If you like using Portrait mode for selfies on your iPhone, there's a hidden feature you need to check out that adds a shallow depth of field effect to video when using the front-facing camera in FaceTime and even third-party apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Zoom. Apple first included the portrait-style video effect for selfies in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for its FaceTime app, but it also opened up the video effect to third-party developers. The effect for the front camera uses the Neural Engine, "plus a trained monocular depth network to approximate a real camera with a wide-open... more
