If you have aniPhone Xor 8 Plus, then you might be familiar with thePortrait Lightingfeature that Apple conveniently bundled into your handset’s stockCameraapp. It applies professional lighting effects to your photo subject with the help of your device’s dual camera setup and powerful processor.
The iPhone 7 Plus also sports a dual camera setup and a powerful processor, butAppleuses software to limit Portrait Lightning to the iPhone X and 8 Plus. Fortunately, a new freejailbreak tweakdubbedLightsOnby iOS developerVoltizedcan fix that.
Upon installing LightsOn, you’ll be able to access the Portrait Lighting feature on youriPhone 7 Plusfrom the stock Camera app by swiping to it just like you would if you were switching fromphotomode to video mode.
Portrait Lighting is undoubtedly optimized for Apple’s latest handsets with theA11 Bionic chip. That said, it’s a bit less performance-friendly on the previous-generationA10 Fusion chip. Nevertheless, it’s usable and can yield exciting results in your photos with a bit of practice.
Notably, LightsOn doesn’t enable Portrait Lighting on any handset besides the iPhone 7 Plus, and this is because ofhardwarelimitations. That said, it can’t port the feature to the iPhone 8, iPhone 7, or older; sorry folks!
If the tweak doesn’t seem to be working for you after installation, the developer recommends force-quitting the Camera app from yourApp Switcherand restarting it to solve the problem.
If you’re interested in giving LightsOn a try, you candownload it for free from Cydia’s BigBoss repository. The tweak supports alljailbrokenversions ofiOS 11and doesn’t have any options to configure.
Have you tried Portrait Lighting on your iPhone 7 Plus with LightsOn yet? Let us know in the comments.
