iY2K

Miss the character you used to get from older iPhone photos?
Bring a second old phone on trips just for the camera?
Tried an ‘old iPhone look’ app, only to be disappointed because it looked nothing like the real thing?

iY2K was built differently. We bought a range of real older iPhone models and directly compared thousands of shots. This is not a filter made by guessing at the mood. We studied the noise, bloom, color and sharpness that gave each camera its character, then carefully rebuilt those details.

We kept the character and eased off the drawbacks.
Harsh bloom and excessive noise are toned down, while the parts people love about older cameras stay. You can also bring in photos you have already taken and apply the old-phone look later.

There is no need to buy and carry another phone just for its camera. iY2K puts twenty-eight looks — old phones, compact digitals, film and single-use cameras — in one app.

What’s inside

• Twenty-eight looks — old phones, compact digitals, film and single-use cameras
• Forty-seven composition guides — People, Landscape, Café and Top-Down. Line up with the outline on screen, get live directions on where to move the phone, and lay an example photo over the viewfinder
• Light Bleed for selfies — the soft, blown-out glow old iPhone selfies had, on only when you want it
• Photos, video and Live Photos
• Ten single-use cameras — seven cardboard bodies, four in colour (two of them waterproof) and three in black-and-white, plus three instant-film looks (a box body, a folding SLR and a current model)
• See the look live in the viewfinder before you shoot
• Apply it to photos and videos already in your library, several photos at once
• Sensitivity and strength controls for every look
• 0.5×, 1× and 2× lenses, plus the front camera
• A 3-second and a 10-second timer
• Grid, five aspect ratios and optional frames
• An album that gathers what you shot with iY2K, day by day

There are no in-app purchases. All twenty-eight looks, the ten single-use cameras included, come with the price of the app, and there is no subscription. Shoot the single-use cameras as much as you like — there is no frame limit. An instant frame is saved as a square photograph inside a white instant-print border.

Shooting and editing are processed on your device, with no account or in-app ads. Only with your tracking permission, the Meta SDK sends device identifiers and app activation events to measure advertising performance. Declining does not affect any feature. Photos and capture locations are not sent to Meta. See our privacy policy for details.

iY2K is an independently developed look-emulation app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any device, camera or film manufacturer. All preset names are our own.

Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://imagination5671.github.io/iy2k-support/privacy.html

iY2K just got a major update.

• Fixed the live preview lagging behind your movement and videos looking choppy. The preview now runs at 30 frames per second indoors too.
• Fixed a crash when switching to the selfie camera on iPhone 13 and earlier.
• The selfie update we promised is here. We re-tuned selfie color, brightness and skin texture for every old-phone look, side by side with selfies from the real phones. Dim rooms and backlit shots changed the most.
• All ten single-use cameras are now free. The app no longer has in-app purchases, and there is no frame limit.
• Composition guides are new. Pick one of 47 — People, Landscape, Café or Top-Down — and an outline appears on screen while the app tells you live which way to move the phone. You can also lay an example photo over the viewfinder and copy it.
• A new Light Bleed button for selfies. Turn it on when you want the soft, blown-out glow of an old iPhone selfie.
• Added a timer (3 or 10 seconds).
• Added an album: everything you shot with iY2K, day by day.
• Selfie flash now works with every camera.
• Added a “Default” camera with no filter — handy when you only want the composition guides.
• Videos from your library can now get a look too, and Batch Edit lets you choose a different camera for each photo.
• Photos save faster after you shoot, with less stutter when you take several in a row.
• Turn the phone sideways and the photo is saved in landscape. Aspect ratios are now Default, 1:1, 3:4, 4:5 and 9:16.
• Fixed a rare white square appearing in a saved photo.
• On iOS 26, the buttons take on the new glass design.