Now that Portrait Mode is supported in FaceTime, does this mean I will be able to utilize this effect when taking a video?
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Portrait Mode for video?
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You can use the portrait mode effect in any app by enabling it in the control center.
what’s funny though is you can’t enable this in the actual camera app. I was able to take a front facing video using the camera recorder in Discord and I was able to use the native portrait mode on a Google Meet call.
what’s funny though is you can’t enable this in the actual camera app. I was able to take a front facing video using the camera recorder in Discord and I was able to use the native portrait mode on a Google Meet call.
Are you saying that the Google Meet and Discord apps allowed you to use the Portrait Mode effect with the True Depth camera system? Or did these apps have their own effect for this? My understanding is that it hasn’t been available.
It is available and it uses the system API - it's not a custom feature I'm using in those apps.
When an app is using the front-facing camera, just open control center and choose Video, and enable Portrait.
Interesting — thanks for the tip. I wonder why Apple didn’t make this available in their camera app for video, and why they’re just now adding it to FaceTime video calls.
If it delivers a cinema-like Bokeh effect in video, this would make sense. And if it does, I think it would have a big impact on filmmaking.
This thread is in the iOS 15 forum, but it kinda speaks to what is driving me nuts. Simple question, is Facetime Portrait mode ONLY available in iOS 15? I have a MI Pro iPad running 14.8, have read scads of stuff but NONE of it seems to bear any resemblance to what I am seeing. I can NOT use it for Facetime and the Control Panel has no video function at all. I THOUGHT I had seen marketing for a while now about this "feature" and never noticed it saying "only when iOS 15 ships."
Center Stage seems to work just fine. Zoom has a "blur" item for background, but I may have assumed that was using iOS software, I mean, Zoom supports Center stage as well (there is even a toggle button to turn it on and off).
Center Stage seems to work just fine. Zoom has a "blur" item for background, but I may have assumed that was using iOS software, I mean, Zoom supports Center stage as well (there is even a toggle button to turn it on and off).