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iPhone 12 photo color quality

I’m taking pictures of paintings/artworks with my new iPhone 12. Oranges and reds are super saturated and blue and turquoise read as grays. I find this frustrating as my previous iPhone 6s could replicate color correctly.


Any thoughts? Adjustments? Or is this the way it’ll be?

Posted on Feb 2, 2021 3:02 PM

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Posted on Feb 2, 2021 3:13 PM

Is this only on your phone display - or is it the same if you download to a computer. If only on the phone:

Have a look at display settings to see if something is amiss there

Especially night shift mode, and make sure it hasn't somehow been permanently set to very warm.


If it is the same on the computer, check the camera colour setting, and make sure it hasn't been set to one of the warm filters - eg vivid warm, or dramatic warm. If so, set it back to original.


see "take a picture with a filter" here:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph263472f78/ios

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Feb 2, 2021 3:13 PM in response to Ahostudio

Is this only on your phone display - or is it the same if you download to a computer. If only on the phone:

Have a look at display settings to see if something is amiss there

Especially night shift mode, and make sure it hasn't somehow been permanently set to very warm.


If it is the same on the computer, check the camera colour setting, and make sure it hasn't been set to one of the warm filters - eg vivid warm, or dramatic warm. If so, set it back to original.


see "take a picture with a filter" here:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph263472f78/ios

Feb 3, 2021 8:24 AM in response to TonyCollinet

Thanks Tony. All display setting a look good. Color quality issue remains on various computers and Instagram images. Im wondering why iPhone 6s read colors true but the “improved” camera exaggerates reds and oranges, and doesn’t seem sensitive to gradation of blue and turquoise— they still appear as in gray range. Incidentally I’ve tried shooting with the various filters. They change the color for sure but look artificial.

iPhone 12 photo color quality

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