I just bought the new iPhone 13 pro max. I cannot figure out how to turn off the auto smart HDR on my camera. All of the photos I take look overly sharpened and unrealistic. There is no toggle in camera settings to turn off 'Smart HDR' like there used to be. PLEASE HELP!
iPhone 13 Pro Max, iOS 15
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.
just look at my face in this picture, couldn’t get more terrible!
The place had enough light for a 2021 flagship to capture a descent picture and the 13 pro max camera made it watercolour. It was seriously annoying, gets worse the more we use the camera.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tens of millions of iPhone users and photography sites disagree.
Should you want to suggest Apple include a way to turn it off within the Camera app, you may do so here:
No one reading your messages here has any ability to influence their decisions.
Praying they fix this. I am so regretting buying this phone.
Exactly. That article tells you how to turn off automatic HDR on all other phone models EXCEPT for the 13. How could they miss something so huge.
Please fix this! The auto HDR is rarely the version I chose side by side before. Is this choice now hidden within the style presets?
Getting very unpredictable and often ugly results. Please allow us to turn off HDR.
very ridicolous. photos are ugly and unrealistic. why apple doesn't fix it?
WHY ARE THEY NOT FIXING THIS?!
Incredibile. This is very very frustrating
This needs to be fixed … immediately. Please.
The HDR setting is awful. Why would they force that image! FIX THIS APPLE!
How to turn OFF 'Smart HDR' on iPhone 13 pro max camera?!
