iPhone 13 ProMax HDR photos oversaturated (i.e look fake)

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Nope. This specific issue makes me not want to take pictures period, but if you have Instagram, their camera is exactly what your looking for. The photos look fresher and realistic.

Hope this helps!

I'm returning my iPhone 13 Pro tomorrow. Very disappointingly it takes hideous over-saturated pictures. Even after deep diving into all the settings and disabling all features that might be interfering, there's no way to avoid the garishly over-saturated colors and the aggressive noise reduction. Experience has taught me not to keep a camera that doesn't deliver the right colors right out of the box. Life's too short to be tweaking every picture in post.

terabite wrote:

Life's too short to be tweaking every picture in post.

That’s the world of digital.

I have a $7000 DSLR combo, and every photo spends several minutes being tweaked in Lightroom before even being posted to Facebook let alone being printed or used for an advertisement.

Even if just to hit the magic wand, every phone camera photo, no matter whether Android or iPhone, usually needs something similar.

That’s why Apple has their refund policy; even though the iPhone 13 has been rated best phone camera by most photography blogs and tech reviewers, no product will be perfect for everyone’s needs.

No harm, no foul, enjoy whatever alternative device you eventually choose.

I am ready to throw this phone in garbage and ready to go back to the 11pro max. I can't get a good photo without editing it endlessly and even then the red is so saturated it doesn't matter what I do. I do social media and need to take good photos on the fly. Anyone have any ideas. Is there another app we can use to correct this?

Here's what Apple says: "Our Pro camera system gets its biggest upgrade ever. With next-level hardware that captures so much more detail. Bring on 
the night. iPhone 13 Pro was made for low light. "

I have noticed the opposite to be true - there's less detail in low light and the phone delivers muddy and blurry pictures and video in low light.

All, now following all past comments, everyone complaining about this weak and poorly designed algorithms…..and all comments on an Apple communication tool….anyone believes Apple is going to do something quickly to offset this situation?

I may be in a different boat, but I love the way my videos look at 4K @ 60 fps. The colors pop and the HDR looks amazing. However, comparing to my photos the photos look dim. Are the photos not in HDR?

i spent all night trying to fix this. I hate what they have done to photos. The iPhone 11 Pro Max would shoot and save image exactly how it was displayed on screen. Now you take a picture and it boosts the white to comical levels, over saturates, and looks airbrushed when you zoom in. I specifically avoid Galaxy phones for this reason and now I’m stuck with it on my iPhone 13 pro max. I hope they update and allow you to avoid this feature.

If you read some earlier posts, there is one stating that it is a hardware issue….bad luck guys, I am so disappointed with Apple. Last hope is that that post is wrong and the issue will be resolved with an software update. Let us prey.

Another funny thing is the Genius Bar. Lots of people in forums say the same thing, they have been telling them things like the camera taking a few moments to process going from the blurry image to processed is related to their wifi. Really??!??! I don't think so. It's a talking point for sure.

When I spent nearly two hours with Apple on chat and the phone on Friday the person wasn't aware of anyone with HDR related tone or other camera issues. Said they hadn't seen one bug report. Wow, I just don't see how that is possible when forums are FULL of complaints.

Tried that. All the images in the sequence had the blow out skin tone and watercolor sharpness. Plus I take LOTS of photos. I don't want to have to take LIVE shots of everything and then have to pick the frame I want. Returning.