OnePlus to temporarily disable ‘X-ray’ camera filter in phones sold in China
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OnePlus will temporarily disable a camera filter on the OnePlus 8 Pro in its Chinese operating system after users discovered they could use it to see through certain plastics and clothes. Although the company has stressed that the “Photochrom” filter cannot see through thick materials, it apologized for “creating privacy concerns and causing troubles for OnePlus users and other netizens,” Abacus News reports. OnePlus initially announced the move in a statement on its Weibo page.
A subsequent forum post published on OnePlus’s English-language forum confirmed that it will only disable the feature in HydrogenOS, the operating system its phones use in China. In a statement, the company says it is working on an update to enable the Photochrom…
