Dan Pražák With yesterday's arrival iOS 13.2 beta The expected Deep Fusion feature arrived on iPhone 11 and 11 Pro (Max), which is an advanced image processing system when taking pictures with the new iPhones. Thanks to Deep Fusion, photos taken in medium lighting are noticeably better quality, and above all, they are significantly richer in various details. Although it may seem to many that a software function alone cannot significantly improve images, the opposite is true. Probably the first ever Deep Fusion test clearly shows that iPhones 11 will take even better photos after updating to iOS 13.2.
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Petr Škuta In a way, Deep Fusion can be compared to night mode, which the new iPhones also have. But while Night mode is activated in really low light, i.e. especially at night, Deep Fusion has the task of improving photos in medium light, i.e. in darkness or inside buildings. It is also important to know that Deep Fusion is activated completely automatically in the background, and the mode cannot be turned on/off anywhere in the settings or directly in the Camera application.
Although the feature is currently in the testing phase and is part of the beta version of iOS 13.2, it is already showing really interesting results. First photo test published Tyler Stalman on Twitter, he shows how thanks to Deep Fusion, the rendering of individual details has noticeably improved. Due to the fact that the function cannot be activated or deactivated in any way, Stalman compared the photos taken by the iPhone XR with the Smart HDR function and the iPhone 11 with Deep Fusion. However, he also added images from two different iPhone 11 Pros, the first one using Smart HDR (iOS 13.1) and the second with Deep Fusion (iOS 13.2). You can see the result in the gallery below.
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Deep Fusion uses the capabilities of the powerful A13 Bionic chip and its new Neural Engine, when the captured photo is subsequently processed pixel by pixel with the help of machine learning, thereby optimizing textures, details and possible noise in each part of the image. Before the shutter is pressed, three pictures are taken in the background with a short exposure time. Subsequently, by pressing the shutter button, the phone captures three more classic photos and then one additional one with a long exposure with all the details. An algorithm created by Apple then combines the images in a sophisticated way and all the details are highlighted. The result is one truly high-quality image. We wrote a few days ago how exactly Deep Fusion works step by step in this article.
I don't want to step on anyone's apple corns, but with how much is expected for this feature and how much Apple is making it difficult... you can't see the difference at first glance. It looks more like they turned off face smoothing and set the sharpness to 110%.