I don’t understand why people seem to „want“ this to be real. It obviously isn’t. The effect cannot be explained by rolling shutter and therefore would involve

I don’t understand why people seem to „want“ this to be real. It obviously isn’t. The effect cannot be explained by rolling shutter and therefore would involve actively stitching together multiple shots. This would be huge feature that Apple would advertise (take a family photo and you get a version where everyone smiles). Apple does not a/b test stuff like that without telling users, that’s just not the way their hype machine department works.