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    Apple limits new camera texture and grain controls after compatibility wording change

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    iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max feature the most advanced camera Apple has ever made and deliver massive leaps in battery life and performance.

    Apple has narrowed the availability of new Texture and Grain controls for Photographic Styles, restricting the tools to the latest iPhone 18 Pro models and the upcoming iPhone Duo after earlier wording suggested broader support.

    MacRumors‘ Tim Hardwick reported that Apple’s original iPhone 18 Pro launch materials said the controls would be “available in iOS 27 on iPhone models that support the latest generation of Photographic Styles.” That language appeared in copies of the launch-day press release. Apple’s iOS 27 user guide also listed devices supporting the latest Photographic Styles as the iPhone 16 series, iPhone 17 series, iPhone Air, and iPhone 18 Pro models.

    Apple has since revised the footnote on its Newsroom announcement. It now says Texture and Grain controls are available only for photos captured on iPhone 18 Pro models and with the Ultra Wide, Main, and Center Stage cameras on the iPhone Duo. The company also states in the iOS 27 user guide that changing a photo’s texture can be done “on iPhone 18 Pro models.”

    It is unclear whether Apple originally planned to bring the feature to older compatible devices and later changed course, or whether the first wording was published in error. Apple has not commented on the revision.

    Photographic Styles are tone presets that adjust color and warmth while aiming to preserve skin tones. Texture and Grain add extra creative control on top of those styles, but that extra layer is now framed as a current-generation camera capability rather than a software feature for every phone that already supports the latest Photographic Styles.

    The change has drawn criticism from users who argue there is no obvious technical reason to withhold a software camera control from recent iPhones that already run iOS 27 and support the newest Photographic Styles. Apple has a long history of reserving some camera processing features for the newest hardware, even when older models remain software-supported.
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    Source link: https://macdailynews.com/2026/09/23/apple-limits-new-camera-texture-and-grain-controls-after-compatibility-wording-change/

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    How to turn off Time Sensitive notifications on iPhone and Mac

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    In this quick tutorial, we show you why and how to stop apps from sending you Time Sensitive notifications on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

    Time Sensitive notification on iOS Lock Screen

    Time Sensitive notifications are those important app alerts designed to bypass Focus and Notification Summary modes (if active) and show up as a priority on your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen.

    These notifications usually come from apps that need to alert you about deadline-driven tasks, like reminders, calendar events, and so forth.

    As a result, even if you have a Focus mode like Do Not Disturb active, these Time Sensitive notifications will bypass it to wake up the Lock Screen and play a sound (unless silent mode is activated).

    Once on the Lock Screen, they behave as sticky alerts and force other app notifications that arrived after them to appear under them.

    New notifications appearing behind Time Sensitive notification on iPhone Lock Screen

    While this is their intended purpose, I have an issue: I use the Apple Reminders app a lot, and most of the time when it alerts me, I finish the task in real life but don’t always mark it as complete. This causes time-sensitive Reminders notifications to keep showing on my iPhone Lock Screen, and forces new app notifications to stay hidden behind them. Because of this, I’ve chosen to turn off Time Sensitive notifications for Reminders and other such apps.

    However, if you use a certain Focus mode at all or most of the time, I recommend using caution before disabling Time Sensitive notifications for most apps.

    Extra info: There is an even higher level of notification type called Critical Alerts. Unlike Time Sensitive notifications, Critical Alerts even bypass and play sound when silent mode is active. Only a few apps, like Health and Home, send critical alerts, so you can be alerted to things like taking your medication on time or a smoke alarm going off.

    Turn off Time Sensitive Notifications for an app

    There is no master switch to turn them all off at once. So you’ll have to do it on a per-app basis, and there are two ways to go about it.

    From Settings

    1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad, or System Settings on Mac.
    2. Tap Notifications.
    3. Select the app.
    4. Turn off the switch for Time Sensitive Notifications.

    Time Sensitive Notifications turned off for an app on iPhone

    If you don’t see an option for Time Sensitive Notifications, that means this app isn’t allowed to send such alerts.

    From the same screen, you can also choose to turn off Critical Alerts (if shown).

    From the Lock Screen

    Follow these steps if you already have a Time Sensitive notification stacked on your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen.

    1. Swipe left slightly on the Time Sensitive notification and tap Options.
    2. Tap Turn Off Time Sensitive.
    Turning off Time Sensitive Notification for an app from iPhone Lock Screen

    Note that you can’t do this from Mac’s Notification Center; Control-clicking on a Time Sensitive notification in macOS doesn’t show an option to turn it off.

    Control Clicking on Time Sensitive notification on Mac

    But you can select Notification Settings to go to that app’s notification manager in System Settings and turn it off there.

    Turning off Time Sensitive notifications for a Mac app

    If you ever change your mind, repeat the steps above and turn the switch back on.

    Remember, if you keep Focus enabled at all times, you can also go to its settings and add certain apps and people as exceptions, so their notifications will always come through to you.

    Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/09/22/turn-off-time-sensitive-notifications-ios-mac/