iPhone 13 Camera is blurry

It's actually interesting; the photos from the 13 all show shutter speeds at which motion blur/camera shake is a definite issue (1/50s or 1/60s as compared to 1/121s which is fast enough camera shake isn't as much of an issue.)

Because a relatively small subset of iPhone owners are unhappy with their cameras?

If even ten percent of iPhone owners were showing up at Apple Stores complaining about their cameras, believing them to be broken it would be much more noticeable both here as well as to Apple.

The "I have this question too" counts are essentially meaningless as anyone can click that.

In the end, however, the bottom line is you and others here don't like the camera's processing, most have no issue with it, but no one participating in this discussion can do anything about it other than:

1) Shoot in ProRAW

2) Use a third-party app to take photos

3) Leave feedback at: Feedback - Camera - Apple

There are weird pp artifacts around both of the dogs in the daylight pic. The softness and lack of detail is due to the heavy handed AI processing, not subject movement. That's unacceptable, and if it happens on my Pro Max when I get it, I'll be visiting the Apple store.

Mark

The front camera actually does a much better job than it did on phones past.

The key is you have to have good light or the processing will do what it has to to make a good photo out of the image data the sensor can capture.

Where previously it would just produce a bad, grainy photo, now it will use Deep Fusion to try and make a "daylight" photo out, often leading to a lot of smoothing.

Yes.

It's doing what it can to make a decent photo out of bad lighting conditions, especially in night mode.

Take photos in better light and you will get better results.

Use Night mode on your iPhone - Apple Support

For anyone on this thread, if you think there is something wrong with your phone, have it examined at your local Apple Store:

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

or contact Apple Support directly:

Contact - Official Apple Support

This phone has been awful at taking pics from day 1 I went to an apple store and they replaced the handset with a new one and still all the same issues on the new one and 15.4 has fixed nothing. This is such a major problem that needs to be fixed, all photos I take with the native camera app come out all blurry and over sharpened with a cartoony water colour effect. Everything looks fine and great in the viewfinder but as soon as you snap a pic and then open in the gallery after about 2 seconds it does some awful processing and completely destroys the picture, it’s definitely a software issue as when I shoot in Lightroom I don’t get none of this processing! The fact that we paid so much for this phone and the main camera app is broken and still has not been fixed is so infuriating! So many people having these issues I’m guessing it’s down to deep fusion and HDR, we need a toggle to turn HDR off like in previous devices, I really don’t understand why Apple took this away from us and left us with awful pictures! Why give us the choice in previous phones then take it away because they think it’s best! Let the user decide what’s best for them by giving the option. I’m going back to apple store and returning this replacement. Nothing but issues with this phone such a shame as I love everything else about it.

It’s nothing to do with “QA.”

The cameras are working as designed, and the vast majority of customers are thrilled with them.

If you don’t like the processing there are ways to avoid it by using third-party apps like Halide, Lightroom Mobile and Snapseed.

Many of the other issues you mention can be ameliorated by use of options, like using Macro Control to turn off switching.

Your “blurred” 3x images are likely because there was not enough light to use the physical 3x lens and so digital zoom was used on the 1x image.

Note all cameras, even $6000 mirrorless pro cameras, have difficulties focusing in low light.

All of these things have been discussed previously in this thread at some length.

You returned your phone as it wasn’t the right choice for you, and that’s why Apple has a return policy.

Thanks for sharing this example. very helpful!

i think that is always useful seeing examples with iPhone previous model.

I understand that light condition is low but also that the thing we are focusing here is the processing to remove the noise that looks more like oil painting. 11 pro telephoto has 2.0 aperture, 13 pro has 2.8. it means that 13 pro ones tends to "capture" less light.

Did you try to run the same test using portrait mode instead?

I personally noticed that the processing using this mode is different lately. it was not when i bought iPhone 13 Pro at day 1.

If you believe there is a factory error with your device, have it examined; that’s why there is a warranty:

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

Apple Support may also be able to run remote diagnostics if you contact them directly:

Contact - Official Apple Support

Mine was a cover I bought. I just popped it off.

Yes, depth of field is narrower now, so you need to be more accurate in choosing a focus point.

If you are displeased with the camera, your options are to return, have your phone checked at Apple, and send feedback at https://apple.com/feedback/camera

iOS update will be released next Tuesday, if it doesn't solve the camera problem , just bring the phone back in Apple store. This is best solution

Note the front camera is substantially less sensitive to light than the main rear camera is:

• Front Camera: ƒ/2.2 aperture
• Telephoto: ƒ/2.8 aperture
• Wide: ƒ/1.5 aperture
• Ultra Wide: ƒ/1.8 aperture and 120° field of view

iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max - Technical Specifications - Apple

So in dark areas the phone has to do more processing to come up with a usable image.