Macbook Air M1 camera quality

I'm having the same problem. The camera quality is so bad compared to my old MacBook early 2014. It's so blurry. I feel like I'm using a beauty filter. When I facetime it's even worse. Will Apple fix or recall this? Am I having a defective one or is it the normal standard for the new M1 MacBook?

Seriously. Apple supervisor told me they are aware of the problem. Of apple is aware of the problem why do they don't in ur to seek a computer with a faulty camera??? And what will they do for the people that went and traded old devices? Even if we return in the two week window now what? No device old or new?

No no improvement. My daughters 2000 ipad camera works way better!!!!!!!! This is legit a joke. And there were no other options by apple except to return. But then what are our options for a device? They need to fix this issue and assist us all with getting a quality camera. For the price of this computer, it must be done.

I found this issue on mine as well. While I don't use the camera for anything, the fact that it has poor quality either way still bothers me. I expected to get a good-quality camera from spending so much money on my first Macbook, and Apple failed to deliver. It doesn't make the sky fall, but it's rather disappointing, to say the least.

Wow, you were smart for returning your machine. I can say, I wish I did the same. I, too, and on zoom a LOT and need a quality camera. Apple really needs to make this right for anyone that continued to hold on to their new macbooks! it is truly a super fail!!

Apple is not taking this issue seriously. They have messed-up this important issue in this pandemic when people are working from home and expecting to be on Video calls very frequent. Apple is trying to cover it up by taking away discussion using M1 chip performance and other story. It is not going to work. @applesupport please take this issue seriously and provide fix or replacement; we have spent thousands of dollars and not expecting such poor quality product delivered against our hard earned money.

People will only make it a problem, because we draw attention to it.. So many users probably od use a mac tomake zoom calls/skype etc,, but i don really see that big a deal IF the user has an iphone.. Apple should fix this up, but seriously they are obvously wanting to get more people to use iOS camera..

What i'm saying is: I do not think is an accident...... If it was, they would fix it ASAP... And the delay just proves that... If it's a technical issue, they too would have publicly announced it.. Apple wouldn' make great products, and then suddenly turn into "mr. nasty"if it was an accident.

They would do the proper channels.

By hiding it from users, they know they stuffed up.... Not the Apple i once knew if true.

Sad to say, but Apple really doesn't care. They hype every model, and not until you've purchased one do you get to know it's real drawbacks.

I owned an iPad Pro and the picture was amazing, but that was all it was good for. I traded it in for this MacBook Air. Now watching a movie is so aggravating, and the sound is terrible too.

Same here. Apple should do something about this big issue. Just updated to macOS Monterey 12.0.1 (last version at 2th November 2021) and it's not fixed, so I guess it has something to do with the hardware.

Apple do something!

I thought it was me too. I have a zoom court hearing next week with this crap camera. And I originally had the other Air from 2020 and that was messed up so bad by apple they sent this to me.

If everyone starts sending in feedback I'm told they listen. How they think this is good is beyond me.

I literally just said this to my partner! I feel like I have a snapchat beauty filter on my face! You can't even see my freckles or my green eyes. I look like Japanese anime! My old Macbook webcam camera is better from years ago! This is totally crazy. I was expecting amazing quality. I'm so disgusted and disappointed at the quality.

My partner has been stuck abroad since Covid and I use the webcam all day to communicate to my friends and family as I am disabled, bedridden a lot and they live away from me. Everyone now has had similar online lifestyles with Covid so OBVIOUSLY we're expecting a really good webcam upgrade along with buying a new laptop, IN THIS DAY AND AGE.

But this makes my face look weird, it's blurry, the colours are just bizarre!! I look like I'm in a 1900's saloon western film in sepia. And it feels like Apple is trying to tell us we all are ugly so here's a built in filter for yas.. errr. Nah, I quite like my freckles and wrinkles thanks!

For the money we spend on these new computers this is outrageous. I'd go back to my 2017 Macbook Pro which has a BETTER camera than this 2020 M1 Macbook Air but it's currently in repair for the faulty butterfly keyboard that Apple lost a court case over admitting they sold it knowing the keyboard was faulty. It's been agonising to use that keyboard for a year with my arthritis now finally I get a new Mac with a keyboard that works and my face on the webcam looks like I'm on a vintage snapchat filter.

Arghhh. SORT IT OUT APPLE. This is not pennies! Some of us spent years saving for these computers. So mad.

I've just bought my new MacBook Air and I'm utterly shocked by the quality of the camera. I teach yoga on zoom and the quality of my old mac bought in 2016 is way better. I'm so disappointed to hear others have had the same problem. I spent money on this new mac expecting to have a really good camera for my work. Has anyone had any improvement on their camera or got it fixed? Any advice? Thanks...

Facing the same issue, don't know if it is a hardware defect or a problem with this model. But seriously didn't expect this from apple.

Same issue here. Glad I'm not alone, but I'd much prefer to not have this issue--or at the very least that Apple were to respond to this thread with some kind of support.