Last year when Apple released the iPhone 16, the company also revealed a new version of the Photographic Styles feature. With it, you had a bunch of different controls for giving your photos a different look — like a filter, but with more substance and control.

Apple has hyped the 48-megapixel 2-in-1 Fusion camera on the iPhone 16e, but it misses features that are available even on three-generations older iPhones.

For the first time in what feels like a very long stretch of iPhones, Apple is not leading with the latest generation of iPhone’s video capabilities as the main marketing point. In fact, the top headlines for the new iPhone 16E have nothing to do with the camera or filmmaking specs at all.

With the iPhone 16 lineup, Apple has completely revamped the Photographic Styles feature – which was first introduced with

As many of you know, Apple announced the iPhone 16e yesterday. That is essentially the iPhone SE 4, but with a new name. With that being said, the iPhone 16e comes with a nerfed version of the iPhone 16’s camera.