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title: "Custom Photo Filters on iPhone: Save Your Edits as a Filter"
description: "Got a look you like? Save your adjustments as a named filter in PicWay, then use it on other photos and videos with one tap."
url: "https://picway.app/custom-photo-filters/"
lang: "en"
type: "feature"
updated: "2026-11-01"
published: "2026-11-01"
---

# Custom Photo Filters on iPhone: Save Your Edits as a Filter

URL: https://picway.app/custom-photo-filters/
Markdown: https://picway.app/custom-photo-filters/index.md
Last updated: 2026-11-01

To make a custom photo filter on iPhone, edit a photo in PicWay until you like the colors, then tap Save filter and give it a name. It shows up under Custom filters in the Filters strip, and one tap applies it to another photo, Live Photo, or video. A filter keeps your color settings (light, color, a built-in filter and its strength, and grain), not crops or markup.

## Your look, saved as a filter. {#top}

Edit once, name it, and use it again with one tap.

## How do I make my own filter? {#how}

- **1. Edit**: Open a photo in PicWay, tap Edit, and adjust it until the colors feel right.
- **2. Save filter**: Tap Save filter and give it a name, up to 40 characters.
- **3. Use it anywhere**: Next time, open Filters. Your filter is under Custom filters, right after Recent. Tap it.

## What does a custom filter save? {#what}

Your color settings. Not the crop, the markup, or the frame, so a filter fits any photo.

- **Light and color**: Exposure, Brilliance, Highlights, Shadows, Contrast, Brightness, Black Point, Saturation, Vibrance, Warmth, Tint, and more.
- **A built-in filter and its strength**: If you picked one of PicWay’s filters and dialed it back, that’s saved too.
- **Grain**: A touch of film grain comes along with the rest.

## Can’t the iPhone Photos app do this already? {#photos-app}

Partly. In Apple’s iPhone User Guide, you copy the edits from one photo and paste them onto others. The guide doesn’t describe saving a look as a named filter to use later. PicWay keeps it in your filter list.

- **Tap again, same result**: Applying a filter sets the colors to what you saved. Tapping it twice doesn’t stack the effect.
- **Undo is one tap**: Changed your mind? Undo brings back the colors you had before.
- **Rename or delete**: Touch and hold a filter to rename or delete it. Photos you already saved don’t change.

## Custom filters at a glance {#specs}