Front facing camera shots mirrored?

Yes I noticed this right away as well. I don't like it either, they should have some setting on there where you could make it not do that.

Try it with something with words. I think it flips the picture so you can read what might be behind you. Otherwise it would be backwards.

Kind of cool though.

The image displayed by the camera app while taking the picture is mirrored. The image recorded is not. Place something in the frame with printing on it. The image displayed by the camera is mirrored, just like if you hold an object with printing on it in front of a mirror. But the image recorded in photos is flipped to the correct orientation. I think Apple got this one right.

We are used to looking at ourselves in a mirror. It would be quite disorienting to move your hand into the image from the right, and have it show up on the left of your screen. Technically correct, but wrong from our perspective looking at the image.