Halide 2.13 Features In-App Action Button Triggers on iPhone 15 Pro

Award-winning iPhone camera app Halide was today updated for iPhone 15 Pro models, and features a set of in-app triggers that work with the devices’ new Action button. With the Halide 2.13 app open on an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, the Action button can be pressed to trigger manual focus, auto/manual […]

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Spectre Long-Exposure iPhone Camera App Now Free, Ushering in Spectre Pro

Spectre, the long-exposure AI-powered iPhone camera app made by the developers of the popular Halide photography app, is now free. For those unfamiliar with Spectre, the app uses a computational shutter to take hundreds of photos over the course of a few seconds to create an up to 3-second long exposure. Because it’s taking hundreds […]

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Halide’s New Feature Lets You Take Virtual Telephoto Shots on Non-Pro iPhones

iPhone 14 Pro models feature a telephoto camera lens with 3x optical zoom, allowing users to take close-up photos of far-away objects without compromising quality. Such telephoto features are limited to Apple’s Pro models, but thanks the latest update to popular third-party camera app Halide, users with non-Pro iPhones can now also get in on […]

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Halide Developer Highlights Hidden Macro Camera Feature in 2021 iPad Pro

When Apple releases a new product with upgraded camera technology, the developers behind popular photography app Halide often take a deep dive into the revamped camera features to provide us with some insight into how things work behind the scenes. Halide developer Sebastian de With today shared a look at the cameras in the new […]

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Award-Winning iPhone Camera App Halide Expands to iPad With New ‘Pro View’

Just three days before the new iPad Pro begins arriving to customers, the developers of award-winning iPhone camera app Halide have announced the release of an iPad app, complete with a custom user interface that takes advantage of the larger screen. To keep the viewfinder minimally obscured, the iPad app has an expandable “honeycomb” of […]

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Halide Does Deep Dive Into iPhone SE’s Software-Based Portrait Mode

Though it is a budget device with a single-lens camera, the iPhone SE features support for Portrait Mode, enabled through the powerful A13 chip in the smartphone. It is the first of Apple’s smartphones to offer Portrait Mode photos created entirely with software techniques rather than hardware, which prompted the developers behind popular iOS camera […]

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