{
  "id": 271358,
  "title": "Apple seems to have abandoned Cinematic mode, and that’s a mistake",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/07/apple-seems-to-have-abandoned-cinematic-mode-and-thats-a-mistake",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-07T16:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "9to5Mac",
    "slug": "9to5mac",
    "url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/07/apple-seems-to-have-abandoned-cinematic-mode-and-thats-a-mistake/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "When Apple unveiled the iPhone 13 back in 2021, it made a huge deal over a headline new feature, Cinematic mode . This is the video equivalent of Portrait mode, allowing you to select a focus point and blur the background. Portrait mode has improved dramatically in successive generations, but the same cannot be said of Cinematic mode. The company appears to have completely lost interest in the…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}