Users of new iphone complain of ‘touched up’ selfies

A CAMERA that automatically makes you look good in photographs might be considered by some a selling point.

But users of the new Apple iphone XS have complained that their selfies are being touched up.

The company has not commented publicly on the accusations, but is investigating the claims according to the Apple Insider website, citing anonymous employee sources.

Lewis Hilsenteger, the host of the Youtube channel Unbox Therapy, claimed selfies he had taken looked as though they had been processed through a “covert beauty mode”. He also tweeted an image of himself he said he believed had been subject to “more aggressive skin smoothing” than previous iphone generations.

The topic has also been raised by a number of users on forum site Reddit.

It has been suggested the changes in photos could be the result of improvements in the cameras, which have been updated with “advanced algorithms” powered by Apple’s new A12 Bionic processor to better process images and improve results in low-light settings, the company says.

David Pierini, from the website Cult of Mac, said the technology company’s attempts to remove graininess from images was the likely cause of the change. “Noise reduction tools remove those rogue pixels, but the results often leave a smooth or slightly softer finish to a photo,” he said.  Apple users have complained that their XS iphones are failing to charge when they are plugged in, leaving them with flat batteries.

Apple has not commented on the issue, which has quickly been dubbed “Charge gate”. Failures to charge have been reported by users across social media as well as Apple’s own online forums.