Apple has a ‘Beautygate’ fix in the works for your iPhone XS, rolling out soon in iOS 12.1 : When Apple unveiled the iPhone XS and XS Max, future buyers of the company’s priciest mobile devices to date were promised significant camera performance upgrades and neat new photography tricks like Smart HDR and dynamic depth of field.
The single front-facing shooter, while nowhere near as aggressively promoted as the dual rear cam system, was also supposed to gain a number of big improvements, including that aforementioned Depth Control feature for adjusting the blur of your Portrait mode selfies.
Worse yet, there was no way to turn off the “feature”, which basically applied a mysterious skin smoothing technique to every single photo shot with the 7MP front camera of the XS and XS Max. While that made selfies prettier and crisper in many situations, others were far too aggressively “optimized.”