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TL;DR
- The most recent replace to the brand new Challenge Indigo app disables super-resolution by default on many iPhones.
- The adjustments seem geared toward lowering overheating and stability points reported in early exams.
- Different tweaks embody thermal warning changes and decrease seize charges on weaker units.
After we examined Challenge Indigo final month, we have been impressed with its lifelike pictures, however the app additionally brought on our iPhone 16 to run sizzling and freeze up. Indigo is constructed by two of the creators behind Google’s Pixel digicam app, and now a contemporary replace (Model 10.2) has landed this week that seems to handle these kinds of points.
Based on the discharge notes, the Indigo replace disables super-resolution by default on the iPhone 14 Professional, 14 Professional Max, 15, and 15 Plus fashions. It additionally tweaks thermal warnings so that they solely seem when the machine reaches a “vital” temperature state quite than earlier within the overheating course of.
Different adjustments embody high quality fixes for multi-frame super-resolution in scenes with each vivid and low dynamic vary areas, in addition to lowered photograph seize charges on lower-performing units to enhance stability. Tech Previews are additionally now disabled whereas captures are processing, and the replace rounds out with basic bug fixes and enhancements.

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Whereas the replace doesn’t explicitly point out efficiency or overheating fixes, many of those changes appear geared toward lowering the app’s processing load and stopping the warmth build-up that may very well be the reason for crashes.
There’s nonetheless no timeline for the Android model of Indigo, however the builders beforehand confirmed it’s within the works.