Image: Apple Adobe's Project Indigo, a powerful camera app for iPhone, is finally available for the iPhone 17. Despite Apple releasing the iPhone 17 over a month ago, Project Indigo wasn't previously compatible with the new phone, reportedly due to the front-facing camera.
A post on Adobe's forum on October 16, as reported by The Verge, shared that the company had issues when developing support for the new iPhone 17 series of phones. "We have run into some issues, especially with the front camera," the post from product manager Boris Ajdin said. "Some of them we flagged to Apple, who have made a fix and will ship it with iOS 26. 1. Sadly, that means we need to consider disabling the front camera in Indigo until that version of iOS is shipped. "
A screenshot of the App Store update on the Project Indigo page.
For context, the iPhone 17's front camera uses a square multi-aspect ratio sensor, which isn't typical for smartphone cameras. The square sensor allows users to capture landscape or portrait photos and videos without rotating the phone. However, it also apparently complicates things for camera app developers, at least in the case of Adobe's app.
It appears that Adobe has now solved some of those issues. Over the weekend, Adobe's Chris Welch shared on Threads that Project Indigo is now ready for the iPhone 17. Welch shared a screenshot of the App Store listing, which says it required lots of "grinding, sanding, welding and polishing. "
While the app is functional on iPhone 17s now, the selfie camera is currently disabled. The App Store description for Project Indigo says that front camera support for 17-series devices will be added in the next version of the app, which will come after Apple publicly releases iOS 26. 1.
. dpreview.com2025-10-29 19:59
