My iPhone XS Max Is Doing Something Weird... By Unbox Therapy

So I noticed something weird with the iPhone 10s max that I've been using that on here, Jack is that my actual skin tone couldn't feel about that. Now, if you're following me on social media, which you should be for these findings, then you know that recently, I posted a photo, a selfie that I shot on the iPhone 10s max I felt somehow the device was putting me in some kind of automatic beauty mode. Almost some kind of smooth skin effect was happening, and I was like am I, crazy, am I the only one seeing this, so I did a quick search and I found a few different threads on Reddit, where other people were having similar findings in, like men, I look like a porcelain doll or a plastic figure when I take a selfie on the iPhone, 10s or 10s max, so at first I was like. Let me get to the bottom of this. This is probably some kind of processing thing that I can turn off. I can just dive into the menus like on other phones that have Beauty modes right like on Samsung or wall, and so maybe I can just toggle that down to zero.

But of course, there's no mention of beauty mode, because Apple never admitted to doing any kind of beauty mode. Instead, the only processing they talked about was this smart HDR, so I went into the settings. I found the smart, HDR, toggle, and I turn that off to see if it made much of a difference, and it turns out it didn't so, whatever type of processing is happening, that whatever Apple is doing on these new phones is kind of outside the realm or extra to the smart, HDR functionality and analysis of the photo that's about to be taken. So anyhow, let's talk about the phones. I have in front of me here.

The far left here, I have the iPhone 10 regular previous generation, iPhone 10 selfie just shot in this environment as I sit here right now. Next, to that is the 10s max that I've been using and evaluating this one here is in the standard, 10s and then on the far side here, I have an iPhone 6, because why not? Let's see what Apple and iPhone selfies look like all the way, so I'm assuming your, seeing what I'm seeing here on the 10s Max and the 10s? It's like this weird smooth effect going on this photo here is with the smart HDR turned on. So for me, this is the most aggressive smoothing of the bunch in the cheek area. Here, just the complexion in general is so uniform. It's just like this kind of makeup.

It looks like makeup. Furthermore, it looks like a beauty mode to be honest in my interpretation now to the left. There believe it or not. This is with smart HDR turned off, so I was hoping that that would fix the problem. It may tone it down a little and give you slightly more contrast, slightly more shadow, but its nowhere near what we were getting on the iPhone 10, even the iPhone 6 I actually have eyebrows, which I promise I have in real life.

So it looks like whatever processing is going on here with the facial recognition and this smart HDR and then whatever extras are there, because it's even happening with smart HDR turned off is resulting in this almost covert beauty mode. That's going on this secret beauty mode in what some people on Reddit are actually calling Beauty gate, but here's the thing I know where this conversation goes. You start to say to yourself: why would they need a beauty mode? Who really wants a beauty mode? We'll ask yourself white: do all those other manufacturers have beauty modes turns out it's a popular feature in certain markets. You know, maybe people want to be smoothed out, so you start to reverse engineer the decision and try to figure out who apples going after and why they would make such a drastic change in how their selfie camera is. Processing human beings.

Now the crazy part about this is there's no toggle. For me, it's like fine. If you want to look beautiful and you, and you want to have a beauty mode, so be it, you can turn it off, but if you're in the realm of editing and making yourself look a particular way sure toggle that slider up, but without having the slider, it's like it's like everyone has to accept this beauty look and then what people turn around and this just becomes the new norm. It's just like. Oh I, didn't I didn't do anything now, there's some other things happening in these images.

You know these. Look a little more washed out to me. Shirt, for example, is I mean it's really not this color, it's much darker when I hold this up. If I go to take a photo, it's doing its analysis of me right now. It's putting the makeup on my face.

I, don't know if jack can pick that up. I. Do not look like that. That's weird! Let me snap this photo I, look like I'm wearing foundation. It's very weird! It's so weird! My beer is not one! Color in this it kind of comes out, there's an analysis tape, but I, don't know this might not be strictly software.

This might not be something that can just be toggled off with the switch I hope. That's not the case. In fact, if I hold my hand in front of my face the whole color temperature of the image it changes and then, as it sees my face pop in then I get the rosy cheeks and the smooth complexion. So it feels like software I hope it's just software. We're going to have to wait and see so look.

Is this the biggest deal in the world? I, don't know it depends on how important this front-facing camera is to you. Do you, if you use it to capture your memories or post a billion selfies, then you probably want to know about this and, like people in the office have said, maybe some people actually prefer this image in the middle here on the new 10s and 10s max now that you can see these four separate images from the exact same environment, which one do you find to be the most pleasing or which one would you want to post of yourself? I want to know down in the comments either way, here's my plea to Apple like I: don't care! If you have this amazing neural processing, smart HDR, facial analysis, stuff going on. That's fine, that's great, but just make it an option. ? turn it off. ? turn it off completely when you buy the phone that's on by default.

So if I go back to the camera app, you see, there's no indication that an HDR photo a smart HDR photo is about to take place. The vast majority of people are just going to pop open. This device start snapping, selfies and just assume they're as beautiful as they look there. It is Beauty gate, the hidden beauty mode that you can't turn off. You should know that before you purchase one of these, if you're a big selfie taker- and you want to live your best realist life- I- don't know you might go for an iPhone instead, I'm just saying.

Source : Unbox Therapy