Earlier today, Samsung released a new update for its Camera Assistant app. It brought the Auto lens switching feature, which was so far only available for Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S23 series, to several older Galaxy devices. The Galaxy S23 phones also gained an exclusive “prioritize focus over speed” feature. Turns out this feature will not remain exclusive to the latest Galaxy flagships for long. It will trickle down to at least the Galaxy S22 lineup at a later date.
Shortly after Samsung announced this Camera Assistant update, users on its community forums started to question if the focus priority function will be available to other Galaxy devices. An official forum moderator responded confirming that it will push the new feature to the Galaxy S22 series. They didn’t share a precise timeline regarding the availability, though. All we know is that the feature will reach the 2022 Galaxy flagships down the line. There’s no word yet on the availability of the “prioritize focus over speed” feature for other Galaxy models.
As the name suggests, this feature lets you prioritize the autofocus quality at the cost of speed. Autofocus may take longer but your Galaxy S23 will ensure that the entire frame is in focus before you take the shot. Disabling it will allow you to capture shots as immediately after opening the camera app even if the frame is not in focus. The images may come out partially or completely blurry, though. Nonetheless, it’s nice to have choices. When “prioritize focus over speed” is disabled, you will not miss out on the perfect moment due to focusing delay.
Other Galaxy S23 camera features will also reach older models
Samsung introduced multiple new camera features with the Galaxy S23 series. At least one of them will reach older models. We are talking about the Image Clipper feature that lets you instantly crop out part of an image by simply holding onto it with your finger or S Pen in the Gallery app. You can save the cropped image as a separate file or paste it somewhere else. The Galaxy S22 and Galaxy S21 series will reportedly get Image Clipper next month.
Meanwhile, Samsung pushed a massive new camera update to the Galaxy S23 series earlier today. The devices picked up several nifty improvements, including reduced flickering in low-light videos from the ultrawide camera, improved night sky videos in high-resolution mode (50MP or 200MP), and a few bug fixes. Some of those changes may reach older Galaxy models too. Stick around and find out.
2023-03-31 15:09:41