Hi, it’s Jacob here, and in this short QuickTip, I’m going to show you a really fun new way to view your photos on your iPhone. It’s called Spatial Photo, and basically, it turns any photo 3D.

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Right, here we go. To use the new Spatial Photos, all I need to do is find a photo that has a clear foreground and background. If it’s a really flat image, this isn’t going to work so well.

Here I’ve got a photo — just happens to be of me at Apple Park a few weeks ago, fulfilling one of my lifetime dreams and ambitions. No big deal at all!

I can view this as a regular photo, like I’m doing now, or with the new Spatial 3D mode — which is the little button in the top right corner here — it will process the image. When I tilt or turn my phone, it creates this really cool 3D parallax effect.

It’s probably tricky to see clearly on video, but hopefully you can tell here that I’m tilting my phone and the image appears 3D. The effect really is impressive — it even fills in the bits behind the subject to make sure there aren’t any weird gaps.

Let’s jump back from this picture and try another very quickly. Again, I press that icon in the top right-hand corner to enable the spatial scene. You’ll see it processes the image really quickly. And just like before, I’ve now got a 3D parallax version of my photo.

This is similar to what the Vision Pro does — but now it’s available on your iPhone with iOS 26.

And don’t worry about this ruining your original photograph — it’s only a temporary setting. When you leave the photo and come back to it later, the setting is off again by default. It re-creates the effect each time you choose to view it.

If you’d like to see what else is new in iOS 26, please do jump across to my channel. I’ll see you next time!