The phone's portrait mode simulates a bokeh blur effect.
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Photography jargon for out-of-focus blur — the 'bokeh' effect. Often said as 背景虚化 (background blur). Linguistically 虚化 also has a separate meaning in linguistics ('grammaticalization'), but that's a niche technical sense.
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虚 means 'empty/unreal' and 化 means '-ify/to turn into.' So 虚化 literally means 'to make (something) unreal/hazy' — a perfect description of defocused blur.
