Why does my iPhone 12 Pro Max Photo auto adjust exposure of a photo taken with the Camera app?

My iPhone 12 Pro Max (with iOS 14.3) always auto-adjusts the exposure (or contrast) of a photo taken with the original Camera app. It happens when I take a photo then switch to Photo app to view it, the image seems going some background processing for little while and applied with some filter i.e. exposure, vividness, contract changed. I tried disabling all the tweaks in the Camera Settings e.g. Smart HDR, Scene Detection, Lens Correction, even the View Full HDR (under Photos). None of them works, my iPhone always applies auto-adjustment to the photo compared to its original.

How can I disable this ? or could this be some defect with my lens?

iPhone 11 Pro Max

Posted on Dec 17, 2020 5:03 PM

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Posted on Jan 12, 2021 2:48 AM

visitor123 wrote:

This was Apple Support’s reply when I contacted them about this: “After researching this, this is an expected behavior for that device, it shows the image preview and it's followed by the fully processed image.”

Are you shooting RAW? Apple Pro RAW files need developing after the photo has been taken to create a final image version from the RAW file. And the finished and developed version may look different from the first, basic preview of the RAW file.

Apple ProRAW (iOS 14.3) On iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, you can take photos in Apple ProRAW to edit images with higher levels of creative control. See Take Apple ProRAW photos.

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Aug 18, 2021 9:53 PM in response to kunxia

It’s called the iPhone awful move for idiots. They now cater to the general population who thinks adding sharpness to photos looks great. It’s very sad that after spending so much money Apple is changing my photos to some standardized commercial looking bs they decided for me. I’ll have to buy a photo app to use on my iPhone because Apple just wasn’t capable enough to give us what we actually need. So then what’s the point of this phone? I am going to sell it, get rid of my ICloud and move to a different platform. I already feel trapped anough

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