Portrait Mode on FaceTime

Apple announced Portrait mode on FaceTime as part of its iOS 15 reveal this week, but it’s naturally coming to the Mac as well — as long as we’re talking about an M1 Mac.

While it’s not quite the virtual backgrounds of Zoom (yet), this will allow you to bokeh out the background of your image when you’re on a FaceTime call, but clearly, it’s something that Intel chips used in Macs just aren’t up for — whether that’s a question of raw performance or simply Apple leveraging the M1’s advanced image signal processing capabilities.