iPhone 13 Camera is blurry

Interesting, then I might visit an Apple Store.

So you had issues like

• Subject not in focus
• Blurry shots (probably because of focus)
• Face Painting
• Extreme person brightening when there is backlight
• HDR situations with blown out sky's

And all of this is gone?

Wow I really thought its only an Software issue.

Thanks for confirming.

I was wondering anyway, with scene detection, face detection (yellow box around the face) and still sometimes not in focus.

So far I had Apple on a call with remote diagnostic (nothing found) and issued a few bugreports with example pictures detailing the issues in certain situations.

Maybe I have to downgrade to a public release version and call again before a make a local appointment.

Went to see if it was just me bc I’m jealous of all the pics I see people taking with the exact same phone as me and was beginning to think it was me. Is this a software issue or hardware? So disappointed literally only reason I upgraded was for this Junk POS camera. My XS Max was better even in low light. Grainy af!

So it’s just a junk product then is what you’re saying? It’s not possible that I got a bad one? I really hope you don’t represent Apple in your response. I’ve had an iPhone since the first one and never had the camera get worse out the box. But yea thanks for the insightful perspective it’s definitely a me problem👌👍 really great stuff you’ve provided thanks for the contribution.

I think it looks perfect.

I see no overprocessing, ratherI think it looks wonderful the way it is and I think most owners of iPhone 13s would see that as an example of the best that photography can do.

Sadly we can't see the photo as was originally taken because this site doesn't support HDR.

Wow the pic and your cat really look amazing. Even the light coming from the window is captured really well.😍

by the way I tried downloading the picture and it look like this. I know that I cropped it a lot but in previous iPhones model the effect was different.

I just wanted to know if you post-processed the shot or you uploaded it as it came , straight from your phone.

thanks a lot! ☺️

Night mode is making ridiculously impossible photos possible with a single shutter click and lots and lots of processing.

To make something comparable with a DSLR would require a tripod and several stacked exposures and a half hour of processing time in Photoshop.

Night mode could make photos look like an 8-bit Atari 2600 game and I'd still be thrilled simply because of how much work it is to get anything comparable using conventional techniques.

The fact that I can now take constellation photos by just pointing my phone up while standing on my deck is bonkers.

Use Night mode on your iPhone - Apple Support

See, I'm not having that issue at all - of course I have the Pro Max. I've always had a Samsung and so far as a first time user of iPhone, I'm not impressed. Not everyone is 12 to 20. I personally would like the option to have the beauty filter that I can adjust - just like in a Samsung. I truly bought into the hype that iPhone was ahead of Samsung with the cameras - so not true.

That is good to know!!! Thanks! I seriously may do that! I hate that I have so much personal information on the phone already, but I never get clear answers from the ATT sales people... all I ever get is "Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" with a head shake when I ask if the cameras have the same portrait features. Next time I'll have to break out the crayons.

Yes, I noticed a huge difference, I take macro shots, went from an 11 Pro Max to the 13 Pro, and it is a horrible change. The macro images have no zoom, as they are bitmapped looking, and the edges of the details look like a cheap camera. Don’t know what to do with this Pro 13. Was wondering if there was some way to use the lens purely instead of all the interpolated software that is junking up my images, or is it the lens itself? I can’t even easily control which lens is being used as it jumps all over the place trying to choose for me. I wanted to want the bigger lenses, but they are giving me worse pictures. Does anyone know if I should turn in my new phone and keep the old one until the 14 or 15 comes out? I use the camera all the time, my most important feature.

Zooming in on a photo already taken is a pointless exercise. It's a digital zoom and means nothing, unless you're planning to blow up a photo to huge proportions for something. And if you are, you should be using a hugely expensive Medium Format camera system with hugely expensive lenses and more than 45 megapixel sensors.

Also, you don't have my original photo. You have a highly compressed version, which can't be compared with the original, so also not a valid comparison.

Plus, I'll stand by my photo. My photo is as in-focus as it needs to be, especially in a closeup from a cell phone camera, where you can see the iPhone cameras in the reflection on the buckle and see I'm almost close enough to the subject for the camera to touch my buckle. If that's not good enough for some here, there's not likely any other camera system in a cell phone, which can do better.

Yes, I'm truly thrilled with the cameras in my 13 Pro Max. And as someone who has studied photography and I own a Nikon DSLR with lenses costing more than my 13 Pro Max, my phone takes photos which rival my DSLR. For me, it doesn't get much better than that.

Same here (hey lobsterghost1, didn’t know you were a Nikon shooter too.)

The right hand photo looks like it may have been taken with the wide angle lens too close for it to focus properly as opposed to the ultra wide lens in Auto Macro mode.

Quick and dirty 13 Pro Max shot that isn’t even off a tripod or in decent light:

Absolutely a Nikon Shooter. Though my DSLR is lonely these days with the 13 Pro Max making it easier to leave the Nikon in it's bag with all the fancy-dancy lenses in the camera bag.

By the way, I stand by buckle photo above. I held and took the picture one handed since I was taking a picture of the buckle on my band which is strapped to my left wrist. Its as in focus as can be as far as I'm concerned.

I am experiencing the exact same problem. My rear camera is just horrendous! The lack of definition in the pictures is totally unacceptable for a near $2000 phone. I have read many many forums on potential ways to fix this problem and nothing has worked. I went from the iPhone 11 Pro Max to the 13 pro max and am really regretting it. I got the phone mostly for the camera quality, such a letdown. The captured photo is completely different from the pre capture photo through your camera lens. Any sort of selfie photo looks awful. It completely changes the colour of your skin and and even makes your face look different!

I decided to take to my Instagram story to ask others if they are experiencing this as well and I got a ton of replies from friends stating that they have the same issues. So yes it is definitely a real problem with the phone, and apple needs to fix this asap.