Portrait on IPhone XR

On iPhone XR, the rear-facing camera system supports only Natural Light, Studio Light, and Contour Light.

How to take photos in Portrait mode

1. Open the Camera app and swipe to Portrait mode.
2. Follow the tips on your screen. When Portrait mode is ready, the lighting effect, like Natural Light, turns yellow.
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4. Tap the shutter button .

The Camera app lets you know when you're too close, too far away, or if the area is too dark. You can also use True Tone flash, set a timer, and apply filters. After you take a photo, you can use the built-in editing features to do things like crop and auto-enhance.

If you have iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max, Portrait mode opens to the Telephoto camera. Tap the 2x button if you want to zoom out and use the Wide camera.

When you use the rear camera on iPhone XR, a person's face must be detected in the viewfinder to take a Portrait mode photo.

Add Portrait Lighting

On iPhone X and later, and iPhone 8 Plus, you can use the Portrait Lighting feature to apply studio-quality lighting effects to your Portrait mode images. Choose from Studio Light to brighten facial features, Contour Light for more dramatic directional lighting, Stage Light to isolate your subject in the spotlight, Stage Mono for stage light in a classic black and white, or High-Key Light Mono for a grayscale subject on a white background.

You can take a Portrait mode photo with a real-time preview of the lighting effect on your screen. With your Camera app in Portrait mode, swipe between the different lighting effects that appear in the bottom part of the viewfinder. The Portrait mode photo that you take has the lighting effect applied.

You can also change the Portrait Lighting effect of any Portrait mode photo that you've already taken:

1. Open the Photos app, then select the Portrait mode photo that you want to change.
2. Tap Edit. Lighting effects appear in the bottom part of the photo.
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4. Swipe the lighting effects to choose the one you want.
5. Tap Done.

High-Key Light Mono is available using the front-facing TrueDepth camera and the rear-facing camera system on iPhone XS and later. It's available using the TrueDepth camera on iPhone XR.

Why not? You can choose portrait mode.

However..... it only works on people.

Not animals or objects.