Apple had planned to acquire the company behind Halide last summer, the popular third-party camera app for iOS, new court documents reveal.
Halide, first released in 2017, gave smartphone photographers more granular, manual control over their images. Its setting, Project Zero, allowed users to skirt some of the iPhone’s automatic image processing, achieving more natural contrasts and shadows. Its most recent iteration, Halide Mark II, costs $19.99 per year for a subscription or…

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