iphone-camera-app-is-being-revamped-for-professional-photographers-report-says\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:15:08","slug":"the-iphone-camera-app-is-being-revamped-for-professional-photographers-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/the-iphone-camera-app-is-being-revamped-for-professional-photographers-report-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone Camera App Is Being Revamped for \u2018Professional\u2019 Photographers, Report Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iPhone Camera App Is Being Revamped for \u2018Professional\u2019 Photographers, Report Says<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/the-iphone-camera-app-is-being-revamped-for-professional-photographers-report-says-2000757824<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-12 22:25:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

In the pre-smartphone days, if you wanted someone to take a picture of you in front of the Eiffel Tower or something, you first had to give them a little impromptu lesson on using your camera. An ambitious new iPhone update reported by Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman, but not yet confirmed by Apple, sounds like it would make the default camera app so customizable, it could bring that kind of befuddlement back to smartphone photography\u2014but only if the phone\u2019s owner chooses to set it up that way.<\/p>\n

Gurman, whose reporting comes as always from anonymous sources, writes that the impending updates, \u201cshould appeal to professional users.\u201d<\/p>\n

The physical side button that brought up camera controls starting with the iPhone 16 invited users to get adventurous with the device\u2019s more advanced features, and this app seems like the next step for the users who actually like that button. From the sound of it, the Camera app is going to become its own little ecosystem of sub-apps, called widgets, according to Bloomberg, which add new control options to \u201cthe top of the interface.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sounds as if advanced smartphone photographers get to make their Camera app truly their own, allowing them to have their favorite widgets ready all the time, to discard the widgets they don\u2019t want to see, or to just leave the Camera app as-is.<\/p>\n

Widgets, according to Gurman, will vary from function to function, and will live in an \u201cAdd Widgets\u201d tray that can be brought up from the bottom of the interface. So for taking still photos, there will be widgets that control things like exposure and depth-of-field. Widgets come with what sound like euphemistic difficulty settings: \u201cbasic,\u201d \u201cmanual,\u201d and \u201csettings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And you know that Controls button in the top-right corner of the Camera app that looks like a row of apps? Gurman says that\u2019s being relocated to just to the right of the shutter button.<\/p>\n

In addition to the new professional-grade features, Gurman writes…<\/p>\n

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