The iPhone 17 Square Selfie is a bigger deal than you think

The square camera sensor may seem to be one of these things that the obsessive will be appreciated only, but as part of A new camera faces 18 megapixels “Center Center” On the iPhone 17, it can have huge effects for Apple users. They will no longer need the heart of their phones to take a personal photo of the landscape, especially if they need to put a large group of people, as it is dealt with automatically through the lead center. It is “Why didn’t I think about it?” Other phone makers are likely to copy, simply because it is very practical. This square camera sensors can help make Apple a pioneer in a personal photo, again.

We have come a long way from when I presented the iPhone 4 and HTC EVO 4G the idea of ​​modern cameras facing the front in 2010. For previous mobile phones in Japan and Europe had low -quality personal cameras, and we can argue that the Game Boy camera was also advancing with the idea through it when it arrived in 1998. But in 2010, we had a strong gift in a relatively fast contact that users could have They accept it. (It still took it, it took two other Apple years for the iPhone 5 version capable of LTE, making FaceTime more useful.)

During the iPhone 17 launch event, Apple revealed that its customers took 500 billion personal photos last year, a huge character showing the normalization of this practice. Often, personal photos are made when they were considered a specialization for Instagram teenage girls, but these days it is not customary to see everyone from the elderly to a group of sports cold that gather around one phone such as the subject of worship. On a personal observation, it is really the only way to get decent pictures of your entire family, especially when you are two coherent children.

We take pictures to preserve memories, but selfie pictures feel distinctive for their intimate relationship. You don’t only pick up the place you were, but you also document yourself at the moment, along with the people around you. By facilitating personal photos, it is excluded to start taking more of them, in the end linking yourself to the Apple ecosystem. This leads to the need for the iPhone with more storage and possibly backup space more than iCloud below the line. You will also not jump to the Android phone if you have to turn your phone side to get a personal scenery, or if you lose access to all dear memories in your Apple’s photo library.

The square camera sensor keeps you loyal.

It will also change the way iPhone users take videos. Automatically, you keep the lead center at the FaceTime call center, so you don’t have to worry a lot about framing yourself. Although I have not seen this specific feature under implementation, it should also help reduce your phone conversion headache during the FaceTime call to match the recipient. (Or maybe I am tired of telling my father about the heart of their phones when their talks have huge black borders.)

This may be an extension, but I can see the medium’s front camera, making it more common to record video with the front and back cameras at the same time. While it’s new on iPhone as “double capture”, we have seen variables of it from Samsung and Nokia (remember #bothie?) Android devices, but they have never taken off. The direct broadcasting mode of the double camera of Tiktok was more successful, and there are also huge applications such as the MIXCAM built around double registration. With the dual picking on iPhone 17, the center of Stage should allow you to keep you in the middle of the movement with the front camera more focus on getting the best snapshot with the rear lenses.

Although I like to see Apple Cram more pixels in the 18 -megapixel theater camera, moving to a square sensor will be frankly more influential for all the above reasons. It is easy to throw a higher accuracy sensor, it is difficult to rethink mainly about how to improve something simple like taking a personal photo.