Hello, I am trying to submit my app to the app store and I want to make sure that my app is only installed by iPhones with a true depth camera. I have tried including the "iPhone / iPad Minimum Performance A12" in the the minimum required devices capabilities tab in info.plist but it seems to not work. I can still open my app with a phone that does not have the true depth camera. Is there a way of setting the minimum requirement to have the true depth camera through the info.plist or can I also hard code it in my app?. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

On iOS 18 public beta, user issues with photo quality being degraded when taken in the camera app and getting error message of failing to produce high resolution image.

Hey, I’m building a camera app where I am applying real time effects to the view finder. One of those effects is a variable blur, so to improve performance I am scaling down the input image using CIFilter.lanczosScaleTransform(). This works fine and runs at 30FPS, but when running the metal profiler I can see that the scaling transforms use a lot of GPU time, almost as much as the variable blur. Is there a more efficient way to do this? The simplified chain is like this: Scale down viewFinder CVPixelBuffer (CIFilter.lanczosScaleTransform) Scale up depthMap CVPixelBuffer to match viewFinder size (CIFilter.lanczosScaleTransform) Create CIImages from both CVPixelBuffers Apply VariableDepthBlur (CIFilter.maskedVariableBlur) Scale up final image to metal view size (CIFilter.lanczosScaleTransform) Render CIImage to a MTKView using CIRenderDestination From some research, I wonder if scaling the CVPixelBuffer using the accelerate framework would be faster? Also, Instead of scaling the final image, perhaps I could offload this to the metal view? Any pointers greatly appreciated!

I have an application that enables recording video from multiple iPhones through an iPad. It uses Multipeer Connectivity for all the device communication. When the user presses record on the iPad, it sends a command to each device in parallel and they start capturing video. But since network latency varies, I cannot guarantee that the recording start and stop times are consistent among all the iPhones. I need the frames to be exactly in sync. I tried using the system clock on each device for synchronizing the videos. If all the device system clocks were in sync within 3ms (30 frames per second), then it should be okay. But I tested and the clocks vary quite a bit, multiple seconds. So that won't work. I ultimately solved the problem by having a countdown timer on the iPad. The user puts the iPad in view of each phone with the countdown. Then later I use a python script to cut all the videos when the countdown timer goes to 0. But that's more work for the end user and requires manual work on our end. With a little ML text recognition, this could get better. Some people have suggested using a time server and syncing the clocks that way. I still haven't tried this out, and I'm not sure if it's even possible to run a NTP server on an iPad, and whether the NTP resolution will be below 3ms. I tried out Final Cut Camera and it has solved the synchronization problem. Each frame is in sync. The phones don't start and stop at exactly the same time, and they account for this by adding black frames to the front and/or back of videos to account for differences. I've searched online and other people have the same problem. I'd love to know how Apple was able to solve the synchronization issue when recording video from multiple iPhones from an iPad over what I assume is Multipeer Connectivity.

Hi , For our application's usecase, we need to remove autofocus completely. we dont need autofocus at all. is there anyway to remove or disable autofocus completely in the iOS applications?

Upon taking a photo using the rear camera of my iPhone 14 Pro Max, I observed severe picture distortion. This issue severely undermines the functionality and reliability of the iPhone camera, raising serious concerns about its usability and trustworthiness.

Hi, I would like to ask your advice with our IOS app, which has a problem with the Iphone 14 pro & Iphone 15 pro model camera focusing on close objects. The game is made with Unity and the idea is that kids can scan random QR - and barcodes to catch monsters. With Iphone the no pro models focus and read the barcodes well, but new models with three back camera systems our app does not focus on close, that makes the barcode reading hard. Somehow it seems that the Iphone pro model is not changing the camera lens to close focusing one in a third party app like it does when you use the camera itself. Do you have any advice on how to solve the focusing problem? I appreciate your help!

Post Content: Hi everyone, I’m encountering an issue with how iPhone displays contact information from a vCard QR code in the contact preview. When I scan the QR code with my iPhone camera, the contact preview shows the email address between the name and the contact image, instead of displaying the organization name. Here’s the structure of the vCard I’m using: BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 FN:Ahmad Rana N:Rana;Ahmad;;; ORG:Company 3 TEL;TYPE=voice,msg:+1234567890 EMAIL:a(at the rate)gmail.com URL:https://example.com IMPP:facebook:fb END:VCARD What I Expect: When I scan it with camera and in the contact preview before creating the camera I want organization name between name and image of the preview but I get email instead of ogrganization name. If only organisation is passed then it displays correctly but when I pass email it displayed email in between. Steps I’ve Taken: Verified the vCard structure to ensure it follows the standard format. Reordered the fields in the vCard to prioritize the organization name and job title. Tested with a simplified vCard containing only the name, organization, and email. Despite these efforts, the email address continues to be displayed in the contact preview between the name and the contact image, while the organization name is not shown as expected. Question: How can I ensure that the organization name is displayed correctly in the contact preview on iPhone when scanning a QR code? Are there specific rules or best practices for field prioritization in vCards that I might be missing? I would appreciate any insights or suggestions on how to resolve this issue. Thank you!

Hey, I'm building a portrait mode into my camera app but I'm having trouble with matching the quality of Apples native camera implementation. I'm streaming the depth data and applying a CIMaskedVariableBlur to the video stream which works quite well but the definition of the object in focus looks quite bad in some scenarios. See comparison below with Apples UI + depth data. What I don't quite understand is how Apple is able to do such a good cutout around my hand assuming it has similar depth data to what I am receiving. You can see in the depth image that my hand is essentially the same colour as parts of background, and this shows in the blur preview - but Apple gets around this. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

After upgrading to iOS18 dev beta 1/2 , camera keeps opening automatically by itself. Consuming more battery.

I have an app that uses a MultiCamCaptureSession, the devices of which are builtInUltraWideCamera and builtInLiDARDepthCamera cameras. Occasionally when outside I get some frame drops due to discontinuity that end in the media services being reset: [06-24 11:27:13][CameraSession] Capture session runtime error: related decl 'e' for AVError(_nsError: Error Domain=AVFoundationErrorDomain Code=-11819 "Cannot Complete Action" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Cannot Complete Action, NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Try again later.}) This runtime error notification is always superseded by 4-5 frame drops : [06-24 11:27:10][CaptureSession] Dropped frame because Discontinuity Logging the system temperature shows [06-24 11:27:10][CaptureSession] Temperature is 'Fair' I have some inclination that the frame discontinuity is being caused by the whileBalanceMode of the capture session, perhaps the algorithm requires 5 recent frames to work. I had a similar problem with the lidar depth camera where with filtering enabled exactly 5 frame drops would make the media services reset. When the whiteBalanceMode is locked I do slightly better with 10 frame drops before the mediaServices are reset. Is there any logging utility to determine the actual reason? All of these sampleBuffers come with no info attachment only the not so useful "Dropped frame because Discontinuity." Any ideas for solving this would be helpful as well. Maybe tuning the camera to work better with quickly varying lighting conditions?

After upgrading to ios 18, my camera app is opening automatically without pressing any thing on phon.

I just follow the video and add the codes, but when I switch to spatial video capturing, the videoPreviewLayer shows black. <<<< FigCaptureSessionRemote >>>> Fig assert: "! storage->connectionDied" at bail (FigCaptureSessionRemote.m:405) - (err=0) <<<< FigCaptureSessionRemote >>>> captureSessionRemote_getObjectID signalled err=-16405 (kFigCaptureSessionError_ServerConnectionDied) (Server connection was lost) at FigCaptureSessionRemote.m:405 <<<< FigCaptureSessionRemote >>>> Fig assert: "err == 0 " at bail (FigCaptureSessionRemote.m:421) - (err=-16405) <<<< FigCaptureSessionRemote >>>> Fig assert: "msg" at bail (FigCaptureSessionRemote.m:744) - (err=0) Did I miss something?

We are developing apps for visionOS and need the following capabilities for a consumer app: access to the main camera, to let users shoot photos and videos reading QR codes, to trigger the download of additional content So I was really happy when I noticed that visionOS 2.0 has these features. However, I was shocked when I also realized that these capabilities are restricted to enterprise customers only: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10139/ I think that Apple is shooting itself into the foot with these restrictions. I can understand that privacy is important, but these limitations restrict potential use cases for this platform drastically, even in consumer space. IMHO Apple should decide if they want to target consumers in the first place, or if they want to go the Hololens / MagicLeap route and mainly satisfy enterprise customers and their respective devs. With the current setup, Apple is risking to push devs away to other platforms where they have more freedom to create great apps.

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After the session video, "Build a great Lock Screen camera capture experience", was unclear about the UI. So do developers need to provide a whole new UI in the extension? The main UI cannot be repurposed?

Hey! I'm working on a camera app and I've noticed that the .builtInTripleCamera doesn't behave anything like the native app. Tested on iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPhone 12 Pro Max. The documentation states the following, but that seems quite different from what is happening in the app: Automatic switching from one camera to another occurs when the zoom factor, light level, and focus position allow. So, does it automatically switch like the native camera, or do I need to do something? Custom Camera vs Native Camera Custom Camera Native Camera The code was adapted from the Apple's project AVCamFilter. Just download the AVCamFilter and update videoDeviceDiscoverySession: private let videoDeviceDiscoverySession = AVCaptureDevice.DiscoverySession( deviceTypes: [.builtInTripleCamera], mediaType: .video, position: .unspecified )

I am trying to use the AVCamFilter Apple sample project discussed in this WWDC session to get depth data using the dual camera. The project has built-in features to get depth data from the dual camera. When the sample project was written builtInDualWideCamera didn't exist yet, and the project only tries to get builtInDualCamera and builtInWideAngleCamera. When I run the project on my iPad Pro it doesn't show any of the depth-related UI because the device doesn't have a builtInDualCamera device. So I added builtInDualWideCamera in to the videoDeviceDiscoverySession, and it seems to get that device properly, but isDepthDataDeliverySupported is returning false still. Is there some reason why isDepthDataDeliverySupported is false even though I seem to be using a dual camera device? I know the device has a builtInLiDARDepthCamera but I wanted to try out the dual camera depth data to see how it performs for shorter distances. I wouldn't have expected the dual camera depth data delivery to be made unavailable on the device just because the LiDAR sensor is already available. Using iPadOS 17.5.1, iPad Pro 11-inch 4th generation. The depth feature of this sample app works fine on an iPhone 15 I tested. Also tried on an iPhone 15 Pro and it worked even though that device also has a LiDAR sensor, so the issue is presumably not related to the fact that the iPad Pro has a LiDAR sensor.

I'm using CIDepthBlurEffect to create a portrait mode effect on a rendered image. The effect is working as expected however I want to create the "bokeh ball" effect which is seen in the photos app. I see that the filter has a "inputShape" input of type NSString, however the documents do not specify what value this should be. Any pointers are help is greatly apprecaited.

I made CameraExtension and installed by OSSystemExtensionRequest. I got success callback. I did uninstall old version of my CameraExtension and install new version of my CameraExtension. "systemextensionsctl list" command shows "[activated enabled]" on my new version. But no daemon process with my CameraExtension is not running. I need to reboot OS to start the daemon process. This issue is new at macOS Sonoma 14.5. I did not see this issue on 14.4.x