Apple locks Texture and Grain controls to iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo

Apple quietly rewrote its iPhone 18 Pro announcement: the new Texture and Grain controls in Photographic Styles are now exclusive to iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo. The original newsroom release and iOS 27 docs had listed iPhone 16, iPhone 17 and iPhone Air as compatible.

• Texture and Grain layer on top of Photographic Styles for skin texture and film grain
• The first press release listed iPhone 16, iPhone 17 and iPhone Air as compatible
• The updated footnote limits the feature to iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo
• Apple has not explained the change in compatibility