I just got the iPhone 12 Pro Max and when I take photos, and then go to look at the photo, the phone appears to auto-enhance the photo. Is there a way to turn this off? It's making some of my photos (mainly with people in them) look terrible. It's over-exposing and over-saturating the photo and no amount of editing can make it look normal after that. It's extremely frustrating.
iPhone 12 Pro Max, iOS 14
I figured this out for my iPhone 11. It was automatically enhancing photos and seemed to be overexposing shots, sometimes with a message that said “preparing photo.” I had turned off the HDR setting in Camera settings, and that did not fix the problem. But then I noticed that in addition to Camera settings, there is also a tab for Photo settings. I looked in there, and there is a *second* HDR setting that was turned on. I turned that one off, and was able to take a photo without getting the ugly enhancement. Yay!
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Please all send feedbacks, I got the 13 pro and I’m regretting it.. let’s hope they do something in ios 15.2
If it's been 14 days or less, you may want to return it for a refund and get something else.
Could you please advise what the correct combination of settings is to stop this from happening? I have turned off everything and it is still happening. Pictures keep referring to this over edited version that doesn’t look like me.
I did the same setting adjustments and nothing works. I really hope there’s an update in the future that gets rid of this auto-enhancing. I’d rather edit my own photos than have Apple decide what to do for me.
This is happening to me as well. Here is the difference(screen shot of viewfinder before photo, and second is the auto rendered photo). So infuriating because I specifically wanted this phone because it would allow me to take an artistic and custom/quality approach with photos.
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.
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.
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!
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.
iPhone 12 Pro Max Photo Auto Enhance
