Real ProCam Support

Questions, problems or feedback: write to [email protected]. Please mention your iPhone model, the iOS version and the app version.

For version 2.0 · Last updated: 8 November 2026

• Getting started
• Manual, Visual and Auto
• The controls
• Lenses
• Slow modes on a tripod
• Waterfalls
• Night Sky
• Night Town
• Recent shots and Photo Info
• RAW and ProRAW
• Processing and noise reduction
• Supported iPhones

Getting started

1. On first launch, allow Camera access and Add Photos access. The app only adds photos to your library; it cannot read the photos already there.
2. Choose a lens with the 0.5×, 1×, 2×, 4× or 8× buttons on the viewfinder.
3. Choose how to shoot under the viewfinder: MANUAL, VISUAL or AUTO.
4. Take the photo with the round shutter button, a volume button or Camera Control.

The top bar shows the format (HEIF, JPEG, TIFF, RAW or ProRAW), the real size of the next photo in megapixels and the aspect ratio. Tap them, or the settings button on the right, to change them. The self-timer (3 or 7 seconds) and the flash are on the left.

Manual, Visual and Auto

• MANUAL: the ISO, shutter speed and aperture you set are exactly the values in the photo file. One frame with minimal processing. The badge in the readout says MAN.
• VISUAL: you set it the same way, and the photo gets the iPhone's full processing for a cleaner, more detailed picture with the look of your settings. The ISO and shutter speed in the file can differ slightly from your dials; Photo Info shows the real ones. Works with HEIF, JPEG and TIFF. The badge says VIS.
• AUTO: everything automatic with the iPhone's full processing. On the 4× and 8× cameras the app adds a stronger noise reduction. In AUTO the ISO, S and ƒ buttons are inactive; choose MANUAL or VISUAL to set them. AUTO stays chosen when you change the lens.

Going from AUTO to MANUAL or VISUAL starts from the values the camera was using, so the picture does not jump.

The controls

• ISO, S (shutter speed) and ƒ (aperture): tap one to show its dial and drag. AUTO on the dial hands that value back to the camera. Yellow means manual. You can set one, two or all three by hand.
• EV: exposure compensation, in 1/3 stops, while ISO or shutter speed is automatic.
• WB: white balance: Auto, Sunny, Cloudy, Shade, Tungsten, Fluorescent or Flash.
• MF: manual focus. In autofocus, tap the viewfinder to focus.
• Readout and Δ: the live ISO, shutter speed and aperture are shown above the lens buttons. With manual values, Δ shows how many stops your exposure is from the metered one; a dark photo taken on purpose stays dark.
• Histogram, grid and level: switch them on or off in the settings.

Lenses

• A button for every rear camera: 0.5× (Ultra Wide), 1× (main), 2× (a 12 MP crop of the main camera) and the telephoto (3×, 4× or 5×, depending on your iPhone).
• 8× on iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro: a 12 MP crop of the 48 MP telephoto.
• Every lens button remembers its own manual settings.
• The front camera is the button on the right of the shutter.

Slow modes on a tripod (beta)

The moon button at the top switches between Photo and three slow modes: Waterfalls, Night Sky and Night Town. Each one takes many frames over 10 to 30 seconds and combines them into one photo. They are marked beta: we are still improving them.

How to use them

1. Put the iPhone on a tripod or on something that does not move.
2. Tap the moon button and choose the mode.
3. In Waterfalls and Night Town, set ISO, shutter speed and aperture yourself (these modes are manual). Night Sky chooses its values itself.
4. Press the shutter. A 3 second countdown starts so the iPhone stops shaking after your touch.
5. Do not touch the iPhone until the progress finishes. If the iPhone moves, nothing is taken.
6. Tap the progress to stop at any time; nothing is saved then.

Before the countdown each mode checks the scene. When the scene does not suit it, the app offers the mode that will give a good photo, or you can cancel. Slow-mode photos are always 4:3, and Photo Info says how many frames were combined and at which values.

Waterfalls

Smooth, silky water in daylight without an ND filter. Fully manual: for 20 seconds the app takes about 600 frames with exactly your values and combines them. Nothing is brightened or darkened by the app: the exposure is the one you set and see in the viewfinder. The finished photo gets white water with texture, lively colours, local contrast and a light noise reduction, with no sharpening.

• Start with a low ISO and a shutter speed between 1/60 and 1/200 s; set the exposure so the white water is not burned in the viewfinder.
• Faster speeds work too; the water still turns smooth because hundreds of frames are combined.
• In dark scenes the app offers Night Town instead.

Night Sky

A dark night sky with stars, on the 1× and 0.5× cameras. Aim at the sky, without lit buildings, street lamps or other bright objects; a note on the screen reminds you until you press the shutter. The app chooses the values: 1 second frames at the widest aperture, with the ISO the sky needs, for 20 seconds on 1× and 30 seconds on 0.5× (with a stronger noise reduction there). Stars stay bright points, the sky goes from deep blue to black and trees keep their colour.

• Best far from city lights, on a clear night.
• Lit buildings or lamps in the picture may come out too bright; for the city at night use Night Town.

Night Town

The city at night, fully manual, on the 0.5×, 1× and 4× cameras. The app takes frames with exactly your values for about 10 seconds and at least 20 frames (with 1 second frames that is 20 seconds). Lights of passing cars draw trails. The photo is made one stop darker in the dark and middle tones while the lights stay bright, and the colours of walls and streets are brought back from the orange of street lamps, with a light noise reduction.

• For car light trails try 1/2 to 1 second at ISO 400 to 1600.
• With fast shutter speeds the app fills the gaps between frames along the way each light moved, so trails stay continuous.
• In daylight the app offers Waterfalls instead.

Recent shots and Photo Info

• Tap the thumbnail at the bottom left to see your recent shots inside the app. Swipe to move between them, swipe down to close.
• Photo Info (i): the values you set next to the values written in the file, the lens, the format and, for slow modes, the frames that were combined.
• Save again: the app keeps a full-quality copy of your last 30 shots (up to 1 GB) and can save a shot to Photos again, once per shot.
• Delete: the trash button removes this shot, or all shots, from the app. The photos in your Photos library are never touched.

RAW and ProRAW

• RAW (DNG) keeps the untouched sensor data. It needs the full sensor, so it is always 4:3 and is not offered on the 2× and 8× buttons or in the slow modes. A RAW file opens darker than HEIF or JPEG because it has no processing; with manual exposure the viewfinder is darkened by about that much so you see how the RAW will open.
• ProRAW (DNG, lossless) works on every lens button: full resolution with automatic exposure, a single 12 MP frame with manual exposure so your values stay exact.

Processing and noise reduction

Real ProCam adds no filters and no effects. In MANUAL the photo is one frame with minimal processing; on 8× a light noise reduction is added. In VISUAL and AUTO the iPhone's own processing is used, and in AUTO on 4× and 8× the app adds a stronger noise reduction. The slow modes combine many frames and add the finishing described above for each mode. The values written in every file are the real ones.

Supported iPhones

• Every iPhone that runs iOS 27 or later.
• Manual aperture: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max (variable-aperture main camera).
• 8×: iPhone 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max.
• iPhone Duo: the app runs full screen on the inner display.

Still need help?

Write to [email protected]. Screenshots of the problem and the Photo Info of the shot help a lot.