Ios15 iPhone 13 brightens every dark photo

S-Paula wrote:

Please, please fix it Apple.

This is a user-to-user forum. Although Apple administers this Apple Support Communities site, that doesn't include reading each of thousands of daily posts for possible feedback. However, Apple will read all feedback carefully here: https://apple.com/feedback

Those of us old enough to remember “film” also remember Kodachrome film, which made all images brighter that what the photographer saw. So this isn’t anything new. In fact, Paul Simon even incorporated it into a song: https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/paulsimon/kodachrome.html

Kodachrome

They give us those nice bright colors

They give us the greens of summers

Makes you think all the world's

a sunny day

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don't take my Kodachrome away

Kodak’s alternative was Ektachrome, which produced truer colors (and had the advantage that you could develop it yourself; Kodachrome had to be factory-developed by Kodak).

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

Mary ~ Let Apple know here:

iPhone Feedback

õ¿õ¬

Exactly…. My new iPhone 13 pro max makes all my pictures darker. It would seem okay at first but once I go back to the picture, it would become darker all of a sudden. I don’t know how to fix this.

having the same issue. i bought this expensive iphone for the camera and now it’s altering my photos and there’s no way to turn it off. it brightens it up and even creates artifacts on the image in the process. how hard would it be just to have a way to turn this off?

I have the same problem with my iphone 13 pro! I did it all but it still doesn't help and some effect is constantly appearing on the images, which actually ruins them. I have had an iphone XS so far, with XS the pictures are so much better and more natural than with the iphone 13 pro! apple fix it! it's just frustrating!

I totally agree with you! I also bought this iphone because of the camera. I’m used to the soft, warm and natural tones of the images with my iphone xs. And I expected the same with the iphone 13 pro. But this thing with the camera, adding effects and "correcting" the photo is a total disappointment !! I am thinking of going back to iphone xs.

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.

When taking photos of Christmas lights, my iPhone 13 Pro does not capture correct colors. Reds look orange and the blues look washed out. Couldn’t figure out anyway to capture a true color photo at night.

The opposite happens to me on my 13 Pro and it’s incredibly frustrating. My photo will look well lit before hitting the capture button yet then once I capture the image, the phone auto processes it and makes it look darker/throws the coloring off. I’ve tried playing around with all the settings and nothing seems to work. Seems to mainly happen with the front camera on mine. Really hope they fix this soon. It doesn’t make the phone/camera fun to use,

Yes! This is ridiculous! I got new iPhone mostly for the camera and it does this stupid thing that I can’t even look at my selfies anymore! What is this? Autocorrection? Make it optional!

I want my dark, low exposure pics!

Hi there, I fixed this by doing a time lapse mode photo (annoying that I had to but you know, Apple rant here—the phones think *for* us too much sometimes). Note: doesn’t work in pictures you try to take from messages.

Hope this helps! 😊

I found a workaround! To be fair, I'm on a 7+ and iOS 15.0.2 so it may not work for everyone, but...

If you do a time-lapse mode photo for barely even a second (note: it won't work in snapping/sending pics from a text) it undoes the photo adjustment feature and gives you an actual photo of how dark it actually is. If you don't want time lapse you can screenshot the photo.

Hope this helps! :)

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:)

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:)