How to turn OFF 'Smart HDR' on iPhone 13 pro max camera?!

It was much better before smart hdr messed up colours, they are too bright - sky looks super unrealistic so blue and some spot super white.

I know they will because here already more then 200 people press that "me too" button. And I knew for sure one day Tim will face the same problem 😂

and cmn this is just a small toggle which all others phones have except iPhone 13 🤨 also they added this toggle for video recording (okay its call just HDR video without that "smart" word), but not photo

I am a pro media person and a regular human being. When I do shots for work you better believe I custom white balance and control the light. When I’m at family parties or with friends I’m not about to blackout their windows and change their light bulbs. That’s just ridiculous. Previous iPhones didn’t require 100% controlled lighting and faces didn’t look like blurry tangerines.

Don't have multiple colors of white light present and the phone won't try to adapt, that's all I can tell you.

Any camera that does auto white balance will have the same issues. If I try to shoot my Nikon D850 with AWB on and one bulb is daylight and one soft white in the room, it's a complete toss-up as to what color white will be, as you would expect.

Faces don't look like blurry tangerines, that's a massive exaggeration.

Yes, every camera has AWB and will make a decision on what is white, but for some iPhone 13s (and you must not have a bad one) it massively over compensates. So whites look very noticeably yellow. I’ve never experienced such poor color technology on any camera DSLR or phone in almost 15 years of pro photography. And the flesh tones are the same. Dig deep enough online and you’ll see peoples examples. Putrid orange and red tones, even African American skin tones. It’s Apple’s processing. Again, if you got a less aggressive 13 I’m thrilled for you.

When I talked to an Apple support tech again Monday he said, “Yeah, I’d go buy an 11 Pro instead.” Now why would he say that?

Just got the phone yesterday, I was thinking I’m missing out something until I realized there is no control over hdr. I bought this phone for its camera and it’s hiiighhhly disappointing.

something the images come out too ugly and overexposed, phones half the price of this does much better job. Why does apple always make things hard for its users!?

Highly disappointed!

It's been known since release that HDR did not have a toggle to shut off on the iPhone 13.

You could have returned your phone then if you disliked it.

Regardless, no one here can do anything about it; if you feel strongly leave feedback as I mentioned. Feedback is read by Apple Engineering and if there is enough demand, they may implement it in a future iOS release or future phone.

I love this phone a lot of. The good outweighs the bad. I’ve been using iPhone since 2011. Btw I can’t replace it just because I doesn’t like the way it took the photo ) should sell it and buy a new one. But only 13 pro have 120 hz… and android. I hate it.

Video recording looks great on this phone and I love it the most, most important function for me, cause I found that video are the most interesting to watch when the time goes by.

about auto hdr. If this "feature" activates on every photo I took ) ofcs it will be super annoying and this thread will explode, not only by my posts. 1 out of 50 photos for me is broken. So I accept it and wait for apple to add an option to disable it same they did for video recording. Its sounds fair enough isn’t it.

You can’t turn it off but you can select your picture go on edit. Then you click at the live symbol ( the circle). It will show all the pictures taken to live mode. Select the other one and then come back to the one you like. It will take off the HDR effect. Then you click on make key photo. Click on done.

I did thank you and as I understand a lot of other users did too. But still, in the 15.3 update Apple don´t seem to have done anything about it. The camera on the iPhone 13 should be better it was promised, it maybe is but the software for it was not. As least this far.

That isn't true.

ProRAW is available on the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max (the Apple documentation has not yet been updated.)

Likewise, Lightroom Mobile, Halide and Snapseed, among others, all have access to the camera sensor to create RAW DNG files on iPhone 13 family devices.

ProRAW has some processing done, but less than images from the Camera app.

Third party apps have access to RAW sensor data, but you must save the files as RAW DNG files and post-process them using additional software such as Lightroom on a Mac as you would need to with any camera's RAW files.

The "sharpness" missing from the RAW files are because it's a single photo, and ProRAW (and Camera) photos are actually computationally combined images of multiple photos taken at multiple exposures - the processing you dislike.

RAW photos are just a single shot so are much more sensitive to exposure and lighting.

This is like buying a $5000 professional camera and complaining it only took one button press to take a good photo with your $100 point-and-shoot.

Apple delivers what is a wonderful photo for most customers out of the box.

If you explicitly want something else, you can get it but it will take more work.

Apple's ProRAW is not an actual RAW. There IS processing baked in (sharpening can be zeroed out in Lightroom, for example). I agree, it's horrible. I wouldn't have bought the PM13 if I'd know, as I buy Apple's phones primarily for the opportunity to shoot DNGs.

ProRAW auto-sharpens. Open any Apple ProRAW profile DNG in Lightroom and you'll see that.

I really dislike the way Apple has disguised (and f*d up) their RAW option now. ProRAW is not a true RAW file.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguSpnDoShM

FIX THIS APPLE.