On September 20, 2019, Apple released the iPhone 11 Pro, featuring a triple-camera system with wide, ultra-wide, and telephoto lenses — along with Night mode, Deep Fusion, and Smart HDR powered by the A13 Bionic chip's neural engine. The iPhone was no longer just a phone with a camera; it was a computational photography system where machine learning processed every pixel. Night mode could capture detailed images in near darkness, and Deep Fusion analyzed multiple exposures at the pixel level. The iPhone 11 Pro made professional-quality photography accessible to everyone and accelerated the decline of point-and-shoot cameras. Photography had become as much about silicon and software as about optics.
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