Apple seems to have abandoned Cinematic mode, and that’s a mistake

The useful part

When Apple unveiled the iPhone 13 back in 2021, it made a huge deal over a headline new feature, Cinematic mode. This is the video equivalent of Portrait mode, allowing you to select a focus point and blur the background. Portrait mode has improved dramatically in successive generations, but the same cannot be said of Cinematic mode.

How it works

• The company appears to have completely lost interest in the feature, and although that's understandable in one way, I would argue it's a big mistake …