iPhone 12 Pro Max camera issues

Exactly what is happening to me as well. Was an iphone xr owner previously- best iphone Ive ever had. I just brought the 12 pro max home the other day and immediately noticed this glaring flaw in the first video I took. It was an outdoor overcast day. Problem: flickering areas, white balance changing constantly- warm, cold, warm, cold, warm. Just ugly and disappointing. Another problem Ive found right away was over-sharpening and high noise reduction applied to all photos with no way to disable even with pro raw mode. What in the world Apple? Anybody found a fix?

anyone facing this issue? I have an iphone pro max and when I take a picture my iphone forces an edit on it. Adding sharpness and contrast. It makes pictures dusty and ugly. Does anyone know how I can disable this. I tried everything.

pic: left is a screenshot of the pic before iphone puts the automatic edit on it.

right: the ugly iphone automatic edit

Solution guys,

Settings - Camera - Automatic fps OFF.

that should solve it.

the flickering you all are experiencing is caused by the software automatically trying to lower the fps (when recording in 60fps) in low light situations, which should lead to a more stable video. Clearly not the case. So just turn the automatic fps off, so that even when recording inside, your video will keep recording at the chosen frame rate.

I have had my camera freeze constantly over the last few days. I have only really used the camera over the last weak as I am on holidays and it is very annoying. I spoke to Apple who have me a link to fix which just suggested I restart the phone. What’s the go then ???

I’ve had this same issue a couple times for a an hour or so, closing all apps and restarting after each time, the first time it worked, the second time it kept doing it after the restart for an extra hour until it eventually stopped.

12 Pro user. Just happened last night during NYE. I recorded multiple photos having loud background noise on it. To my surprise, none of them got recorded. I was able to recover one video but the sounds were off - as in no sounds at all. Is it just me or anyone have encountered this already? Thank you!

If you adjust the exposure and other parameters in the Camera app you can get the same results.

More to the point, this shows there's nothing wrong with the camera itself, rather it's a difference in preference between the two apps.

For example, the Halide photo looks far too cold to me in terms of color balance.

ive been having a problem with my iPhone camera randomly closing and for some reason it will continually do it until I completely restart my phone and power it on . It does it with every app that has a camera as well.

Same here.... I have little green dots sometimes and it’s constantly flickering. Also, it seems to take a while to switch between different camera, vide , portrait etc. easily 1 sec for the camera to come up from the Lock Screen. So frustrating. I paid last bill early from XR to get 12 pro max.. should’ve stayed with it🤦‍♂️🤬

That is something I don’t get , I own pro max 512 go and can’t get the camera to focus- but when I took another pro max 256/128 the camera managed to get focus ( after 10 seconds)

tried few pro max 512 and nothing .

im sure this is not supposed to be like that

So it’s a long story, I contacted apple service in my country- they took my iPhone and called me , saying my iPhone is ok and this is supposed to be like that , so I told them that this is unacceptable and I made a video to confirm

sent it to them - and nothing

my iPhone is sitting in there lab for more than 10 days ,

and I’m supposed to wait

go figure

I had to fight with them for more than 25 days

my iPhone was at third lab and they argued with me that this is how it’s supposed to be ( nonsense)

aftet 25 days they agreed to replace my iPhone .

so I lost 1 month of warranty.

go figure

Yup! I’m having the same problem. Each update I do, I hope it fixes it but it hasn’t. It’s very frustrating.. I feel like I should’ve stayed with the paid off XR. I’m not sure if it’s just the software or is my phone having a legitimate issue???🤬🤦‍♂️

I have updated my iPhone 12 Pro Max to the latest iOS version i.e. 14.4 but still I am getting the flickering issue even in 1080p at 60FPS with the smart HDR on .

The flickering in my case is mainly in the sky when I shot the video in natural light.

This makes the video completely unusable.

Hi there, Ive had the exact same issues but just my 1x Optical Zoon on the normal camera, I figured its a software issue and have been in contact with apple and they have said theyre well aware of the issues and apple is already onto releasing the next software update for it! Though it is very frustrating being a photographer and relying on your camera every day, really all I can do now is use the wide angle and crop it in :(