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Your Project Indigo is excellent, but my phone is an iPhone13Pro max with iOS15.2. I really like the color tone of your product. Ever since I tried it on my friend's phone, I've been eager to use it on my device, but I don't want to upgrade my iPhone.
By @yulong_3753
Thank you for reaching out. As was mentioned before, we are already considering dropping support for 18.x and requiring 26.x because of some critical fixes and improvements it introduces - it is not that it is impossible to maintain two versions like that, it is that our team is too small to do that effectivelly: you need to both design the UX, implement the features, and test everything twice, for which we don't have the bandwidth. This policy towards older devices and OS versions may change if Indigo is productized (currently it's just an experimental app for us to implement and test new technologies and collect feedback from users), but there are no firm commitments to something like that yet.
Since the last update on my iPhone 15 Pro Max something has gone amiss. If shoot one photo, I then get a preview of that photo says "Preview only, tap here to develope" which I do and it devlopes, bu then I get another preview with the same message. I have tried this for six time and it just keeps repeating.....maybe there is a setting I missed????
By @instanes1
If you capture a DNG-only photo, then Indigo does not spend compute cycles to generate it's signature image "look". Instead, we use Apple's built-in DNG viewer to generate the image rendering, and that viewer ignores some of the tags in the DNG so the final rendering quality is poor. When you develop the photo, we run our AI look, generate a JPEG, and save it as a new file in the Camera Roll. You should notice that a new file was added to the filmstrip in Indigo when the processing is done. We do not do any catalogging in the background to "connect" the DNG and the processed JPEG images together - they are separate assets in the Camera Roll and as far as Indigo is concerned. In the future we may change the processing we do for DNGs (for example, we may tune sharpening, or adjust the tone mapping) so when you re-develop the DNG later the JPEG you get should look different and you can compare the old and the new. We may add some tracking of these generated JPEGs in the future, though there is no commitment to do so. It is the user's resposibility to track these. Please reach out if you have more questions or need more guidance on best practices around this.
Boris - you've mentioned in the past how the team has (rightly) turned its eyes to iOS26. Some of your posts and the app release notes have indicated that iOS26 has offered improved image quality, focus, etc.
As an iOS18 holdover for other reasons (stability, some of the Bluetooth/Apple Car Play issues in the release build), are you able to articulate exactly how (and maybe why) iOS26 on a singular device (iPhone 16 Pro in my case) would improve through a major software release like this? Is focus the main improvement, or are there other significant improvements along the image pipeline that affected what the Adobe team was able to do?
By @Moonboots22
For now, the only improvement with iOS 26 would be that Apple Photos no longer cause weird color shifting when editing Indigo JPEGs (on iOS 18.x that still happens and may not be fixed with any future updates). Other improvements will be coming down the pipe, but they include better tap to focus/expose behavior, especially when you use digital zoom, and using iOS' new background processing API which will allows us to continue processing captured images in the background without losing them as often. We are still very busy with iPhone 17 support and bringup so haven't yet started on these specific iOS 26 features, but once those are in, the benefits to the user experience should be really noticeable.
@BorisTheBlade Can you make the night mode have more agressive predefined looks like gcam had with its night sight which looked really bright and vivid? I find indigo night mode to produce very clean results but as soon as there is very low light when i edit the raw in lightroom and bring up the shadows i loose color detail and sometimes it is noisier than expected. Also will there be improvements to the super res zoom algorithm soon meaning solving the misalignmnents when there are moving subjects or leaves or foliage and detail improvements in all corners of the image even if there is subject motion? Thank you!
By @????????_4983
Any updates to the look, including adding new looks, are time-involving - we definitely need to test on tons of images, and sometimes we need a lot of images while developing these new looks. We are indeed working on various look improvements, so please stay tuned. Super-resolution is a bit easier in that regard since there are fewer use-cases we need to test for, so we'll keep improving it over time.
@BorisTheBlade Hello! I would like to request a feature which i think the team is capable of adding. That is using the aligning and merging algorithm from super res zoom for night modw like in google camera which improved detail and clarity in daylight vs just HDR+ which would be appreciated. Thank you!
By @powerful_Elixir5E29
Sorry, I am not sure I understand... can you elaborate?
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