Bayer RAW, no Deep Fusion
Every shot can keep the sensor’s own data as a DNG attached to the picture in Photos: one frame, as the sensor saw it.
Color Science Camera
What you see is what you get
Introducing Color Science Camera
A camera that saves exactly what you saw — and keeps the negative for later.
Native SwiftUI and Metal, the same colour engine as Color Science Lab on the Mac. Six languages. No subscriptions.
Film looks, any time
Dozens of looks inspired by Kodak, Fuji, Agfa, Ilford, Polaroid and cinema stocks — the same looks as on the Mac.
Log video on every iPhone
Apple Log, or Apple Log 2 where the phone records it — and Log on iPhones that have no Apple Log at all.
Phone cameras merge, denoise and sharpen before you ever see the picture. Color Science Camera keeps the single frame the sensor saw, saves the picture exactly as it looked on screen, and leaves the look open — change it next week, copy it to a whole gallery, or develop the RAW on the Mac.
What’s inside
Shoot plain. Decide later.
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What you see is what you get
The live view is the picture: the saved file is the very frame that was on screen, every shot.
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Bayer RAW, no Deep Fusion
Speed-priority capture skips Deep Fusion and Smart HDR; the DNG is the sensor’s data before demosaicing.
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Film looks
Built-in looks by family, your favourites, and your own — applied in the Gallery and changeable any time.
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A gallery that remembers
Every shot keeps its look, adjustments and framing. Copy settings, make variants, organise galleries.
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Real adjustments
Exposure, highlights and shadows, white balance on the RAW, colour balance, colour editor, curves, split toning, grain, halation.
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Log video everywhere
Clips are recorded in Log on every iPhone and graded with your look when you play or export them.
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Lenses like Apple’s
0.5×, 1×, 2×, 4× and 8× where the phone has them; 2× and 8× are centre cuts that leave the RAW complete.
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Lock Screen and Action button
A control for the Lock Screen, Control Center and the Action button opens the camera in one press.
Shoot plain.
Keep the negative.
A viewfinder that tells the truth
Tap to focus, drag to expose
Up to three stops either way, as in Apple’s camera; double-tap cycles the aspect.
RAW pill
Yellow when a Bayer DNG is saved with every shot; one tap switches it.
Torch-style flash
The LED lights the scene for the shot, so faces are not burnt by a strobe frame.
Log, on every iPhone
Apple Log and Apple Log 2
The phone’s own Log where it has it; Apple Log 2 keeps a wider range of colours.
Log without Apple Log
iPhones without Apple Log, and the front camera, record Log clips too — graded with the same looks.
Graded on export
Clips stay Log in Photos; the Gallery plays them with your look and exports 10-bit HEVC.
Choose the look afterwards
By family
Base, Kodak-, Fuji-inspired, Agfa, Ilford, Polaroid, Cinema, Creative, Signature and My Looks.
Your own looks
Save the look plus your adjustments under a name; rename or delete with a swipe.
Looks from the Mac
Import .look files from Color Science Lab; they render with the same pipeline.
Every shot stays editable
Galleries
Make galleries, move shots between them, export a whole gallery into a Photos album.
Copy, paste, variants
Copy a shot’s look and adjustments to one or many shots; variants sit next to the original.
Add from Photos
Pictures this camera saved come back with their RAW; others open as they are.
Real adjustments
Five sections
Basic, Light, Colour, Effects and Detail, all on one slider with the same reset rules.
Crop and rotate
Reframe any time — the DNG is always the full sensor frame.
Before / after
Hold the button to see the shot without its look.
In detail
Everything the camera does.
Camera
- Full, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9 and 1:1 aspects
- Tap to focus, drag to set exposure ±3 stops
- Torch-style flash
- Front camera
- Remembers aspect, lens and mode
- Works on both screens of a foldable
Lenses
- 0.5× ultra-wide
- 1× main camera
- 2× centre of the 48 MP sensor
- 4× telephoto where available
- 8× centre of the telephoto sensor
- No system zoom — the RAW stays complete
Photos & RAW
- The saved picture is the frame on screen
- Bayer DNG attached in Photos
- No Deep Fusion, no Smart HDR
- HEIC in Display P3
- Export at 2× (48 MP from a 12 MP RAW)
- Location in the file, only if you allow it
Video
- Apple Log on phones that record it
- Apple Log 2 where available
- Log on iPhones without Apple Log
- Log from the front camera
- Look applied on playback and export
- Graded export as 10-bit HEVC
Looks & editing
- Built-in film looks by family
- Favourites and your own looks
- Import .look files from the Mac
- Basic, Light, Colour, Effects, Detail
- Curves, colour balance, colour editor
- Split toning, B & W mix, grain, halation
Gallery & sharing
- Galleries with counts
- Copy / paste settings to many shots
- Variants
- Share picture, RAW, or both
- Export a gallery to a Photos album
- Rebuild tiles from stored settings
Looks
The same looks as on the Mac.
Choose one for every new photo or clip in Settings, or give any shot another look afterwards. Your own looks follow you to every iPhone on your iCloud account.
Kodak-inspired
Portra 160Portra 400Portra 800EktarGoldUltraMaxColorPlusEktachromeKodachromeTri-XT-Max 100T-Max P3200
Fuji-inspired
Pro 400HPro 160NSSuperia 200Superia X-TRA 400C200Natura 1600VelviaProviaAstiaAcros
Agfa
VistaUltraPrecisa CTPrecisa cross-processedAPXScala
Ilford
HP5FP4Pan FDelta 3200SFXXP2
Polaroid
600SX-70667Expired
Cinema
Vision3 250D printVision3 500T printEternaCineStill 800TCineStill 50DBleach bypass
Creative
InfraredPurpleMist
Hand-built approximations inspired by the commonly described character of these film stocks. They are not calibrated emulations — no spectral or measured film data is used — and are not affiliated with the manufacturers.
Specifications
Technical details.
- Requires
- iOS 26 or later · iPhone and iPad
- Photo
- HEIC in Display P3, the frame shown in the live view; optional 2× export
- RAW
- Single-frame Bayer DNG, 12 MP, full sensor frame, attached to the picture in Photos
- Video
- Log on every iPhone: Apple Log, Apple Log 2 where available; AAC audio
- Graded video export
- 10-bit HEVC, Rec. 709, sound copied as recorded
- Lenses
- 0.5×, 1×, 2×, 4×, 8× depending on the iPhone
- Aspects
- Full, 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, 1:1
- Look sync
- Private iCloud, sealed with a key in your iCloud Keychain
- Languages
- English, Türkçe, Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano
- Privacy
- No data collected. Read more →
FAQ
Common questions.
Why does my shot have two files in Photos?
It is one picture with a RAW attached. Photos shows a RAW badge; the DNG is the Bayer data, the picture is the look rendered onto the shot.
Why is the RAW 12 megapixels on a 48 megapixel camera?
Apple provides Bayer RAW binned to 12 MP; 48 MP is only available as ProRAW, which carries Apple’s processing. Export at 2× brings the saved picture back to 48 MP by resampling.
My iPhone has no Apple Log. Can I still shoot Log?
Yes. Every iPhone records Log clips in the app, and they take the same looks when you play or export them in the Gallery.
Why do my videos look flat in Photos?
Clips are saved in Log as they come off the camera. Your look is applied when you watch or export them in the Gallery.
Does a look change the DNG?
Never. The DNG is the sensor’s data. Looks, adjustments and crops apply to the rendered picture only.
Can I shoot without RAW?
Yes: tap the RAW pill, or the switch in Settings. The picture is still the camera’s frame without Deep Fusion, and the Gallery keeps it editable.
How do I bring a Mac look to the phone?
Export it as a .look file from Color Science Lab, then Import from the Gallery’s look sheet or open the file from Files.
Where are my looks stored?
On the phone, and in your private iCloud storage when sync is on, sealed with a key from your iCloud Keychain. They are never shared beyond your own devices.
Shoot plain. Decide later.
On its own on iPhone and iPad, or paired with Color Science Lab on the Mac.
Requires iOS 26 or later · iPhone and iPad