iPhone 11 Pro Max Camera issues

To the two guys going if at everyone that they don’t know how to take a photo and bombarding the topic hundred times with “the phone is fine!”. Stop. You are spreading misinformation and are disingenuous. First of all, I own a pretty good DSLR myself, and do dabble in photography quite a lot and believe me, I know how to take a photo. There is an obvious problem with the camera quality on iPhone 11 (all models). Even the photos one of you posted after getting his 11 were bad even though you said they are fantastic. No, they lacked sharpness and detail level of what even iPhone 7 Plus was capable of. I compared my photos from 7 Plus to what my 11 Pro captures and it’s absurd how bad the new ones are. They is way too much over processing done on them to begin with and then to top it off, Apple took away your liberty to decide what setting you want to use. Did you know that if the light conditions are slightly lower than ideal and you try to use a 2x lens, the phone will automatically switch back to 1x (without telling you - you’ll still see 2x selected) and then crop the picture so it APPEARS as being the 2x? On top of that even if you manually disable the night mode, IT STILL DOES THE SAME THING, effectively using digital zoom (you can check this by selecting 2x, pointing the camera at a bright spot and the slowly shifting it towards a spot with low light conditions, at some point you’ll see the night mode icon appear and the perspective shift a little - that’s when it switches the lens automatically, and don’t tell me this isn’t true because it is, if night mode enables, it means the phone is now using 1x camera because only 1x can use night mode). Just one case of when not being able to control the camera results in a terrible picture, and there is plenty more, on top of the camera just being poor quality and all the software issues and over-processing. Apple has failed miserably with the camera on iPhone 11 and that’s the truth.

I'm sorry you are having so much trouble. I am looking at my office wall, which has 11x14 photos hanging on it that were taken with my iPhone 11 Pro Max. They are nothing short of gorgeous and I get compliments on them all the time. I advise reaching out to Apple for help.

You may want to make arrangements to have your phone inspected, as unless there has been a failure photo quality has not changed.

I never said you needed to take lessons, but short of a procedural error I am not sure what could be causing your issue.

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It actually isn't, you can shut off night mode easily.

To turn off Night mode, tap on the moon icon at the top of the Camera app interface.

Slide the Night mode slider all the way to the left to turn night mode off.

It will automatically be enabled on each photo, but you can shut it off on a per-photo basis.

Try what I stated earlier and see if there is a difference. If not, just return or exchange your guy.

I have this same issue. I did a reset via iTunes and had my phone replaced and neither solved it. It definitely looks like a software problem and not hardware.

They are all 12 megapixel cameras. You should show your camera to Apple.

Go into setting, then control centre, then customise controls and then add night mode

Lens flare is due to not technique, not a defect.

If you don’t like it and it has been less than 14 days, you can return your phone for a refund.

This photos ate worst mu samsung note 2, I will take it to apple I didn’t gave 1000€ for this, very poor quality what a bad phone

No, sorry if it came through like that, just wanted to +1 myself on the topic in case someone from Apple sees this. German Genius bar will just check if there’s obvious physical damage, otherwise blame it on software (they seriously have no time to meet the demand otherwise). I’ve cropped the part I’ve meant was blurry/bad looking (not zoomed in, although it seems so).. its both crisp and blurry at the same time so it’s probably software. Let’s wait for the iOS 13.1 ;)

"The representative was like yes the ones in the store for customers to see are made special"

I find this hard to believe. What would be "special" about them? I also think this would be illegal and it would not make any sense for a company which sells hundreds of millions of these over the next year.

I don't doubt that you are having problems. But I do not think this issue is as widespread as you are all making it sound. There are only a handful of people in this forum who have reported the issue and Apple has delivered millions of these phone since Friday.

Everyone should absolutely install iOS 13.1 which was released today. Maybe that will solve the camera issues.

For the chicken photo, it's depth of field.

The new main lens has an aperture of just f1.8 - so it's more light sensitive, but focus will also drop off more rapidly away from whatever is the main focus point.

Instead of continually posting photos you think aren't what you expected, just take your phone to Apple and show them. There's nothing anyone here can do for you. Proving your point to a bunch of users doesn't help you either.

Yet again, you've posted photo where I suspect the camera thinks the light post is the major subject in the photo and I honestly don't think there's a thing wrong with the photo. I think the photographer isn't using the best subjects to prove his point.

Got the exact same problem here. Went back to the Apple store on launch day and they gave me a new one... but problem still here. This is what I found:

• problem happens with low light.
• selfiepicture is ‘ok’, but switching to selfievideo is terrible (you can’t see your own face)
• switching to 720 p/30fps helps... but this is not why you buy a 1000 dollar iphone.
• you’re not the only one