Camera app developer says there's no 'beauty filter' being applied on the iPhone XS, XS Max

Yesterday we learned that at least a handful of iPhone XS and XS Max users are unhappy with their new devices' front camera image quality, with some early adopters reporting over-excessive skin smoothening and beautification effects when taking self-portraits. Software developer Sebastiaan de With, the man behind the Halide camera app, has had a closer look at the new iPhone models' camera processing and says there isn't any beautification applied to the front camera images. Instead, he says, it...