Iphone 11 HDR Deep fusion does not work well on front camera - bad selfie

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Iphone 11 HDR Deep fusion does not work well on front camera - bad selfie

Hi!

i just bought an iphone 11 , 3 weeks ago in the US.

I’ve noticed that the front camera takes pictures that seem underexposed with high contrast and a few stronger shadows. Especially in daylight.

i remember my last iphone xr took pictures with a smoother appearance, the sample poster of how an HDR pic looks.

I was wondering if this is normal?

i now turn the exposure higher to take a good picture woth the front camera.

i mean the quality of the picture is not bad, is just the lighting that looks a tiny bit off, darkish or shadowy. I cant edit it on lightroom and it looks good.

but it is quite annoying to edit every single picture

Is this normal?

iPhone 11, iOS 14

Posted on Dec 21, 2020 12:36 PM

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Answer 1

CarlAVII

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Dec 23, 2020 7:19 PM in response to joselyn213

Thanks for the pictures, joselyn213,

There is something we suggest checking into. On the following article, under "Automatically apply a tailored look to your photos", try disabling Scene Detection and let us know if there is a difference.

About the Camera features on your iPhone - Apple Support

Cheers!

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Answer 2

Dec 23, 2020 4:23 PM in response to joselyn213

Hello joselyn213,

We understand that you're seeing some concerns with your front-facing camera. Does this occur in all photo modes, such as portrait and standard?

Also, is your iPhone fully up to date? Here's how, if you need: Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

We look forward to hearing back from you!

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mario49

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Dec 26, 2020 12:19 PM in response to joselyn213

Hello, joselyn213,

At this stage, we would recommend that you Contact Apple Support so that they can look into this in greater detail with you.

Thanks for using Apple Support Communities!

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joselyn213 Author

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Dec 23, 2020 5:58 PM in response to joselyn213

To illustrate my point here is a collage of pictures of well my forehead.

they are all in the same room and in aimilar lightning.

the first one was taken with the iphone 11 and all the other ones with iphone xr.

there is a differences in how the iphone 11 shoots lights and shadow together.

I don’t know if this is how the new hdr generation should look. Because it honestly reminds me of my old compact cameras

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joselyn213 Author

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Dec 23, 2020 5:47 PM in response to Nicholas_B2

Hello.

actually yes. In every mode and in the front and main camera. The photo is a bit dark white high contrast between shadows and light. I have to up the level of exposure to get more of an accurate color . Is this a software issue?. i had to update my phone to ios 14.3 through itunes because I lost my password.

I’m not sure if this is the normal way the iphone 11 takes pictures: because my photos woth the xr were very different

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joselyn213 Author

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Dec 23, 2020 8:30 PM in response to CarlAVII

Hello

thanks for the suggestion

i read the article and it says that option is only available on iphone 12 and i have iphone 11

I try searching for it on my menu but the option does not exists

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Iphone 11 HDR Deep fusion does not work well on front camera - bad selfie

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