Apple is beginning to embrace never-imagined changes to its ecosystem. The arrival of iOS 18 came hand in hand with complete and utter freedom to customize the home screen, from the colors of the icons to placing them wherever the user wants.

On the other hand, after years of waiting for the iPhone to natively have a manual camera mode, Apple has released Final Cut Camera. With this application, we are faced with the first application developed by Apple that allows us to shoot as we wish.

Final Cut Camera was born with two purposes: to provide support for a Final Cut-enabled iPad to be used as a multi-camera (recording on up to four Apple devices simultaneously), and to eventually Manual modes to iPhone.

Final Cut Camera’s interface is quite simple. When we open it, only the iPhone lenses, the recording hours we have according to free memory, and access to the magnifier appear. The magic comes when you click on the arrow in the lower right corner: it hides manual modes.

• White balance.
• Exposure control.
• Focus control.

Yep, beyond those three controls, Final Cut Camera (at least in its early version) doesn’t let you do much else. Options are far away Focus Summitfull ISO control and other elements of other applications that have been on the market for some time.

This situation inevitably forces me to ask myself the following question: Why a standalone app? and is not integrated into the camera app itself. There are only some callable manual controls that can be perfectly adapted to the Camera app. The same thing happens with multi-camera mode: it is launched from a small button located in the upper left corner.

Beyond that, the arrival of Final Cut Camera is good news: Apple is finally giving users the ability to use manual controls when recording video. The next step is to expect the same thing to happen in the photo section.

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