Portrait Mode
One nice surprise that Apple included in the iPhone SE — which really shouldn’t have surprised us when we think about it — was the addition of Portrait Mode to both the rear and front cameras.
While the iPhone SE doesn’t support the more advanced iPhone 11 features like Deep Fusion and Night Mode, as these clearly still require the extra lens, it does offer the exact same Portrait Mode features, including all six Portrait Lighting effects, plus the ability to edit the bokeh effects for pictures you’ve already shot.
The iPhone XR also debuted support for Portrait Mode through its single-lens camera, although this was limited to taking pictures of people, since it relied on machine learning to identify faces, and only human faces qualified, not pets. While it’s unclear if the iPhone SE will have similar limitations, the extra power of the A13 CPU means that it should be able to do a better job with Portrait Mode either way, and even if Apple’s built-in camera app still can’t get a Portrait Mode shot of fluffy or fido, there are already third-party apps like Halide that have managed to figure this out on the iPhone XR, so there’s no reason to expect that the iPhone SE will be any more of a challenge for them.