Project Indigo is a sophisticated camera app designed by Adobe, giving full control over levels of color processing achieved with professional optical devices. This app is meant for many content creators and mobile photographers out there. And although this really worked wonders on either iPhone 15, or iPhone 16, it is where the trouble begins of compatibility with Apple iPhone 17.
Changes in Apple iPhone 17 Selfie Camera
Major changes integrated to the phone in its frontal camera are elucidated here as follows:
An 18MP sensor
Advanced HDR processing
AI face tracking and gathering framing
For sure, all these must have added much more value to the camera quality but somewhat challenging for the developers to code with modern technologies.
What Delayed Support From Project Indigo
According to the Project Indigo team, New sensors are going to be completely different from the previous ones in terms of calibration and frame rendering by the iPhone 17. Hence, the application crashes in viewfinder and real-time processing for apps using the forward-facing camera.
They say-
"App crashing while processing from front camera."
"New algorithm fails to get proper color balance and exposure."
"Apple does not open some camera APIs yet to developers."
Thus, Adobe has to postpone the support for the selfie camera.
What Are The Options Available For Customers Currently?
For now, iPhone 17 users can enjoy Project Indigo's rear camera mode, which has all of its features functioning. Adobe plans to reintroduce front-facing camera support through future updates with iOS 26.1 or later potentially becoming the release window for that update.
Indeed, the selfie camera is more advanced technology on the iPhone 17 than ever before. But most affected by this is Project Indigo. Both Apple and Adobe are now working on the problem at hand. For users, this may potentially be a temporary matter, but most likely will be fixed in the nearest time through an update. Whenever the time comes for new technology to roll out, a few bumps in the road will be normal. And it is clear at this point that has happened with the iPhone 17.
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