“Optical Image Stabilization was a weird and under-described addition to the iPhone 6 Plus over the stock iPhone 6; photographers eventually determined it was primarily assisting the iPhone in taking sharper still images in low light,” Jeremy Horwitz reports for 9to5Mac.
“For the iPhone 6s, it remains a Plus-only feature, but this time, Apple is actively noting that OIS works for video, as well, presumably to reduce shake — as people would have expected in last year’s model,” Horwitz reports. “Another interesting detail: 4K videos are being recorded in H.264, and Apple is no longer making reference to H.265 support for any purpose, FaceTime or otherwise.”
Horwitz reports, “Finally, an iOS 9 feature called ‘Playback Zoom,’ which lets you zoom in on parts of your video after recording, is supposedly supported for the 6s and 6s Plus but not earlier iPhones. I stumbled across the feature when testing iOS 9 on my prior 6 Plus, so I’m not sure why Apple’s limiting it here.”
Nine more things you didn’t know about iPhone 6s / 6s Plus, Apple TV 4, iPad Pro and iPad mini 4 here.
MacDailyNews Take: Loved OIS on our iPhone 6 Pluses. Can’t wait to try out the latest itreration on our iPhone 6s Pluses!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Does 6S+ still have 240 slow motion? Great for us golfers.
No doubt.😃💥👀
The headline suggests that they are removing it from the 6+. 6S+ is not the only as suggested.
It’s not unusual for Apple to limit software features to only the latest devices when they work fine on earlier models [via a jailbreak]. Some will claim Apple does it because it doesn’t work “perfectly” on the older model like it does on the newer one, while others claim it’s just to drive people to buy a new phone.