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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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