The topic Adobe’s low-processing camera app expands support to select iPads and the iPhone 17e is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
The new update to Adobe’s experimental camera app adds initial support for iPads with at least 6GB of RAM and the new iPhone 17e. Here are the details.
Last June, Adobe announced an experimental app, Project Indigo, promising to leverage a “custom computational photography pipeline” to offer “a natural image look, and a full set of camera controls.”
Photos produced by Indigo employ computational photography and AI to produce a natural (SLR-like) look for your photos, including special (but gentle) treatment of subjects and skies. This look is applied when generating JPEG images and is embedded as a rendering suggestion in raw DNG files (if enabled). All raw pixels remain intact – the look does not alter them.
Since then, the company has been working to add new features and improvements based on user feedback, in addition to expanding support to new devices.
Last October, the company ran into problems that prevented it from bringing a speedier compatibility with the iPhone 17 lineup, some of which were only solved after Apple released iOS 26.1.
Today, Adobe updated Project Indigo with multiple new features, including:
Additionally, the app is now compatible with the iPhone 17e and with iPads, provided they have at least 6GB of RAM. For reference, that includes the iPad Pro models from 2020 and later, newer iPad Air models (M1 and later), the latest iPad mini, and the 11th-generation iPad.
Adobe notes that today’s update introduces only “initial support” for iPads, and that the app “is not yet tuned” for the device.
To learn more about Adobe Labs’ Project Indigo, follow this link.