Adobe’s Project Indigo camera finally adds iPhone 17 support

 

Extend Indigo is Adobe’s test camera app, planned to bring a more “natural,” DSLR-style result to versatile photography. 

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Key highlights:

Unlike numerous smartphone camera apps that forcefully hone, boost immersion and apply overwhelming smoothing, Indigo employments a distinctive computational photography pipeline: it under-exposes more emphatically and captures different outlines in quick progression (up to 32 outlines in a few cases) and adjusts and combines those outlines to decrease clamor and hold highlight detail. 

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It gives you full manual controls: center, screen speed, ISO, white adjust. It too yields Crude (DNG) and JPEG, with pipeline preparing prepared in. 

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The thought: protect common surface, dodge the “over-processed smartphone look,” and allow clients more creative/photo-centric controls. 

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Initially propelled (mid-2025) for iPhones: underpins iPhone 12 Pro/Pro Max, iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max, iPhone 14 arrangement, iPhone 15 arrangement, iPhone 16 arrangement. 

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So if you’re into portable photography, particularly with more control and practical preparing, Indigo is one of the more curiously alternatives accessible now.

What’s unused: iPhone 17 arrangement support

Very as of late (late October 2025), Adobe declared that Indigo presently bolsters the iPhone 17 arrangement — but with capabilities. 

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 What is upheld now:

The rear-camera frameworks of the iPhone 17 arrangement are presently upheld by Indigo. This implies clients of iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Professional, iPhone 17 Master Max (and apparently iPhone 17 Also if there is one) can run Indigo and capture utilizing the main/back cameras. 

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The App Store posting clarifies: “Major upgrade: iPhone 17-series back is at long last here!” 

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What is not however supported:

The front/selfie camera on iPhone 17 arrangement is crippled for Indigo at this time. Adobe states this is transitory, pending a settle from Apple. 

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The reason: the iPhone 17 presents a modern square sensor for the front camera (18 MP), supplanting the past rectangular/12 MP setup. That changed sensor and its handling presented incongruencies with Indigo’s pipeline and existing code. 

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Adobe posts that the front-camera bolster will return once Apple ships iOS 26.1, which allegedly incorporates the settle for the basic issue. 

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Why did Indigo battle with the iPhone 17 front camera?

The brief adaptation: equipment + program changes in the iPhone 17 front camera caused startling integration issues for Indigo’s pipeline.

Here’s a more profound dive:

The iPhone 17’s front-camera changes: It’s an 18 MP square sensor, outlined to back both representation and scene selfie modes without turning the phone, also the built-in Center Organize face-tracking highlights. 

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The square sensor arrange and its related preparing separated from earlier iPhone front-cameras. Indigo’s computational photography pipeline — which expect certain sensor characteristics, metadata, frame-burst capture, arrangement, RAW/DNG groups, etc — was not quickly congruous. Adobe clarifies they “ran into a few issues, particularly with the front camera.” 

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Adobe hailed a few of the issues to Apple, and Apple made a settle which will dispatch with iOS 26.1. Until at that point, Indigo debilitates front-camera bolster for those gadgets so that the rear-camera bolster can go out without being blocked. 

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So clients shouldn’t translate “supported” as full bolster however — front-camera clients will have to hold up until both the OS settle and the Indigo overhaul land.

Why this things (and who this is for)

For photography enthusiasts

If you’re somebody who employments your iPhone truly for photography — particularly manual controls, Crude, needing less “phone-camera look” and more “real camera feel” — Indigo’s entry on iPhone 17 is great news. It implies you can presently (generally) utilize the most current iPhone equipment with this pro-oriented app.

For iPhone 17 users

If you as of late bought an iPhone 17 or are arranging to, you’ll need to know:

Good: You can run Indigo on it (raise camera).

Not great however: Selfie/front-camera still unsupported — so if you depend on the front camera for say representations or vlogging inside Indigo, that portion is still pending.

Good workaround: Utilize local camera for selfies until Indigo completely bolsters it; utilize Indigo for rear-camera proficient captures.

Keep an eye on overhauls: Both for iOS 26.1 (Apple) and the following Indigo upgrade (Adobe) to reestablish front-camera support.

For common users

Even if you don’t consider yourself a professional picture taker, this upgrade appears how versatile camera apps are advancing: more manual control, more computational photography advancement, and more choice past the stock camera app. It signals a move in how genuine portable imaging can get.

What you ought to do if you have an iPhone 17 (or arrange to get one) and need to utilize Indigo

Here are a few commonsense steps:

Update your iPhone to the most recent form of iOS. Whereas the current settle (for front camera) is slated for iOS 26.1, it’s continuously great to have the most recent release.

Install or upgrade Venture Indigo from the App Store (be beyond any doubt you’re on the adaptation that unequivocally states iPhone 17 back in the discharge notes). 

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Test the raise camera: Take a few shots utilizing Indigo on the raise camera and compare with the local Camera app (particularly in low-light, zoom, night mode). See how the preparing, tones, surfaces differ.

Be mindful of current limitations:

The front camera will be inaccessible in Indigo until the upgrade lands — so don’t anticipate selfie highlights yet.

Processing may take a few seconds (particularly in night mode or when consolidating numerous outlines) — Indigo’s pipeline is more computationally seriously. 

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Some UI characteristics or availability issues stay (per Indigo FAQ) — so if you utilize Show Zoom, huge content sizes, or openness highlights, you might see covering symbols etc. 

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When the front back arrives, return to your workflow: maybe you’ll utilize Indigo for both raise and front. For presently, arrange accordingly.

What might come following (and what to keep an eye on)

Full front-camera back: Once iOS 26.1 is out and Indigo upgrades, anticipate back for the front camera on iPhone 17.

Android form: Adobe has recommended that an Android discharge is on their “want” list, in spite of the fact that they note it’s altogether challenging. 

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Video bolster: Whereas Indigo as of now centers on still photography, future upgrades may incorporate video capture, more progressed modes, etc.

More computational photography/studio highlights: A few clients may see improvements like more burst outlines, superior night-modes, moved forward super-resolution zoom, integration with Adobe’s other apps (Lightroom, Photoshop) etc.

Broadening bolster over gadget equipment: As more phones receive unused sensors (e.g., square sensors, ultrawide equipment, greater sensors) apps like Indigo will require to adjust — the iPhone 17 front camera issue is a great case consider.