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!
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.
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
None of these options worked on my iPhone 13. The pictures are horrible. I’m now just taking pictures through the Instagram app. Has anyone actually taken their phone into apple to see what they say? Think I’ll sell the phone and go back to my old iPhone which didn’t have these issues.
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????
Unfortunately it’s happening during the day time. Lighting is great but then once you take the photo, it auto-enhances and over exposes people’s faces and makes them look extremely creepy.
Looks like many people are having the same issue as me with no solution. Any tips on exact settings to adjust in order to stop the auto-enhancing?
It’s happening in day light and people’s faces get extremely washed out and it looks very unnatural.
This issue is happening in broad daylight though. Does night time auto enhance effect daylight photos as well?
juliankay1 wrote: "@apple, you have the money and the manpower to fix it, so please fix it."
Here's the place to tell Apple to fix it:
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HDR should be turned off in the *Photos* app settings! Turning it off in the Camera app settings isn't effective... hope this helps
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This works for me!! Thanks:)
That didn’t work for me. My photos are still automatically enhancing.
Did this work for anyone? It’s not making any difference for me.
iPhone 12 Pro Max Photo Auto Enhance
