Apple is preparing advanced photography tools for the iPhone with iOS 27, including exposure scopes, focus peaking, and expanded manual focus controls. New beta code, first spotted by pdfu, a MacRumors forum regular, reveals five potential features. The exposure scopes feature will include waveform and histogram displays to help users judge exposures, with the histogram showing pixel over- or underexposure percentages and the waveform mapping this data to frame areas.

Focus peaking will highlight in-focus edges with colored outlines and warn of overexposure. Manual focusing will resemble the Final Cut Camera app, potentially restricted to iOS 27 devices. Apple may also introduce aperture-based image corrections for future iPhones with variable apertures, possibly the iPhone 18 Pro.

These features won't be available in current betas and may not all launch in September.