![]() ![]() Although its load on those cores is significant, all M1 models should cope with this fine. When it’s enabled, Portrait uses only the E cores in your M1 Mac, so shouldn’t affect the great majority of your own apps. It’s turned on by opening the FaceTime app and enabling it in the Control Centre.Ĭompare the image above, with Portrait turned off, with that below, with it turned on, and you should see what it does. This isn’t simply changing camera focussing, which doesn’t appear to be a feature of any of Apple’s built-in cameras, but based on real-time image recognition and processing. To be able to use it, you’ll need an M1 series Mac with a supported camera, which looks like the built-in camera in the M1 iMac or one of the notebooks. Portrait mode is officially a Video Effect, the first of what looks like a list which will grow in the future. Although they’re a little strange, I’m impressed. ![]() At that stage, I couldn’t explore its new Portrait or microphone modes properly, something I’ve managed more recently. When researching a feature article for MacFormat and Mac|Life magazines, I had to take screenshots from a group FaceTime call, and realised how much it had improved in Monterey. But I’ve also been very happy keeping in touch with our children and others using Messages, which doesn’t demand simultaneous presence. That’s partly because, for the next ten days, my Internet connection is a bit of wet string which seldom exceeds 4 Mbps.
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