It even works with cats and dogs!

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TheiPhone’s Portrait Modeis no longer a cool-but-awkward gimmick.

Now, it’s an essential, automatic, and surprisingly flexible tool.

Portrait adjustments in the iPhone’s Photos app

Portrait adjustments in the iPhone’s Photos app.Apple

You just shoot and choose what you were taking pictures of later.

With this knowledge, it applies a blur to the parts of the image that aren’t your subject.

But now, with the iPhones 15 and 15 Pro, it’s automatic.

A portrait of a white woman in dramatic lighting

Portrait taken with iPhone 15.Apple

And if you tap a subject on the screen to focus on it, depth data will be captured.

And this even works in the dark, thanks to the LiDAR.

Flexible Portrait Effect

That’s already a fantastic upgrade, but there’s more.

The iPhone 15 camera app

iPhone 15 Camera App.Apple

This change means that you’ve got the option to now choose your photo’s subject after takingit.

“[H]aving it auto-detect a portrait is such a great choice.

There are a few reasons to still use a bigger camera.