Your iPhone's Camera app isn't the only place you can use Portrait mode for selfies. An easy-to-miss feature built right into iOS lets app developers leverage Apple's powerful Portrait mode effect in their own apps, so you can add a shallow focus effect to photos and videos when using the front-facing camera in FaceTime and apps like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Zoom. Apple first included the portrait-style photo and video effect for selfies on iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 for its FaceTime app, but it also opened up the image and video effect to third-party developers. The effect for the front... more
