Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

—FOUND A SEMI FIX

if the photo is live, you can edit it and move the photo over a little bit and make that the key photo then save and it removes the auto editing on the photo.

I know it’s not a huge fix and is super annoying to have to do to every photo but hopefully apple sorts their **** out in a new update because it’s such BS!

If you screenshot the photo immediately after taking it, you can obtain the good photo before the over-processing kicks in.

I found the decision! I'm with iOS 17.

Go to Settings, Photos and turn off "View Full HDR" function. 

The problem doesn't appear to me anymore!

I’ve learned that you can screen record while in the camera app and by doing so you’ll catch that second of a glimpse of the original version of the photo. With that, you can go into the screen recording and screen shot the original version of the picture. A bit tedious and a lot of extra steps but it does get you that original version of the photo!

sadly i tried everything to turn off auto enhancing but apparently you can’t.

the thing i do now is taking the pictures, select my favorite ignoring it looks awful, and then in the app lightroom i turn reduce clarity.

hope this helps :)

I've found a solution. You can turn on the PRO Raw function on the top right corner of the phone before you start to take photo. It will disable the auto enhance function as PRO Raw only capture natural picture.

Hi,

Unfortunately, we cannot turn off the Auto enhancement feature on the iPhone. It's terrible, I know. However, there are a few tricks that you can try to stop auto-enhancing your photos at some level. These are some tricks that worked for one of my friends to correct their camera settings.

1. Turn off the HDR video feature. It will stop making your photos brighter and help you take original pictures. Go to Settings > Camera > Record Video > Turn off HDR video

2. Turn off the Night Mode. It will automatically enable you to capture video in low-light conditions. Open Camera > Click on Night Mode icon > Turn it off.

3. Turning off Smart HDR can capture original photos with better quality. Go to Settings > Camera > Turn off Smart HDR.

You can use other solutions to turn on the Auto Enhance feature on your iPhone. You can look for other workarounds here:

One of the solutions mentioned helps you fix your problem.

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Go to settings > photos > turn off View Full HDR.

worked for me 😬

I found that out if you go to settings , camera > formats turn on ProRaw and then Take a picture Go edit the picture and slightly rotate it and then turn it back and press done then it’ll be the picture you took and not the enhanced one. Hopefully this isn’t confusing it may be but hopefully this helps. I also turned off live photo

THIS WORKS!! I tried all these tricks but what actually worked was to shoot with RAW on, edit the photo, click to crop, toggle it a bit then put it back how you desire, hit done, it should go back to the original. I tried it and it worked!

i messed around a little and found out how to change it! so first turn of hdr, which should be on the top left of the camera app. then, click the arrow on the top that shows the extra settings, click the second circle on the bottom (it should be a circle with partial stripes) and then drag it to the left so it goes from “auto” to “off”. hope this helps!

I have the same issue. Considering returning the phone it’s so bad. None of the above fixes work for me… Apple support have said it’s a known issue and a they can’t help me adjust the settings to solve it, would require a software release. Hope apple fix this soon or I will be returning my phone as the whole reason I bought it was for the camera !

The auto enhancement is aweful. Apple PLEASE add an option to turn it of or at least make it possible to drastically decrease the effect. The only solution I’ve found for now is to turn off auto HDR in Photos and use Burst mode and take at least 2 pics and use one of those. This is not acceptable!

The only solution i found is third party apps. But that workflow is more tedious, takes up more space etc, which Apple probably made intentionally.

I just spoke to an apple employee who told me he was unaware of this issue, and I linked him 3 threads on the subject, and he told me he would read it in his spare time. I bet.

I also submitted feedback to apple that they need to fix a software update for this, or at least give us the option to turn the messy auto enhance off. I suggest more people to do this, that way we'll maybe see an update in the near future. I'm crossing my fingers but i doubt apple gives a sh1t about us photographers. The biggest group of users seems to be facebook moms who've never touched an exposure slider, i guess.

Once again, Apple employees, if you are reading this. Fix this sh1t. My phone is twice as expensive as my mirrorless aspc camera, and I should therefore be able have some degree of creative control, or at least be able to post process my images instead of a lousy AI.

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