Before I updated my phone to IOS 17 my photos were fine. Obviously I had photos that I did take as Panoramas. Those are not the issue. After Installing IOS 17 a good chunk of photos that were taken originally as regular photos in photo mode from my previous Android phone were somehow automatically converted to Panoramas.
iPhone 14, iOS 17
Keith Barkley wrote:
The system simply uses the aspect ratio.
That seems to be the case. I did a quick test and took a 4:3 image. I also took a "maximum" panorama and a very "small" panorama with iPadOS 17.6 and imported them via Image Capture. Then I cropped the 4:3 image to 16:9, 16:8, 16:7 and 16:6. Then imported all to Photos.
macOS 14.6 Photos.app categorized only the "maximum" panorama, 16:7 and 16:6 crops as panoramas, NOT the very "small" panorama although it was shot as a panorama.
So it seems there is no tag to define panorama and there is a certain aspect ratio to trigger that at least on macOS (I did not test this on iPadOS Photos).
Richard.Taylor wrote:
But other than being listed that way, they look just as I intended for them to. Really, what differenced does it make?
I very seldom use that panorama widget. But I have some images that I deliberately took as very wide panoramas and that is a quick shortcut to find them. The trigger aspect ratio seems to be about 2:1.
It may depend on the device model.
I am seeing this tag "Custom Rendered: Panorama" in exiftool on my Mac for my iPhone 15 Pro Max panos, also for my iPhone 11 Pro Max, also on old panos from my iPhone X and iPhone 5s.
This tag has previously been used to mark HDR photos, and we could see a HDR badge overlay on the thumbnails in Photos for Mac, but Apple stopped using this tag for HDR. I can now see HDR photos in a smart album Photo is HDR, but iPhone 15 photos are not showing the HDR badge, even in this smart album. I noticed the Panoramic Tag in 2020: How to add the HDR Media Type Badge to Ph… - Apple Community
There was a post along similar lines a while back. The system simply uses the aspect ratio. These images must have that ratio.
So what dimensions show for the affected pictures?
How do you mean "converted to panoramas"?
Was their aspect ratio or cropping changed to make them look like panoramas?
Were they categorized as panoramas because they looked like panoramas?
Were they miscategorized as panoramas even though they looked like normal photos?
Something else?
I don't really get this. I've cropped several pictures to be way wider than tall, and they get listed as panoramas. But other than being listed that way, they look just as I intended for them to. Really, what differenced does it make?
Just curious what I'm missing...
The aspect ratio is not the only difference between a panorama taken by moving the camera around and stitching a pano and a wide-angle shot cropped to 2:1. The projection is different. The stitched panorama will have a cylindrical projection, the wide angle shot a spherical projection. The cylindrical projection will look much more natural in an all-around projection on my Apple Vision pro than the cropped wide angle shot.
When I take a panoramic photo with my iPhone 15 Pro Max it will have an exif tag "Custom Rendered : Panorama", when I check with exiftool.
The images, that are just having a panoramic aspect ratio are not having this tag, not even the panoramas I have stitched with Panorama Maker or Luminar Neo.
On my Mac I have assigned a keyword "Panorama" to the photos, that have been taken as panoramas, so I can create a smart album with true panoramas. Unfortunately, this smart album is not available on my Apple Vision Pro, so I have to duplicate it as a standard album.
léonie wrote:
When I take a panoramic photo with my iPhone 15 Pro Max it will have an exif tag "Custom Rendered : Panorama", when I check with exiftool.
That must be a new tag because AFAIR my iPadAir 5th gen did not have that panorama tag when I recently tested it.
They were normal photos that were taken in landscape photo mode but not in panoramic mode. If they are categorized as panorama but are not, is there a way to fix that?
It was Leonie that did the legwork last time.
why did my photos automatically convert into panoramas after IOS 17 update?
