Release Notes

What shipped, and when.

Every released version of xMosaique, newest first. A build still in review is not listed until the App Store serves it.

  1. Version 1.3.2

    Latest
    • xMosaique now runs on iOS 18 and later, several iPhone generations further back than before — including phones the app would not install on at all until this version.
    • Bloom is new: bright highlights spread into a wide, soft glow as you shoot — the Pro-Mist filter look, made in the light itself rather than painted on afterwards.
    • Light Leak is new too — a warm wash across the frame, as if the film door had been left ajar. Set how strong and how saturated it is, and it turns with the camera as you rotate the phone.
    • Both effects sit in the pills beside the shutter: tap to switch one on, press and hold to adjust it.
    • Highlights, Shadows and Whites read the scene before they act, so a bright sky and a dim interior each get the recovery they need.
    • Deep shadows hold their colour instead of sliding towards grey.
    • Contrast carries saturation with it now, the way film does.
    • Strong colour rolls off smoothly at the top end instead of shifting hue.
    • All twelve bundled looks render through the rebuilt engine. The looks themselves are unchanged — the same preset renders your photograph more cleanly than it did before.
    • The date stamp burns deeper and hotter, with its own saturation control.
    • The stamp holds its colour over a vivid background as well as a dull one.

  2. Version 1.2.2

    • XQ Digital is the twelfth look, and the first that is not a film emulation — bright and vivid, with lush greens, golden yellows and clean sky blues. The one to reach for on a landscape.
    • Select several presets at once in the Preset Manager and delete them together, instead of one at a time.
    • Export a selection straight to Files — for backing up a collection, or moving it to another phone.
    • The delete confirmation says exactly how many presets you are about to remove, correctly, in every language.
    • Changing lenses is about twice as fast on the main and ultra-wide cameras — they now switch about as quickly as the telephoto always did.
    • Opening the app no longer starts on black: the last thing the viewfinder saw covers the moment before the camera is ready.
    • Lens changes dissolve softly instead of holding on a frozen frame.
    • The date stamp burns onto the photo the way the adjust menu shows it — it had been previewed against a dark panel, where it looked brighter than it landed.

  3. Version 1.2.1

    • Built-in looks now update with the app — until this version, an update could not revise a look already on your phone. Your imported presets and your own names for things are left alone.
    • Seven of the eleven bundled looks were revised against colour measurements rather than by eye.
    • Tungsten is genuinely cool now — it was named after a white balance it never applied — with red saturation held up so skin stays alive.
    • Golden carries its warmth in the midtones, where a blue highlight tint had been working against it, and Green Accent finally lifts green.
    • Mono Tone gains a cool-shadow, warm-highlight split, so black and white is no longer flatly neutral — and a black-and-white photo can take a pure white glow with no colour cast.
    • The cinema-inspired looks carry more grain, dialled to the format each production was shot on.
    • Fine, Medium and Coarse grain are properly distinct — they used to differ so slightly that the choice barely showed — and fine grain no longer breaks up in the viewfinder.
    • Grain fades away in deep shadows and blown highlights instead of sitting on top of them, which was what made it read as digital noise rather than film.
    • Each film stock has its own grain strength, the way real film does — some are three or four times grainier than others.
    • Switching lenses is clean: no wrong framing as you cross a zoom step, no brightness re-measure and no blink.
    • Exposure bracketing captures the right steps at both photo sizes, and shows its progress as it goes.
    • The viewfinder no longer jumps or stutters when you tap shutter, ISO, flash or resolution.
    • The zoom control is easier to reach, with the exposure readout on the dial and a small map showing where you are in the frame.

  4. Version 1.2.0

    • Flash photos now run end to end on the iPhone's own flash exposure system — a dark room takes one clean burst, with nothing lighting the scene beforehand.
    • Fill flash in a room with decent light no longer overexposes: the background is held back so the flash lights your subject.
    • Auto flash in daylight stays quiet and takes the ordinary exposure.
    • With flash on, the Camera Control and volume buttons fire as quickly as the on-screen shutter — they used to hang back.
    • The front camera's screen flash gets the same highlight handling as the rear.
    • The white balance slider is even across its whole length — the cool half used to be crushed into a sliver at one end.
    • Semi-auto white balance sits exactly on neutral in the middle, with a gentle warm or cool lean either side that behaves the same in any light.
    • With shutter and ISO set by hand, the viewfinder matches the brightness of the photo — a slow shutter used to preview far darker than it saved.
    • Dim scenes with a face in the frame reach the slower, cleaner exposure more reliably, and every manual shot tells you if it could not use the settings you dialed.
    • Swiping between looks no longer stops working after a stray two-finger touch on the viewfinder.

  5. Version 1.1.0

    • Flash photos expose for the light the flash actually adds, so faces close to the camera stop washing out.
    • A dark room is lit steadily rather than by a pulse, at any distance — night shots keep their warmth instead of clipping.
    • Dim scenes reach for a slower shutter before pushing sensitivity, and faces are metered before the flash fires.
    • Presets exported from recent versions of Lightroom now load completely — some of their settings used to be skipped.
    • Adjustments a preset applies to only part of the frame come through at their full intended strength.
    • Grain holds its size relative to the frame, and vignettes, contrast and colour shifts follow the preset's design far more closely.
    • Sharpening, local contrast, haze removal and vignetting look the same in the viewfinder as in the saved file.
    • The viewfinder no longer slows to a crawl after a one-second exposure.
    • A shutter or ISO change mid-shot applies to the next photo, and long exposures hold one exposure from the first frame to the last.
    • A higher-fidelity colour option, plus Low Light Enhancement and iOS Processing switches in Settings.