Low light photos on iPhone XS

Coming from a Pixel and now on a XS Max, I'm very disappointed. I'm seeing the same things, and I'm not thrilled. I'm no stranger to phone photography. I know about ISO and aperture and lighting. This is just bad processing.

Using a third party camera app helps a little bit, but that shouldn't be necessary on a $1000+ flagship smartphone.

Hey,

It is normal for your photos you took on the iPhone XS to be a bit grainy in low light conditions, especially when using the zoom functions.

Can you provide us with an example?

iPhone takes Portrait shots with a Telephoto lens which aperture ƒ/2.4, a Wide-angle lens is 1.8 aperture.

The bigger the number the worse lens behaves in low-light situations, this is why a Portrait shot is grainy.