Steve Jobs dreamed of this feature coming to the iPhone and finally, with iOS 17, it is now available.
We now have iOS 17 available to download on our iPhone and Apple’s new operating system fulfills an old dream of Steve Jobs. One of the latest functions of the system has been announced in the presentation of the iPhone iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, although it is not an exclusive function of these models.
This new feature allows change the focus point of a photo in Portrait Mode, so that we can quickly easily choose whether we want the background or what is in the foreground to blur. This function is compatible with iPhone 13 onwards and it can help us get much more artistic and interesting photos.
Now you can switch focus between subjects with a single touch, even after taking the photo. It’s the new hocus pocus.
But what not many know is that this idea was a dream for Steve Jobs, who more than a decade ago was already thinking about how to include it in the iPhone in water or another way. He Portrait mode did not come to the iPhone until the iPhone 7 Plusreleased 5 years after Jobs’ disappearance.
A feature that drove Steve Jobs crazy
This new iOS 17 feature detects a person, cat, or dog in the shot, and when taking the photo it automatically saves the depth data without using Portrait mode. This allows adjust depth effect or edit the focus of the subject after taking the photo.
And this is something that more than a decade ago it showed the curious Lytro camera for the first timea camera that Steve Jobs greatly appreciated. Lytro It was a pocket-sized camera with an elongated shape that was capable of taking photos that could be edited later to change the focus point.
Own Steve Jobs met with the founder of Lytro, Ren Ng, and received a demonstration of the curious camera before its launch. So, without a doubt, he dreamed of the iPhone being able to do something similar in the future.
The company’s CEO, Ren Ng, a brilliant computer scientist with a PhD from Stanford, immediately called Jobs, who picked up the phone and quickly said, “If you’re free this afternoon, maybe we could get together.” Ng, who is thirty-two, rushed to Palo Alto, showed Jobs a demo of Lytro’s technology, discussed cameras and product design with him, and, at Jobs’ request, agreed to send him an email describing three things you would like Lytro to do with Apple. According to the book Inside Apple by Adam Lashinsky.
Therefore, Apple has just fulfilled an old dream of Steve Jobs with the launch of iOS 17. Now this feature is compatible with the last three generations of iPhone and you can now use it if you have iOS 17.