Ios15 iPhone 13 brightens every dark photo

YES i am also experiencing this and it’s so frustrating!! the only work around I’ve figured out is making sure live photos is on and once I’ve taken the photo, editing and selecting a different “key photo” for the live photo. it’s agitating because every other frame in the live photo looks normal and how I would expect it to look before the phone auto adjusts the **** out of the brightness.

I really wish there was some way to turn off this over correction

So this is what helps:

turn raw on - that way you will have access to the unedited photo

after you take a picture and iPhone brightens it like crazy click on edit and you will see how photo will go back to its original state. In order to save it like that wimpy move the exposure setting to the left or right, doesn’t matter and then click on save and you will have an un-edited photo.

too annoying to do it on every photo, but at least it helps.

Same issue!

I turned raw on and after I take a photo I edit it and just change any setting and it removes the auto correction. But doing it on every photo is so annoying!

Hi idk if this will work but try settings>photos>View full HDR and turn it off

Turn off Live Photo, fixes the problem

Another solution is to make sure your photo is Live; then tap “edit”, and tap the Live circle thing(that’s on the far left). Then you can change which “Key Photo” frame you like and you can save it- it won’t overbrighten after that and it will still be saved as a Live Photo:)

Hello amcllelan,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

To confirm, does this happen with the Camera? Or is this happening with third party apps? If using one, try the other.

Also, is this happening right after taking photos with the camera or is it changing it when opening older photos too.

Make sure you've done a restart and that you're using the latest iOS version:

Restart your iPhone Sometimes a restart can help resolve issues.

Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

When viewing a photo to edit, what does your exposure, contrast and brightness settings show? Is it at 0 and does adjusting it help? Take and edit photos on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Cheers!

Here’s what i do: when I swipe to view my photos, for a split second I can see the darker version of the picture before it overbrightens. I take a screenshot of it before it overbrightens and so far I’m satisfied. If you find it is too fast for you to screenshot in time before the overbrightening, you can also make sure it’s a Live Photo and then you can hold down on it and then screenshot before the live ends. Let me know if it works:)

I just upgraded from the X to the 13 Pro and was so disappointed!

I took some pictures in a darker setting and when I went to go view them in Photos I saw each out auto lighten one by one. I couldn’t find anywhere in edit to reverse this or the settings to turn this off. As other people have mentioned, when I play the Live Photo it’s normal but the pic itself it altered/lightened.

After googling and finding this forum, apparently this is an issue with no solution :( I got the pro for the extra camera and I love editing my pictures myself. It’s ridiculous that the photo I take is altered automatically and there’s no “revert” option or way to turn this off. This isn’t what I signed up for, this phone cost me is $1,800.

As someone else in this forum suggested, I sent feedback to the apple link provided. I hope they let us turn this feature off, I don’t see the point to it and it just ruins my photos.

I finally found the answer! When you focus you will get a sun you can scroll the sun up or down to increase or decrease the sun!

You can thank me😅

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Same for me too. It's horrible all my pictures are ruined. Apple seems to boost the contrast and brilliance to maximum level every time there's a face in the picture, if I remove the person and take another photo, I get a normal photo. I also get big halos around people's silhouettes and there is no way to stop it or change back to original photo.

i’ve been doing the live photo thing for the past month. it’s annoying but it seems like the best solution so far since you can quickly edit and choose a new key photo. definitely easier than screenshot ring. but imagine how much easier things would be if apple just let you turn off the auto-correct feature.

Maryhasaniphone wrote: "YES. it’s driving me insane. It’s overbrightening all my photos it’s annoying"

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Debee21 wrote: "...Really hope they fix this soon."

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