Just like every other device, iPhone X comes with its own set of features, such as portrait lighting, that are exclusive to it. Here’s how you can enable portrait lighting on your iPhone 7 plus.
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How Portrait Lighting Enabler works
Developers are beginning to port iPhone X features to older devices, thanks to Coolstar. Here’s a new tweak that ports yet another iPhone X feature.
As its name suggests, Portrait Lighting Enabler Cydia tweak unlocks the iPhone X-exclusive Portrait Lighting feature. It is developed by tweak developer, OverNightmare.
For those who don’t how the portrait mode works on modern devices, here’s a video that explains it in detail.
Unsurprisingly, the stock feature works better than a tweak. Portrait mode on iPhone X and iPhone 8/8+ are way snappier than that on iPhone 7 plus. Other than that, there’s absolutely no difference whatsoever in terms of the photo quality.
Can portrait lighting be ported to older iPhone models?
Unfortunately, this tweak can only support iPhone 7 plus and no other iPhone model will be supported in the future.
Other devices such as iPhone 7 and iPhone 6s plus are incompatible because they lack dual rear-cameras.
Dual rear-cameras are a prerequisite for enabling Portrait mode. Therefore, this feature is only available for the following devices –
- iPhone 7 plus
- iPhone 8 plus
- iPhone X
Download Portrait Lighting Enabler
This is a solid tweak for all iPhone 7 plus owners. Developers have neglected this device for quite a long time so it’s your time to rise and shine. Highly recommended.
Although this tweak works flawlessly, it does have one minor bug. If you click a photo in natural lighting conditions or the default portrait mode, you can’t adjust the Portrait Lighting.
Portrait Lighting Enabler is available for download as a ZIP archive here. It is compatible only with iPhone 7 plus running iOS 11.
You can follow my iOS 11 tweak installation tutorial if you don’t know how to install it.
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Does it work on iPhone 8, makes no sense as iPhone 8 does not have the dual camera.
iPhone 7 plus
iPhone 8 <—
iPhone 8 plus
iPhone X
Yes, you are right about that it doesn’t work on iPhone 8. Edited.
Works on Electra + cidya beta 1.0.2?
Yes, it does.
How to install this on cydia?
It doesn’t have a repository yet so you can wait or install it manually.
Thanks alot , its working fine ❤️❤️❤️
Welcome, Bilal. Glad it worked for you.
Oh, please do update your article! Turns out that wasn’t a bug, it was actually just how apple intended. Default Portrait Mode (now Natural Lighting) does not take the additional metadata of the other lighting modes and changing it to a Natural Light from other modes removes that metadata. It’s like that on the iPhone 8+ and X as well. Also, instead of killall springboard, killall backboardd should do the trick.
source: I am the tweak alpha tester!
Thanks a lot for the tip! I will update it.
I copied files to SB inject but its not working.Only in SB inject right ?
I Installed already eclipse and barrel.
I don’t see any issue there. only this isnt working .
i am missing something ?
I am using 7 plus
For Re spring i am changing bold text to true.
I hope thats not the problem
That’s completely fine.
Yes, only in SBInject.
But i couldbt see options in potrait mode of camera
Weird. It’s working just fine on my iPhone 7 plus.