There’s more to a great camera phone than hardware. Sure, camera sensors, focal lengths, and the chipset all have a major role to play. However, a phone’s camera app can make or break the experience.

Photography has come a long way on mobile phones. Back in the good old days, most phones had perfunctory shooters that were there, but over the last decade, phone makers have put an incredible amount ...

Among the most ballyhooed changes coming to Apple’s mobile operating system later this year is a revamped, streamlined Camera app. During the unveiling of iOS 26 earlier this month at its Worldwide ...

Adobe has launched a new experimental camera app for iPhone called Project Indigo. Built by Adobe’s research team, the app is free to use and gives mobile photographers more control over their shots.

Xiaomi is giving its long-criticized camera app a full-scale overhaul. For years, the app has been considered one of the weakest parts of Xiaomi’s otherwise solid mobile photography system. Despite ...

Samsung is teasing a Galaxy S26 camera workflow that blends shooting, AI editing, and sharing in one place. The key questions now are model support, privacy, and whether features run on-device. The ...