iPhone XS Max is at iDevice.ro from Friday, and I told you some of my first impressions of the new phone, that is, after using it for a few hours, after taking it out of the box. Today I thought I'd take some pictures with the new iPhone XS Max camera, but unfortunately Apple made it a bit difficult for those who don't want to just have a phone that you point at something and take pictures, Smart HDR being the change not so easy to understand.
The iPhone XS Max, and its smaller brother, no longer have the Auto HDR function, but Smart HDR, i.e. a kind of HDR, which theoretically should be easier to use, but which doesn't really work as well as before. If you activate the Smart HDR function for the iPhone XS Max camera, you have no idea when you take pictures with HDR, and when you take normal pictures, because there is no warning about this in the camera application, as there was before for automatic HDR .
What I DON'T LIKE about the iPhone XS Max and iOS 12 Camera
iPhone XS Max allows you to disable Smart HDR, and then you have the option to use HDR, I don't know if the old version, or the smart one, or not, but the option exists, even if it doesn't always save normal photos, even if you have activated the option. Returning to Smart HDR, sometimes the photos taken are HDR without a normal photo, sometimes they are without HDR, but you never know what exactly is saved because iOS 12 does not tell you if HDR is used for photos or not, only when you actually open them.
I don't know if this is a problem with iOS 12, or if this is how Smart HDR was intended to work, but it's absolutely stupid not to know when a picture is taken with HDR or not, unless you access it from the photo application. Leaving aside the problem with Smart HDR, the camera sometimes takes better pictures than those of the iPhone X, sometimes worse, all depending on how the operating system decides to apply HDR or not, sometimes the colors are exactly like in reality, sometimes not as in the "reality" of Apple.
