iPhone 12 Pro Max Photo Auto Enhance

Can we get a developer in here? 70% of my iPhone photos have this happen to them and the photos end up looking absolutely nasty. This phone was egregiously expensive; @apple, you have the money and the manpower to fix it, so please fix it.

Thanks for chiming in. This is a shame. I’m not really sure what to do - I’d rather not go back to Android especially since I’ve now purchased an iPad Pro as well. I exchanged my iPhone X (whose camera I loved) for this.

OMG! This is driving me crazy! I turn off all settings one by one to see if any made a difference and it didn’t. Then I purposely took a selfie and used the exposure control to drastically underexposed the photo. When I opened the photo it looked like the one I took and a second layer bam, totally enhanced like I had applied a filter. I bought an iPhone 12 because of the camera, otherwise my iPhone 6sPlus was still working just fine and takes great photos. It appears the auto scene detection is just always on and the toggle doesn’t switch it off. Please fix soon.

Same issues here. I hate that feature of Apple in my iPhone 12 Pro Max. I hope they add a setting where iPhone 12 PM users can opt to disable the auto-enhance in their photos/selfies taken in low-light. I hope they add this setting in the next major update. Auto-enhanced photos look like they were taken using an Android phone (I’ve used an Android phone so I know how the photos taken with an Android phone look like). Apple, if you can read this (and I hope you can) please resolve the auto-enhance issues. We, your loyal customers, are not happy with that feature. Thanks.

Same here with me, everytime i shot photo and jump to photos, iphone automatically make my ohito over saturated and looks like too sharp. It looks like dramatiic preset in snapshed 😭😭

i aready try to off hdr setting view in photos but it still happening.

please someone help us

thankyou

Yeah, hope apple fix this issue. It also happening on my regular iphone 12. Especially on mid or low light situation when i take photos on people face it will enhance automatically and really bright and unnatural. I hate that. I like more realistic night photos, not like overexposed or over edited like apple does

It’s happening with my I phone 12 too. It’s horrible. Over exposed and over saturated pictures. Especially with people and specifically faces. Makes people look so unnatural. I phone X pictures are so much better than I phone 12. Making me regret buying this phone. I hope apple fixes the problem.

I just came up with a roundabout solution to this issue. If you take a photo with ‘live photo’ on, then go into the photos app and change the ‘key photo’ to a different point within the live photo, it won’t “auto-enhance” the frame that you switched over to. Thus avoiding the auto enhance feature and having the original, unedited photo. Hope this helps!

If you take a photo with ‘live photo’ on, then go into the photos app and change the ‘key photo’ to a different point within the live photo, it won’t “auto-enhance” the frame that you switched over to. Thus avoiding the auto enhance feature and having the original, unedited photo. Hope this helps!

It’s an automatic filter their putting on your pictures, I have to take them off one by one so far.. Go to edit picture, click the three overlaying circles next to the crop square under the picture and you’ll see what filter they put on your picture

I found a fix that worked for my iPhone XS. Not sure if it is the same issue as being described here, but finally my photos aren't auto adjusting themselves to look grainy and high-contrast.

Under Settings > HDR, toggle "View Full HDR" off.

I’m coming from a pixel 3, and it has an option to turn off “face retouching” for selfies. As best as I can tell, this seems to be what is happening on my 12/the original issue described in this post. I submitted feedback (after talking to apple support), and I suggest (like others have) that everyone with this problem send in feedback as well.

apple.com/feedback

Almost 500 people having this issue for more than a year! No working fix has been found? I tried all advices in this thread (torn off smart-hdr, full hdr in photos settings, lens correction, scene detection, etc.). Nothing helps on my 12 pro max. Is apple going to fix it? Really annoying!

If you take a photo with ‘live photo’ on, then go into the photos app and change the ‘key photo’ to a different point within the live photo, it won’t “auto-enhance” the frame that you switched over to. Thus avoiding the auto enhance feature and having the original, unedited photo. Hope this helps!

This is not a good solution! Photo is a photo. Video is a video. Live photo is a legit with 2 videos (one before one after). Changing key photo is like making a screenshot from a video, which reduces quality a lot.