Over sharpening photos post processing | iPhone 12 Pro Max

Same thing happens on iPhone 12. Unfortunately I cannot use the ProRaw feature so I'm stuck with this. Would really like to be able to disable this or tone this down in camera options. In this state, photos look really really bad.

I bought a new iPad Air 4 recently and have been frankly horrified by the over-sharpening I get there. I'm still using an old iPhone 6, which I prefer to the iPad even for a photo of a paper invoice. I'm sad to see this is an issue with the new iPhones as well. I really hope Apple can back off with this.

Same here, I was terrified to see the output after changing from XS to 12 pro max. Especially text becomes horrible when over sharpened. HEIC looks even much worse than JPG.

Everywhere they praise the best photo quality ever reached on iPhone and this was a major reason for me to buy the flagship. How can it be?

This makes a big difference! Photographs definitely look better with this switched off. Thank you 😊

I have this same problem. I bought the 12 pro max for the camera and these pictures come out terrible. I’m so disappointed. I can’t believe Apple would let this go. Please developers....fix it!

I’ve done that. I’m hoping a lot of people do so they’ll take it seriously.

I "upgraded" from an iPhone X to an iPhone 12 almost JUST because of the supposed camera being better. But I actually hate the pictures.... enough to consider selling it and downgrading. :'(

Thank you! I still think there is something off but that definitely helped!

Thank you so much!! It does help a lot

You welcome!

I have the exactly the same observation. I previously had an iPhone X and just upgraded to iPhone 12 Pro Max- I took some shots of my dog in the park today (using the 1x lens) and I was quite disappointed with the amount of sharpening applied. It made the photos look far to ‘digital’ the photos from the iPhone X where far more pleasing. After looking forward to the arrival of my new phone, I was quite disappointed. I hope Apple apply an update and either tone down the sharpening or provide the opportunity to turn it off (or down). Maybe the upcoming Raw release will help, but I was hoping for good (JPEG) shots right out of the phone. I am going to experiment some more with the HEIF format.

I’ve also downloaded the Halide app to see if I can get some better results.

I agree with your observations. From initial samples of the new ProRaw on the web, it appears that the sharpening is partially or mostly removed. I don't have my iPhone 12 max yet to verify that. If I get fed up enough I often apply a small amount of negative Clarity slider in Lightroom on the iPhone and that does help.

I'm having the same issues! I didn't notice it at first... figured it was just the new screen was showing more vibrant colors, but the last week or so it's really stood out. I've taken pics in the middle of the day and dusk and both times, the pics are either over exposed, adding blueish hues to areas that aren't blue and made a sunset insanely red orange. It looks photoshopped.