iPhone 12 not taking HDR Photos

I have just bought the iPhone 12 and the HDR is not working with photos, but it works on video. The 'HDR' is showing on screen when taking a photo, but when I review the photo the HDR is not showing on the top left above the image and they are definitely not HDR.


I just upgraded to the latest software (14.2) hoping that would fix it but no. All my photos indoors are lo-res, underexposed and grainy. HDR is just not working.


This was a similar issue with the iPhone X years ago but a software upgrade seemed to fix the issue. Anyone know something I could try to fix it?

Posted on Nov 10, 2020 8:41 PM

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Mar 2, 2021 8:42 AM in response to ZAVWizzard

I'm not sure if a moderator stripped your link above, but in case you need the share instructions, you would go to your camera roll, select a couple of pictures, press the share button, then scroll down to "copy icloud link". Before doing the last step though, there's an options button in the top left you'll see, you may want to unselect "share location"

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