

Fire up the camera after a break, and Night Mode will once again default to on when low light is detected. Only then can you turn off Night Mode for that shot or shooting session. If the iPhone detects that Night Mode should be used, the camera automatically enables it. The second shot is much better for referencing what was in the scene later, but it’s a crummy photograph.Īpple has always allowed you to disable Night Mode for low-light shots, but the process isn’t fast. You’re typical intense iPhone shot of some nightlife downtown. The Night Mode shot in the last example succeeds in revealing more of the scene, but keeping the light exposure under control for one to ten seconds with the iPhone handheld is a challenge. Night Mode isn’t always the right mode, of course, and the iPhone excels at taking dark shots accented with light. You can flood the sensor with light though aim the camera toward a street light and the whole shot will come off poorly. There needs to be some amount of light for Night Mode to work. You can’t just aim your camera into the abyss and capture something that you can’t see. I mentioned this challenge in my initial review of the iPhone 11 camera: Except, some shots aren’t so post-worthy with Night Mode applied to the camera… Extremely low light shots that would otherwise be lost to the limits of small camera sensors instantly became shareable. Apple introduced a major photography upgrade to iOS in 2019 with Night Mode on the iPhone 11.
