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Apple overhauls RAW photo processing with iOS 27, showcases impressive results

Apple overhauls RAW photo processing with iOS 27, showcases impressive results

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Apple is updating its system-level image processing engine to RAW 9 in iOS 27, significantly improving detail and low-light performance on supported devices.
What: The update utilizes the Apple Neural Engine to handle demosaicing and noise reduction for RAW photos, including backwards compatibility for nearly 800 camera models.
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Apple is introducing RAW 9 in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, its biggest upgrade yet to the system-level RAW image processing engine. Powered by on-device machine learning and the Apple Neural Engine, RAW 9 combines demosaicing and noise reduction to deliver sharper details, more accurate colors, and significantly better low-light performance—even when reprocessing older RAW photos from nearly 800 supported camera models.

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