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iPhone XS Camera Review: Zanzibar

September 18, 2025 - Powered by the A12 Bionic chip, in the picture above the iPhone XS is able to capture the dark shadows of the rock while maintaining strong detail in the sunlit clouds. I’ve never worked with a camera that can balance light like this—not even close.

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iPhone XS: Why It's A Whole New Camera: Debunking the Beautygate myth and showing how the XS camera differs from previous iPhones

Hey folks, I wrote this. I noticed this subreddit had a lot of concerns about the skin smoothing people were seeing on the iPhone. On top of that, users of our third-party camera app were seeing strange things when they shot in RAW. This led us to do a deep dive on exactly what's happening in the new iPhone XS camera. TL;DR: iPhone XS is unique in that it's the first iPhone to rely heavily on computational photography. The result is that it tends to shoot more photos at faster shutter speeds and with higher ISO sensitivity, which lead to a bit more noise. This, coupled with the noise on iPhone XS sensors being a bit more noticeable, leads the the 'skin smoothing' effect when it applies noise reduction. In RAW photography, the camera still optimizes for this style of shooting, which gives noisier and worse exposures overall. With an adjusted version of our app, however, we were able to properly utilize the new sensor technology and get better shots than an iPhone X ever could. If you have any questions or remarks I'd love to talk a bit more — being a camera app guy there's a lot of stuff here that I love chatting about! More on reddit.com

r/iphone

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February 20, 2018

reminder that the iphone xs has a very capable camera

True. Too bad the battery isn't very good. More on reddit.com

r/iPhoneXS

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October 30, 2024

FOR iPHONE XS USERS: Are the telephoto lenses being used?

After testing this on my 11 Pro: My hypothesis is. The camera app determines which lens to you based on the distance/focus point of the subject. If the camera senses the object is close to the camera it will use the wide-angle with 2x digital zoom because the telephoto won’t be able to focus up that close. Try allowing the phone to focus on an object far away and quickly cover the lens. It will adjust after a second but you’ll notice the image is blocked. More on reddit.com

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January 30, 2021

iPhone XS Camera Dark Spots

This is repairable but it's usually not worth the time. These spots are caused by dust on top of the camera sensor in between the lens and main sensor on the camera.

one last ditch trick to get the dust out is with compressed air. Lightly try to blow air in between the camera and the sensor but it usually wont work and can come back so it's not really for customer repairs only if it was your own phone. This can also break the camera completely if done wrong.

The way to properly flix this would be to desolder the little wires that hold the lens assembly over the sensor in a clean room then blow away the dust and solder it back. it's time consuming and not really worth it.

The long and short of all this would be to replace the camera. It's easier :)

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