If you are a proud owner of a new iPhone XS, Max, or soon to be iPhone XR owner, you might check your video camera’s settings. 

The camera on the new phones are some of the best cameras on a phone ever, and the video camera is the top cell phone camera ever. It’s capable of shooting 4K video at up to 60 frames per second  which is something only most dedicated cameras are capable of. 

While you’re more than welcome to shoot your video at 4K 60fps, and you’ll get a great shot, if you lower the frames per second to 30 or 23 fps, the phone will do some computational photography trickery. 

the higher the frame rate, the smoother the picture. The drawback to that is the file size starts to balloon. In the photo settings, it tells you about how large a 1 minute video will end up being. Shooting at 4K 60fps produces a smooth picture with a great image. 

If you drop the frame rate down, you will get an option in the settings to allow auto-low light. The phone continues to shoot in 60 frames, but instead of collecting all those frames into the video it uses some behind the scenes stuff to make a richer video. This especially helps in low light, hence, the option. 

This is similar to how the phone takes photos. It actually takes many photos at different exposure levels and stitches it together into one great one. Shooting in 30 frames, the camera does the same thing. It takes frames at different exposure levels and stitches it together. 

Unless you really need 60 frames per second, which might be for sports or something you might want to slow down later, you might try shooting at 4k 30FPS. If you are shootijg something you might want to slow down later, I’d suggest using the slow-mo option anyway. You’ll get way more frames per second. 

Dropping down to 30FPS will not only enhance your videos, it will also save you space on your device.