The latest iPhones' tendency to aggressively smooth out skin in selfies is no more. Apple recently acknowledged that the phenomenon, dubbed "Beautygate" by some," was a bug and promised a fix. That fix just arrived in the new iOS 12.1 this week.
There has been much talk and debate in recent weeks about the iPhone XS and XR's "beauty filter," a default skin smoothing in selfies that sparked a controversy dubbed "beautygate." While many have explained the effect as the result of noise reduction, Apple has just admitted that it's indeed a camera bug.
Apple's new iPhone XS and XS Max are at the center of a new controversy some have dubbed 'Beautygate.' The front-facing camera is said to be automatically smoothing skin in selfies, and there's no way to turn this "beauty filter" off.