Adobe’s much-anticipated and most-awaited Project Indigo has reportedly been delayed due to various technical complications that have been linked to Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 camera system.
Originally,, was expected to debut alongside new creative tools powered by AI, but the delay marks a setback for all the Adobe’s innovation roadmap and its strategic collaboration that would have taken place with Apple’s advanced imaging hardware.
Sources also indicate that the upcoming Project Indigo’s performance depends heavily and majorly on the iPhone 17’s enhanced camera sensors and image-processing framework. But recently, both of them have currently facing production challenges.
These issues reportedly have come up from the supply chain constraints and even various calibration inconsistencies that have been noticed in the new lens module.
This has been the reason for forcing both companies to push back the process of integration testing and also the software optimisation phases.
Adobe’s Project Indigo was readily designed to bring AI-powered image editing, real-time rendering, and even the immersive design tools to the various mobile creators, leveraging th capabilities of Apple’s hardware ecosystem.
The project has been launched with the aim of seamlessly integrating Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite with iPhone cameras for the feature of professional-grade mobile content creation.
However, the camera hardware delays have been something that disrupted the expected synchronisation between Adobe’s famous software and Apple’s next-generation devices.
Industry analysts believe that this postponement could slightly affect all future Adobe product launch timelines but will not hinder the company’s long-term AI strategy.


