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To others who might be curious, the iPhone 12 now supports raw photo mode. Older models do not natively have this.

Nope, previous iPhones also supported RAW photos (my iPhone Xs does).

Natively? I just researched and it sounds like only iPhone 12 can take raw photos w/o a 3rd party camera app.

No, not natively in the sense the built-in Camera app can do it, but that's not what the comment was saying.

I'm pretty sure the 6s was the first iPhone to support RAW.