iPhone XR, XS, And XS Max Will Also Get Multi-Camera Recording

Apple unleashed into three new iPhones just a week ago and while the company has been trying its best to hype up the new trio of products, there’s a critical reason why you shouldn’t be upgrading this year.

You see, during the event the company set out an entire section to talk about multi-camera recording, touting the prowess of the new cameras on the next-generation iPhones. And while for a lot of people, this could be a good signal for an update, the thing is that the ability will also be coming to the older iPhones: iPhone XR, XS, and XS Max when iOS 13 finally comes out to the public in a few days.

Multi-Camera Recording

In a report, it is found that although the multi-camera recording is a pretty hardware intensive job, the ability actually does not come from any special type of hardware within the new iPhones. In fact, it will be introduced to all devices running iOS 13 via an API so the 2018 iPhone lineup can also do this (For the most part).

However, earlier phones like the iPhone X and below may not support simultaneous recording. The iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max can support streaming from two cameras at the same time and with a different combination of front and back. That’s why for anyone with last year iPhones, you can also capture your own reaction videos if you want. Unfortunately, this isn’t a feature that the stock Camera app is able to support. You must try and find third-party camera apps on the App Store to get this to work. During the event, Apple demonstrated Filmic Pro as a camera app that supports simultaneous recording so that’s a pretty good place to start. The app will be available later this year.

Developers have the complete freedom to add the capability to their own camera apps. But Apple gave out a caveat saying that since the job is quite processing-intensive, adding more workloads like real-time filters and AR objects can cause the video stream to be degraded into a lower resolution instead of 4K.

Stream Number

Apple hasn’t made any sort of comments on how many streams the new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and 11 Pro Max can actually support at one time. But they might take advantage of the better hardware to support three streams as an incentive for people to start buying the new phone. Users might even be able to record from all four cameras on the Pro version if they can make the compromise on quality and jump down to record videos with HD resolution or less.