{"id":1498,"date":"2025-10-22T02:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-iphone-17s-selfie-camera-is-to-blame-for-delayed-project-indigo-support\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:03:37","slug":"the-iphone-17s-selfie-camera-is-to-blame-for-delayed-project-indigo-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-iphone-17s-selfie-camera-is-to-blame-for-delayed-project-indigo-support\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone 17\u2019s selfie camera is to blame for delayed Project Indigo support"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tiPhone 17 Pro owners are still waiting for Project Indigo support. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic \/ The Verge\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n

The iPhone 17 series launched just over a month ago, but Adobe\u2019s camera app Project Indigo<\/a> still doesn\u2019t support the latest iPhones \u2014 you can run it on an iPhone 12 Pro if you have one handy, but I can\u2019t use it on the iPhone 17 Pro on my desk. The holdup seems to be due in part to trouble with the phone\u2019s new selfie camera, according to a post on Adobe\u2019s forum<\/a> (spotted by a keen-eyed redditor<\/a>). And although it seems the wait might be over soon, support for the selfie camera might not be available right away.<\/p>\n

Product manager Boris Ajdin has been relaying information about Project Indigo\u2019s updates to eager fans on Adobe\u2019s community forums, and he posted an update on October 16th with more information about the delayed iPhone 17 support. \u201cWe are working hard on it, and we have run into some issues, especially with the front camera. Some of them we flagged to Apple, who have made a fix and will ship it with iOS 26.1. Sadly, that means we need to consider disabling the front camera in Indigo until that version of iOS is shipped,\u201d his post reads. <\/p>\n

The team hoped to release that update \u201cin a couple of days,\u201d though it\u2019s clear now that more time was needed. Responding to another comment<\/a> in the thread today, Ajdin says he is \u201choping that we can release an update this week.\u201d I reached out to Adobe to ask for more details about the challenges the selfie camera has posed; Adobe spokesperson Erin Di Leva referred me to the aforementioned forum posts.<\/p>\n

The iPhone 17 series included the first major update to the selfie camera<\/a> since switching to a 12-megapixel sensor<\/a> in the iPhone 11. The 17\u2019s 18-megapixel front camera sensor is square, allowing it to capture both portrait and landscape orientation images without rotating the whole phone (or losing a lot of resolution to cropping). It also uses Center Stage controls to automatically follow subjects around the frame and change orientation when more people join the photo. It\u2019s a useful update to a well-used camera, though not everyone is a fan of the image quality<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Project Indigo gained a faithful following when it debuted this summer, offering more natural processing compared to the typical smartphone camera \u201clook\u201d most native camera apps produce. It\u2019s the product of a team led by Marc Levoy, who\u2019s known for his work on the Google Pixel camera and its pioneering use of computational photography. Indigo is an \u201cexperimental\u201d app and is so far only available on iOS; Android owners are still waiting for support, which Levoy told me earlier this year<\/a> is \u201cdefinitely on the \u2018want\u2019 list,\u201d though is likewise quite challenging. I have a feeling iPhone 17 owners are going to get their Indigo support before Android does.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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