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Your photo as a 2010 phone picture

Pick a photo and 2010. Erafy makes a new picture from the year the phone began to replace the pocket camera: soft, a little noisy, and often cropped square and filtered before anyone saw it.

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2010 phone photo with a heavy vignette: a woman sitting by a city waterfront

Nobody in the examples is a real person — the before photos are invented faces. These are our best results, not average ones. Sometimes AI can't handle it and modifies your face. All we can offer is a try.

How photos looked in 2010

In 2010 the pocket compact still took most photos, but the year's new 5-megapixel phones were good enough in daylight to start replacing it. A phone camera had no stabilisation and no clever processing: soft detail, a slightly cool and faintly green cast, a sky blown to white in sun, and in a dim room noise, blur, and a single cool-white flash that lit a face hard against a black background.

October 2010 brought the photo-sharing app that locked every picture to a square of about 612 pixels and laid a filter over it: a cross-processed look with a golden cast and dark burnt corners, or a faded sepia wash with a soft vignette. A toy-camera app added fake light leaks and a print border. For a growing share of snapshots, nobody saw the plain photo.

There were almost no selfies: the front camera was a 0.3-megapixel unit meant for video calls. The compact, with its real optical zoom, gave a flatter, ungraded file that mostly stayed on the memory card, unshared.

Erafy picks a device from the year at random. With Situation on it might set the scene at a farmers market, a barn wedding or a pumpkin patch. The film years end at 2000; the next phone year is 2013.

More from 2010

  • 2010 · two seconds, silent

Other years

  • Sepia 1900 portrait of a woman in a high-collared blouse on a city street with horse carriages
    1900Early roll film, black and white
  • 1910 early colour photograph of a woman in a lace blouse seated at a garden table
    1910Glass plates, film packs and early colour plates
  • Black-and-white 1920s street portrait of a woman in a pale dress and a long pearl necklace
    1920Orthochromatic black and white
  • Sepia 1930s street photo of a woman in a floral dress holding a handbag
    1930Roll-film snapshots
  • Black-and-white 1940s street portrait of a woman in a tailored jacket
    1940Wartime black and white
  • Black-and-white 1950s street portrait of a woman in a cardigan and plaid skirt
    1950Black and white, and the first colour
  • Black-and-white 1960s street photo of a woman in a gingham sundress beside parked cars
    1960Colour slides and black and white
  • Faded 1970s colour photo of a woman in a floral blouse on a sunny street
    1970Warm, faded colour film
  • 1980s colour snapshot of a woman in a striped sweater in a bedroom with posters and a TV
    198035 mm colour, pocket cameras, flash
  • 1990s colour film photo of a woman in a green sweater and jeans on a campus street
    1990Drugstore colour film and disposables
  • 2000 colour snapshot with a date stamp: a woman in a lilac T-shirt on a campus walkway
    2000Date stamps and the first digital cameras
  • 2013 filtered phone selfie of a woman by a stone arch in a city park
    2013Retro filter apps
  • 2016 phone photo of a woman at a café table with a latte
    2016Phone portrait mode
  • 2019 phone photo of a woman on a beach at sunset
    2019Night mode and ultrawide
  • 2022 phone photo of a woman at a café with a latte
    2022The modern phone camera
  • 2025 phone photo of a woman at a café table with latte art
    2025Today's phones

Questions

Why is a 2010 picture square with faded colours?

Because of the photo-sharing app that launched in October 2010. It cropped every photo to a 1:1 square of about 612 pixels and offered a row of filters that lifted the blacks, tinted the colour and darkened the corners. Those squares were shared far more than the plain photos behind them, so Erafy's 2010 looks include them.

Were there selfies in 2010?

Hardly any. Front cameras were 0.3-megapixel units made for video calls, so a self-portrait meant holding the phone out and guessing. With Situation off, Erafy keeps your photo's own framing instead.

What would I look like in 2010?

Erafy makes a new picture from your photo in the style of the year you pick, so how much it resembles you varies from one go to the next. It varies most in the black-and-white years and in the crafts before 1900, where faces are drawn in the craft's style. We make no promise about how any result will look.

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