Apple’s Computational Photography on iPhone is On Point as Recent ‘Glitch’ Turns Out to be a Failed Panoramic Shot

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The camera on the iPhone has come a long way since its launch, and it continues to improve every year. Apple upgrades the hardware annually and appoints dedicated developers to enhance its computational efforts in the field. You might have recently encountered a photo on social media that aims to show three instances of a scene in a single image. It was reported that a 'glitch' in the iPhone's computational photography is why the camera failed to take a standard shot. As it turns out, Tessa Coates uploaded a failed panoramic shot that captured different frames in a single photo.

Instagram user Tessa Coates took her picture wearing a wedding dress in front of two mirrors. The image shows that the camera has captured three different hand gestures. The photo shows Coates' hands on the sides and across her stomach, while in reality, one of her hands is on her side and the other one folded. Coates suggested it was a "glitch in the matrix," but in reality, it was a failed panoramic shot. Apple's computational photography on the iPhone was blamed to be the issue, calling it a rare moment. However, the truth is far from exciting.

YouTube channel iPhonedo examined the photo's metadata and shared his findings on Threads. He discovered the picture was a panoramic shot instead of a standard one. Coates mentioned in her caption that it was a "real photo, and not photoshopped, not a pano, not a Live Photo." Technically, it was not a pano shot as it does not look like one. However, Coates did take the photo using the panoramic mode on the iPhone 12. Check out what Faruk from iPhonedo had to say:

To a normal eye, this may look quite normal, but to me this resolution does not look ok because that’s not the resolution iPhone 12 takes a photo