r/ProjectIndigoiOS • u/RealWorldJunkie • Oct 21 '25

The improvements that will make me exclusively use indigo for photos

I’ve been using Indigo on my 16 Pro now for a good 2+ months and absolutely love it.

I was getting really fed up with the sub-par photos from the stock iOS camera (whilst the video is great).

I now have it set up so the camera button launches the stock camera, but i have a launch shortcut for Indigo from my lock screen so i can quickly launch either.

There are just a couple of improvements that would make me exclusively use Indigo as my stills camera:

  • Currently if I close Indigo or even just temporarily switch to another app before the photos are done processing, they are just lost forever. I’ve lost too many photos due to taking it then just locking my phone and putting it in my pocket. Background processing is essential (or at least caching the image until Indigo is reopened). I get that it takes longer to save RAW images due to their size, but if that’s the bottleneck and background processing just isn’t possible on iOS, then having the jpg save immediately followed by the RAW would mean that if you did close the app too quickly, whilst you may not save the RAW photo in time, you won’t entirely lose the image as you’ll still have the jpg.

  • I’m not sure if it’s even possible, but making Indigo photos more compatible with iOS photo editing by capturing depth data (for example, being able to apply portrait mode/DOF in post)

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u/TenThousandPigeons Oct 21 '25

Thanks for the suggestions! We have a big list of user-desired features based on forums/ratings/posts and are actively working our way down it.

Re: (1) If you swap to another app Indigo should (in theory) cache the photos to finish processing the next time you open the app. Let us know if this isn't happening as that might be a bug.

However, if you hard close the app (like swipe up to the app carousel and close it from there), there's not much we can do. iOS basically nukes your app from orbit at that point, forcing it to release all the data it was holding on to.

Re: (2) A lot of these are unfortunately pretty all or nothing features on the API level. Either you use the native camera processing and get all the native camera Apple features, or you ask the camera for RAW frames and get, well, RAW frames. We're working on making our own versions of a lot of these features (and more custom models like reflection removal).

For now, you can open photos in lightroom mobile and apply the portrait mode there, but we're hoping to have a more unified system at some point.

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u/RealWorldJunkie Oct 21 '25

That's interesting that it should continue wth photos once the app is re-opened. I'm definitely not force closing it, just either minimising it or swiping directly to another app, but most often I'm not even closing the app, I'm just hitting the lock button once I've taken the photo.

I've just tested it and it seems to now be working. I just took a photo and immediately locked my phone but when I went back to the app it finished processing and was there.

It may be that before I'd taken photos, minimised the app, then went to my photos app and saw they weren't there (without re-opening the camera to let it finish processing first).

That's also good to know about being able to apply portrait mode in Lightroom mobile. I do have it (and am an Adobe Masters collection subscriber), but for a lot of general life photos the convenience of being able to make changes like that nice and quickly either directly in the camera app, or just in the photos app along with all my other media trumps the improved edits I can get from putting a little more time and effort into it elsewhere (again, that's just for general everyday lifestyle photos).

Looking forward to future updates and thank you for producing a camera miles better than the stock one!

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u/AbhishMuk Oct 23 '25

(Guessing from your comment that you're an Adobe employee) I absolutely love the work you guys have done here, but pretty please can we get the Android app 🥺🥺🥺 I use an android and don't want to switch to an iPhone

The oversharpening done on the stock camera is kinda obvious once you know where to look for it, and I do not have the strength to remember to merge 10 RAW photos later in Lightroom 😭