Turn down photo sharpening by the camera

So having just forked out for an 11 Pro because of the added camera functionality, I now discover that for any proper photography, the phone's camera is basically un-usable.

Brilliant.

Well done, Apple. Yet more of your nonsense forced upon the customer base.

Apple doesnt let developers turn off video/photo sharpening either. Even Apps like filmic pro cant turn sharpening off.. Its just apple.

Dear Apple, video/photo sharpening can be achieved in post. If someone uses 3rd party apps for Photos/Filmmaking, He intends to do post processing himself. So for god sake let the developers turn off artificial sharpening. It will be huge plus for iphone camera

Sharpening cannot be disabled, as far as I know. Not even by app developers, apparently. The Filmic app has a sharpening disable function for android phones but not for Apple. In their own tutorials they say Apple won’t allow disabling it. Very frustrating.

Halide shoots in raw without sharpening & makes a much better use of sharpening when "smart processing" (its equivalent of Live Photo) is employed. I'd recommend it to anyone who doesn't want all their photos to look like they've been processed by a five year old who got Photoshop for Christmas. Halide comes bundled with Spectre, an app that takes a timed exposure of somewhere that people are moving about & basically filters them out by building the exposure from the unchanging parts of the picture. Very clever &, although not always 100% successful, it gets remarkable results most of the time.

Apple doesn't care about post processing or the part of its user base who care about the end product beyond the instant. The whole thing is geared towards someone being able to take a picture that looks great at tiny sizes on some crap like Instagram.

I'm glad I bought my 512gb phone for music storage & not photography because the cameras are dog sh*t with the sharpening issue the way it is.