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Poor quality photos on iPhone 14 pro max

My bf has an iPhone 13 Pro Max & the photos are better than mine! It’s really frustrating considering how expensive the phone is & how it was raved on that it was better camera quality whens it’s worse than my old iPhone 11. Really is a shame all my photos are washed out & some blurry or grainy. I’ve tried everything in the settings & I don’t know how to fix this. Does anyone know? :)

iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 16

Posted on Jan 19, 2023 3:39 AM

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Posted on Aug 14, 2023 11:40 AM

Been using it for 6 months and can sadly agree. Some shots are good but most are not. I've been a DSLR photographer for 20 years so I know when colors are bad. What specifically annoys me is that the "photo" looks good before I take the shot. The colors are natural. I take the shot and it still looks good for a fraction of a second until the post processing kicks in and destroys it with too much sharpness, clarity and "HDR" or whatever it is. I can't put my finger on why it looks so bad. It's not just saturation and contrast because I can't even make it good by adjusting it. Usually change the clarity down to -50 which makes it better but it still does not fix the destroyed colors.


For a phone that costs a small fortune, it's not ok to not be able to at least turn off the bad post processing. This MUST be possible to fix by software.

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Feb 21, 2024 9:22 PM in response to Ashleyjade44

yea i was excited i take photos and its rare when they look great , even close ups looks way different than the final photo , from far its such a joke quality is that of an iphone 3gs terrible quality and they made it such a headache to make an appointment everything the apple a website trying to send me to a geeksquad why would i wanna go somewhere that isn't apple

Mar 1, 2024 6:05 PM in response to mariusmuntean

I think you will be so glad once you do Samsung is such a superior product in every way the only thing apple has is that the phone automatically turns on when it’s dead and your charging it! I’m telling you just being able to use ok google your whole world will get easier by leaving Apple! It’s done me NO favors except for turning on my dead phone.

Mar 14, 2024 10:56 PM in response to Ashleyjade44

I noticed the same thing as soon as I got my phone! I called multiple time and Apple said there was no problem with the phone! Absolutely ridiculous! My husband got the pro and the quality of his photos are way better than mine. Normally we don’t upgrade our phones within a year but we will this year. I am a photographer and not being able to use my iPhone for photos is the biggest waste of money I have spent.

Apr 22, 2024 11:36 AM in response to Ashleyjade44

its been terrible for me too. I’ve played around with settings but have had zero luck. My selfies are awful. The screen image is very nice but as soon as I take the picture the image immediately changes to a grayish color over the skin. All warmth and natural skin tone disappear. Both Skin and hair appear gray. I look aged by decades. I asked my friend’s 10year old to try it out they looked terrible in the selfie also. landscape pictures are pretty good. But definitely not a camera flattering for selfies.

Poor quality photos on iPhone 14 pro max

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