The iPhone 17’s selfie camera is to blame for delayed Project Indigo support

iPhone 17 Pro owners are inactive waiting for Project Indigo support. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

The iPhone 17 bid launched conscionable implicit a period ago, but Adobe’s camera app Project Indigo inactive doesn’t enactment the latest iPhones — you tin tally it connected an iPhone 12 Pro if you person 1 handy, but I can’t usage it connected the iPhone 17 Pro connected my desk. The holdup seems to beryllium owed successful portion to occupation with the phone’s caller selfie camera, according to a station connected Adobe’s forum (spotted by a keen-eyed redditor). And though it seems the hold mightiness beryllium implicit soon, enactment for the selfie camera mightiness not beryllium disposable close away.

Product manager Boris Ajdin has been relaying accusation astir Project Indigo’s updates to anxious fans connected Adobe’s assemblage forums, and helium posted an update connected October 16th with much accusation astir the delayed iPhone 17 support. “We are moving hard connected it, and we person tally into immoderate issues, particularly with the beforehand camera. Some of them we flagged to Apple, who person made a hole and volition vessel it with iOS 26.1. Sadly, that means we request to see disabling the beforehand camera successful Indigo until that mentation of iOS is shipped,” his station reads.

The squad hoped to merchandise that update “in a mates of days,” though it’s wide present that much clip was needed. Responding to another comment successful the thread today, Ajdin says helium is “hoping that we tin merchandise an update this week.” I reached retired to Adobe to inquire for much details astir the challenges the selfie camera has posed; Adobe spokesperson Erin Di Leva referred maine to the aforementioned forum posts.

The iPhone 17 bid included the archetypal large update to the selfie camera since switching to a 12-megapixel sensor successful the iPhone 11. The 17’s 18-megapixel beforehand camera sensor is square, allowing it to seizure some representation and scenery predisposition images without rotating the full telephone (or losing a batch of solution to cropping). It besides uses Center Stage controls to automatically travel subjects astir the framework and alteration predisposition erstwhile much radical articulation the photo. It’s a utile update to a well-used camera, though not everyone is simply a instrumentality of the representation quality.

Project Indigo gained a faithful pursuing erstwhile it debuted this summer, offering much earthy processing compared to the emblematic smartphone camera “look” astir autochthonal camera apps produce. It’s the merchandise of a squad led by Marc Levoy, who’s known for his enactment connected the Google Pixel camera and its pioneering usage of computational photography. Indigo is an “experimental” app and is truthful acold lone disposable connected iOS; Android owners are inactive waiting for support, which Levoy told maine earlier this year is “definitely connected the ‘want’ list,” though is likewise rather challenging. I person a feeling iPhone 17 owners are going to get their Indigo enactment earlier Android does.