iPhone XS could not be launched by the Apple company without a scandal starting around its series of phones, and because the world is very attentive to details, today we are talking about Selfiegate. More precisely, those who bought the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max discovered that when they take selfies, the skin color of the face is not natural, the phones changing the tonality of the colors to make the whole picture more "beautiful", as if applying a filter beautification.
The iPhone XS comes with a major difference compared to the iPhone X, or the older models of Apple phones, and in the picture below you can see how big the difference between the models is. Basically, the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max seem to eliminate the various imperfections of the face from the photos, as if you were applying makeup to hide spots, pimples, or anything else you don't like, the final result being much different from how the face looks in reality.
The iPhone XS Camera Problem and the Selfiegate Scandal
iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max do not record more "real" photos if the Smart HDR function is disabled by the user, so everything comes from the way the phones process the photos after recording. Of course, the iPhone XS series is not the first in which there would be a filter to remove imperfections from people's faces, but it is the first in which a filter of this kind is automatically applied to pictures recorded by users.
iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max do not only apply these changes to selfies, but also to pictures taken with the main camera, and the color change is also made to other elements in the picture. It is interesting that when the iPhone XS detects people's faces, the tonality of the colors changes compared to when other objects are registered, so it is clear that Apple has created a special software to make people more beautiful in photos.
