Pakistan, Dec. 29 -- Search giant Google has withdrawn its newly introduced portrait-related setting for the Pixel phones' Phone app, which was designed to give users more control over portrait effects during video and voice calls. Initially, the feature aimed to enhance user experience through software updates rather than hardware changes, extending computational photography and AI-driven camera capabilities into calling functions.

The portrait setting was scheduled for a gradual server-side rollout to Pixel devices, allowing users to activate or deactivate portrait processing during calls instead of relying solely on automatic effects. By bringing portrait enhancements from photography and video into calls, Google intended to improve v...