iPhone 11 Pro Is the front camera shooting 12 megapixels?

[symphony]

Is the iPhone 11 Pro camera shooting 12 megapixels when it’s in the default zoomed in view?

Or is it cropped in? If you zoom out, isn’t that 12 megapixels?

 

[now i see it]

Zoom or not, 12 million pixels are captured by the sensor. Digital zoom just adds more pixels (to get 12 million) by interpolation between its neighboring pixels. Essentially they're fake pixels because they're not capturing information from the lens.

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