Like the full-screen iPhones before and after it ... On the outside, other than the size of the iPhone XS Max, that looks to be true — there aren't a lot of big design changes.

OS 19 will not be available on the iPhone XR, iPhone XS, or the iPhone XS Max, according a private account on social media ...

The result is a loss of detail that looks like smoothing on the front camera. In other words, yes skin smoothing was a real phenomenon, but it was unintentional and only applied in certain situations.