Ios15 iPhone 13 brightens every dark photo

This has got to be fixed Apple, you’re not doing us any favors when the capture looks so much different than pre-capture. Not to mention how much this artificial brightening degrades quality. The camera is unusable indoors unless next to a window with natural light.

Literally bought this phone specifically for the camera. Every time i take a picture it auto adjust and the picture grainy and no longer has much color and i have to edit it and pick a live photo i like better…it’s annoying to do that EVERY dang picture. Apple needs to fix this ASAP

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’m having the same issues with my iPhone 13 and it’s sooo annoying , the picture looks all bright and perfect before I take it and after I take it, it gets darker and bad. Have you found a solution 😭

kindly let me know

olivia729 wrote: "...Apple please fix this..."

olivia ~ Although Apple administers these communities, that doesn't include reading each of thousands of daily posts for possible requests. However, Apple will "read all feedback carefully" here:

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Following a recent upgrade from the iphone11 I’m having the same issue as Andrew with the 13 pro max.

A suggestion is to choose another frame from the live feed to avoid the brightened frame BUT the camera app automatically crops any other frame chosen, so, if you’ve spent a while carefully composing a shot , choosing a different frame crops in from the original composition.

Choosing Raw, as another suggested alternative then disables live mode, so if you did wish with hindsight, to choose a specific frame, this is not possible in RAW as RAW and live don’t work together.

I’m very annoyed that my shots taken in slightly dull conditions are being automatically brightened -and the only way I can see to get around it is to lose my original composition and choose another live frame, or shoot RAW and lose LIVE.

I am a keen iPhone photographer and chose to upgrade for a better camera system. This issue however makes me wonder if I’ve made the wrong decision. It seems to me to be a fundamental flaw and a big step backwards.

Please, please fix it Apple.

Hi and thank you for your reply. I too remember film days!

Whilst I understand that some enhancement is nothing new, I can’t for the life of me understand why apple has introduced this auto brightening.

Today I took a sequence of shots outdoors. We’ve had a fairly bright day here today, yet still in live mode, pictures are being auto brightened. So much so, that blue skies are completely blown out ( whatever adjustment I make to exposure) unless the shot is taken in RAW mode. This brightening ‘feature’ is not just a little bit of colour enhancement.

As I said earlier, choosing a non brightened frame from the live mode capture is not a great option if the photographer wishes to keep their original composition.

Auto brightening is not an enhancement. It’s an annoyance.

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Same thing happens to me and I check all the settings and couldn't find a solution here. It's really annoying since I like the picture tu be dark(er). It's almost like the picture gets fixed after.

YES. it’s driving me insane. It’s overbrightening all my photos it’s annoying

This is exactly what happens to me. It gets the pictures darker when I view them

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This happens by default. Restarting the phone/ changing Camera settings doesn’t help!

My old iPhone camera was better, there was no autocorrection like that. Make it optional, not default!

Samoshsamosh wrote: "Make it optional, not default!"

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A lot of us among the forum “regulars” agree with you. Best to let Apple know, as we have: https://apple.com/feedback.