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 paid $1300 for
my iPhone pro and it’s making my photos look horrible!!! Joseph S sent us to a very generic instruction page which isn’t at all helpful, we already know how to use the camera but we want to turn of the junk added by Apple to our photos. To add to the insult Apple shows me the photos I’m taking - the way I love them- and changed is to crap right in front of me by over sharpening and overexposing them. This camera is BS, I don’t need this cheap awful processing and want options to edit myself. I didn’t pay $1300 for a filter to be added to mg images. @apple fix this issue!!!
This isn’t the issue. No matter what, some crappy Apple filter is forcefully applied to every single photo. I tried to edit it, for example to unsharpen but the unsharpen tool seems to be at its least meaning I can’t lower the sharpening at all. I can only add more and I want it to be unsharpened and the image to be as taken by me.
Yeah you are correct the HDR viewing settings isn’t the issue - it’s the post-processing algorithm itself, dubbed “Deep Fusion” by Apple that they introduced with iPhone 11. The engineers have gone over the top with the autocorrection and enhancement.
if you download Halide and shoot in raw, you can turn off deep fusion. That’s the only app I’ve found where there is a literal option to turn it off.
I already returned mine. I’m going to wait for the 13 + iOS 15 in the hope some of this is addressed (lol).
Yes, it is really annoying, especially those who really like to see the exact image that they shoot with their mob. Cam. If we take photos of people sometimes this auto correction make them look really old. This is not a stupid Chinese android phone. this is iphone; it should keep the standard.. we need the exact photos that we shoot. No need some stupid corrections on photos without our permission
I Got my IPhone 13 Pro Max a few days ago and was horrified what the auto enhance did to my photos.
To get around this issue until they give the option to turn the auto enhance off.
Go to camera settings and turn on Use Volume Up for Burst
Take photos using burst mode
Go to the photo and choose Select at the bottom
Choose one or however many you like
Press Done and Keep whatever you have selected.
Your photo will be there with no auto enhancements 🙂
I am on the 13 Pro Max now with same exact issues. It’s apple’s “deep fusion” algorithm, not a hardware issue.
my solution is to use HALIDE, third part camera app, which allows you to turn off the deep fusion post processing.
I have exactly the same problem with an iPhone 13 Pro, so I assume this annoying setting is still here. I’ve tried every setting, watched every tutorial I could find, and finally discovered this discussion, but I couldn’t turn this auto-edit (which is not good at all) off. Anyway, I found a little trick, it’s not great, but it helps you keep your original photo: make sure you have LIVE mode On, take the pic, access your Photo ➡️ tap Edit ➡️ at the bottom, right next to Cancel, there is a circle (LIVE mode icon), tap there ➡️ above you’ll see a bar where you can choose another shot of your LIVE photo, choose another one and ‘Make Key Photo’. Now you have your original shot, but I must say, the quality is not the same.
Anyway, this is not a great solution, so, dear Apple, please note: we want the freedom to edit our photos as we like, this auto setting that enhance, brighten, sharpen the image, besides the fact that it’s so, so bad, it doesn’t allow us to turn it off.
Only here, there are hundreds of people who doesn’t enjoy this. Please do something!
Thank you!
I posted earlier about turning the live mode off but didn’t do a great job on the details and also grabbed the wrong picture. With my iPhone 13- it’s having the live mode of that was causing the issues. You have to make sure the live mode is turned off. Also need to make sure it doesn’t automatically reset itself to on again.
No it does work no matter what! I have the IPhone 12xpro. It’s a huge disappointment and you’d think that $1300 would allow me to customize per my own design. Utter rubbish. Going w the ‘other’ brand next year. Apple doesn’t listen to our needs and they just assume everyone wants IG ready images or crap that looks like stock photos. How about give us the option to not dumb down our worlds??? Apple are you listening????
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!
I have this problem too with my 12 Pro Max, but everyone does. Apple calls it "computational photography", or deep fusion, and/or any other blitz of marketing names they've come up with in recent years. They've published white papers about it.
Gone are the days when you point an iPhone at a photo, snap, and actually get THAT photo. The same thing is happening with all smartphones. In Apple's case, what we're getting instead is a processed version of that photo through Apple's imaging pipeline that's making any number of adjustments to the photo before it appears on your screen. Some of these features can be turned off in Settings > Camera. Others cannot.
Some people love what these imaging processing features do because their photos just magically "look better". I personally hate it, because I'm a photographer who fusses over details, exposure, color tone, shadow detail, etc, and I don't want Apple's version of my photo....I want my version of the photo. In particular, skin tones and skies (under certain circumstances) look horrible on the 12 Pro Max with the latest iOS version. Simply awful. e.g., Whatever this camera is doing to skin tones indoors in lower light is dreadful. They're tone mapping the faces to the point where any skin tone nuances are obliterated and the people look uniformly pasty and fake.
The solution to this is simple: Apple should give people who want it the control to turn off most of what they're auto-doing to our photos. They do give you some control in Settings > Camera, but it's not nearly enough. There should be a setting called 'Realistic' that just gives me what the camera's image sensor is seeing, with zero processing. That's what photographers want out of iPhone cameras.
I used to buy new iPhones every two years hoping for camera upgrades that actually help me as a photographer. Typically, Apple has succeeded with that in the past. But now...with computational photography...Apple is going in the complete wrong direction for certain photo situations and I will be much more careful when buying new iPhones to evaluate the camera more carefully in all types of lighting before I just jump on board with an upgrade. Caveat emptor!
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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
iPhone 12 Pro Max Photo Auto Enhance
