An obscure new feature gives you more camera framing control.
One of the previous advantages of third-party virtual camera apps (like Camo from Reincubate) over a built-in or add-on webcam used with your Mac is that they let you use an iPhone as a webcam for FaceTime, Zoom, and other videoconferencing apps. Apple changed that equation by adding Continuity Camera, which lets your iPhone appear as another video input to any app on your Mac.
But there was still a virtual camera advantage: Continuity Camera showed you framed in the view of your phone’s Ultra Wide camera or followed you around with Center Stage. But you couldn’t get the advantage of a place between those options: zooming in or out and panning within the frame.
Apple added that feature quietly in a way that’s hard to discover in macOS Sonoma. Sonoma raised the profile of the video menu from Ventura and previous macOS releases. Before Sonoma, you used a combination of options in the Control Center, in a simplified video app, and in individual apps to control Continuity Camera features, like Center Stage, Portrait, and Studio Light, as well as microphone modes.
