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I previously tested the difference the wider aperture of the iPhone 18 Pro makes when it comes to depth of field. The executive summary is that the difference is small, but definitely present.

Alongside a variable aperture lens, the main camera of the iPhone 18 Pro also opens up to a wider aperture than its predecessors. Apple has been promoting this as enabling a shallower depth of field for portraits and similar shots.

Award-winning camera app Halide Mark III has been updated to version 3.2, bringing dedicated support for iPhone 18 Pro by broadening user control over the device’s new variable aperture camera system.

In May, Lux Optics launched the all-new Halide Mark III pro camera app for iPhone. Today, Halide is back with its first update for iPhone 18 Pro, plus new features for all iPhone photographers.

If you want to get professional with your videos, you should check out Final Cut Camera on your iPhone. The Apple-owned app features recording and shooting options that you won’t find in the normal Camera app, including exposure control and monitoring tools that pros use.

Every major iPhone camera upgrade over the past decade has followed a familiar playbook: larger sensors, higher megapixel counts, and heavier doses of computational photography. With the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, Apple is introducing something entirely mechanical that aims to give photographers more creative control than ever before: a variable aperture…