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Apple adds Captured by Me to iOS 27 Photos, expands RAW support, clarifies Texture and Grain limits

Apple adds a Captured by Me album in iOS 27 Photos, expands RAW support to 11 cameras, and limits Texture and Grain controls to photos captured on its newest iPhones.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-23 05:39

According to 9to5Mac, “Captured by Me” is a new Photos collection in iOS 27 that includes only photos and videos shot with the Camera app. It excludes screenshots, images shared by friends, and other saved media. The same feature is available as a filter in the main Photos library. The addition fills a gap in Apple Photos, whose older Camera Roll included both captured and saved images, while the current Recents album also contains a broader mix of content. iOS 27 also brings improvements to slideshows and shared albums.

Apple also updated its official list of digital camera RAW formats supported across its platforms, 9to5Mac reported. The update adds 11 models and brings the total to 562 cameras. The new additions are FUJIFILM FinePix F600EXR, FUJIFILM FinePix HS20EXR, FUJIFILM XF1, OM SYSTEM PEN, Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FZ45, Phase One IQ150, Phase One IQ160, Phase One IQ260, Phase One IQ3 100MP Trichromatic, Phase One iXG 100MP, and Phase One iXH 150MP. System-level RAW support lets compatible apps work directly with RAW files and adjust elements such as exposure and color, unlike JPEG files, which bake much of that processing into the final image. Apple maintains separate support articles for current and past operating systems, including version 27 of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

The Verge reported that Apple clarified that Texture and Grain controls in Photographic Styles are exclusive to the latest iPhones’ cameras. A confusingly worded Apple press release earlier this month, issued alongside the iPhone 18 and 18 Pro, indicated the features would be “available” on older devices such as the iPhone 16 and iPhone Air that “support the latest generation of Photographic Styles.” Apple later updated recent press releases to state that the controls will only be available for “photos captured on iPhone 18 Pro models and the Ultra Wide, Main, and Center Stage cameras on iPhone Duo.” The original September 11 release, published the day before preorders opened for the latest iPhone and Apple Watch models, remains available in its original form on other websites with a footnote saying the new “texture and grain controls in Photographic Styles will be available on iOS 27 on iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 17, iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Duo.” A Reddit user corroborated the limited compatibility by adjusting texture and grain on an iPhone 16 Pro Max only while editing sample photos taken on an iPhone 18 Pro by photographer Austin Mann. A Verge reporter also had access to the controls when editing Mann’s samples on an iPhone 16 Pro running iOS 27, but not on photos the reporter captured personally. The Verge reached out to Apple for clarification on how the feature is supposed to work on older phones but did not immediately get a response.