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RAW, every time. Settings → Save as chooses RAW (Bayer RAW, the default) or ProRAW (Apple ProRAW, on cameras that support it). Both are saved as DNG files.

With a preset on, RawCam also saves a copy with the preset, as its own photo next to the RAW, so Photos shows both. Settings → Copies chooses JPEG (the default) or HEIC for that copy and for copies you save after editing; HEIC is about half the size. Saving an edit adds a separate new copy.

RawCam 2 keeps the RAW for every photo, so any capture can be edited again later. For a ready-to-share JPEG, turn on a preset before you shoot, or edit the photo and save a copy. Settings from earlier versions moved over: JPEG, JPEG + RAW and From RAW became RAW, and ProRAW stayed ProRAW.

DNG (Digital Negative) is a RAW container. Bayer RAW keeps the sensor data for you to develop. Apple ProRAW combines Apple’s image processing with RAW editing flexibility. A viewer has to develop a DNG to show it, so different apps can show different tones and colours. The DNG stays the source for editing.

Tap Presets on the camera. A strip opens with None, the five presets that come with RawCam (Daybreak, Sunday, Noche, Reel and Silver), then yours, newest first, and Import preset. Tap a preset and the viewfinder shows it live. Tap the selected preset again for Strength, Grain, Halation and Softness. Those changes apply to new photos; to keep them, touch and hold the preset and choose Save as preset. Switching to another preset asks whether to discard them, and touching and holding Presets resets them. RawCam remembers your choice.

Your presets are the edits you save as presets, while editing or from the Roll, and the .cube files you import. A saved preset brings its whole edit (color, texture and adjustments): the viewfinder shows it, new photos are saved with it, and editing opens them with it applied.

Touch and hold a preset to rename, duplicate or delete it. RawCam’s own can only be duplicated; the copy is yours. Exposure brackets save without the preset. If a preset can’t be applied, the RAW saves without it and RawCam tells you.

Yes. Tap Import preset at the end of the presets strip and choose 3D .cube files (LUTs) from Files. Each becomes one of your presets, on the camera and when you edit.

Open a photo in the Roll and tap Edit, or tap + in the Roll to import one: your photo library opens, and Files at the top opens Files instead (RAW, JPEG, HEIC or PNG). A photo you took with RawCam opens as itself rather than as a copy.

• Presets: RawCam’s and yours, with Strength, Grain, Halation and Softness.
• Adjustments: exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, warmth, tint, saturation, vibrance and sharpening.
• Crop: aspect, rotate, flip and straighten.

The bookmark lists every preset and saves the current edit as a new one. The top bar has Cancel, undo and redo, presets, Save to Photos and Done. Done keeps your changes in RawCam, and so does swiping the photo down; Cancel asks before discarding changes made since the photo opened. Touch and hold the photo to compare with the original. Tap Save to Photos to add a new copy (JPEG or HEIC, set in Settings → Copies) to Photos.

In the Roll, touch and hold an edited photo to Copy edits, Save as preset or Revert to original, then touch and hold another photo to Paste edits. To paste onto several, tap Select, choose them and tap Paste edits. Each photo keeps its own crop.

Edits are kept, so the next Edit continues where you left off. A photo you import joins the Roll: RawCam keeps its own copy, with your edits, until you delete it there. The photo in your library or Files isn’t changed. Settings → Editing → Delete all edits clears every kept edit; imported photos stay on the Roll, without their edits.

No. Editing never changes the RAW or anything else in Photos. Save always adds a new copy. Settings → Editing sets the saved copy’s size; Settings → Save location decides whether it keeps the photo’s location (off unless you turn it on).

Turn on Settings → Save location. It’s off by default. When it’s on and RawCam has a recent fix, new photos carry their coordinates in the file, in Photos and in the Roll; otherwise the photo saves without location. The same switch decides whether copies you save after editing keep it. Tap the saved coordinates in Details to see them on a map.

Tap the shutter or press a volume button to take a photo. The shutter is ready again as soon as the photo is taken: “Saving” turns to “Saved”, the photo shows on the stack, and saving to Photos finishes in the background (with a preset, a couple of seconds later). The bottom row, left to right: the Roll (your latest photo), the shutter, Settings and Presets. The top bar has the timer, grid, zebra and flash. Tap the viewfinder to focus there, touch and hold to lock focus, and drag near the focus point to make the photo brighter or darker.

The row below the viewfinder shows EV, Shutter, ISO, WB and Lens. Tap one to change it.

• Setting ISO or shutter fixes both. Double-tap either ruler, or its orange value under the viewfinder, to return both to Auto.
• Changing EV returns ISO and shutter to Auto. Double-tap the EV ruler, or its value, to go back to 0. White balance returns to Auto the same way.
• White balance has five presets: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten and Fluorescent.
• Tap Lens or pinch the viewfinder to change lenses. If a lens can’t capture the RAW type you chose, RawCam says so instead of saving something else.

Settings → Exposure bracket takes three Bayer RAW photos at different exposures with one press; it works with automatic ISO and shutter. RawCam also includes an App Shortcut named Open Camera for Shortcuts, Siri, Spotlight and the Action Button.

Tap the photo stack on the camera to see your latest photo, and the grid button beside Close for the Roll. The Roll shows the photos you took or imported in RawCam, not your whole library. Pinch or double tap to zoom, swipe to move between photos (the newest is at the right; swipe right for older ones), and tap Details for a photo’s settings and file size. Export sends a file to the share sheet: JPEG (the preset’s JPEG, when the photo has one), RAW (DNG) untouched, the edited copy when you’ve edited it, or an import’s Original.

Opening the Roll asks for Photos access; limited access works. If a photo isn’t available, its saved preview stays in the Roll. Originals stored only in iCloud need a connection to load.

Tap Delete in the viewer, or tap Select in the Roll to delete several. For photos you took, iOS asks you to confirm, then they go to Recently Deleted in Photos. For an imported photo, RawCam asks first and removes only its own copy. With full Photos access, photos you delete in the Photos app leave the Roll too.

The camera and the RAW format. Bayer RAW is about 12 MP, the limit for third-party camera apps. ProRAW saves at the camera’s full size, up to 48 MP on cameras that have it, and includes Apple’s processing. There’s no resolution selector.

A RAW file isn’t finished: each app develops it its own way, and Bayer RAW skips the strong tone and detail processing the Camera app adds. Bayer RAW can also show more noise in low light. Adjust exposure while shooting, pick a preset, or edit the photo. Clipped highlights can’t be recovered just by saving RAW.

RawCam 2 uses the rear cameras only, and takes photos only. Videos recorded with earlier versions stay in Photos; the Roll shows their saved preview, so play them in Photos.

Right in your library. Since 2.0.1, with a preset on, the DNG and the copy with the preset are two photos side by side; without a preset, Photos shows the DNG alone. Photos taken with a preset in 2.0.0 keep the DNG inside the same Photos item as the JPEG, as its original; Export → RAW (DNG) in the Roll still gets it. If nothing saved, check that RawCam can add to your library: Settings app → Privacy & Security → Photos → RawCam.

RawCam doesn’t collect anything, and presets and edits are applied on your phone. See the privacy policy.

Include what you were trying to do, what happened instead, your iPhone model, your iOS version, and a screenshot if one helps.