Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

Hey there, lecomoura!

From your post, it sounds like you are working on changing settings for the camera on your iPhone 13 Pro. We’re glad that you reached out to the Apple Support Communities. We want to try and help you find the answers you need.

Have you had a chance to review your iPhone Camera settings and change them as needed? If not, you may want to start there. You may want to review your Scene Detection settings, Lens Correction, and Photographic Style. Here's how: About the Camera features on your iPhone.

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Please highly consider turning off this feature it makes pictures overexposed and sharpened . Please please please

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 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 !

Dear Apple-

I need to turn off auto enhance in order to take photos to send to my doctor - of a potential allergic reaction to a medication. Did you guys not consider this happens a lot, I have taken photos of a knee replacement, potentially infected cuts when on vacation out of the counrty, questionable swelling… that I can think of off the top of my head. Im sending these to close friends who happen to be in the medical field. Meanwhile they aren't accurate. Because for some reason you think your iphone knows better than I do.

People can edit if they want a look to their photos (even with the tools in your camera app, use a terrible filter or tuning app). Better yet use an actual camera. And learn how to take photos. (My nikon is not in my house at the moment - regardless should i have to use a professional camera to snap something for a doctor??)

So its 11pm and this is my only camera. Really apple - do better. There is NO excuse for not having the ability to disable this feature.

I’m to the point of throwing my iPhone 13 against a wall due to the incredibly horrible camera on this specific model.

I have over 15,000 pics most taken from other earlier phones. They’re great. The pics from this camera are horrendous. I’ve been to Apple and the Genius Bar twice with no fix. Apparently iPhone 13 is specifically known for the HDR issues and there is NO WAY to shut it off (iPhone 13 Pro doesn’t have the issue) Why would Apple not recall this phone?! Because it’s a hardware issue, software updates do nothing.

Here is the WORST part: the phone will continue post developing ON PICS THAT WERE TAKEN MONTHS AGO and ruin those pics if I simply open the pic in the photos app. Huge, wart-like bubbles on any skin, washed colors, etc. completely ruined hundreds of photos and memories. And I cannot reverse that awful post developing. I don’t have the option of taking RAW photos on this model. I can’t turn off HDR. It’s insane.

Apple is doing nothing about this. Look at the number of people above who “Me too”’d these forums!

cchattom - WRITE the letter. Please. I attempted to photograph a skin issue I was having for my dr. Could not do it. A few months later, I needed to document bruising and such - couldn't do that also. Apple is not only screwing up people's photo ops, they are bordering on negligence with this. Think of every time someone decided to stand up against an abuser - but then could not get accurate photos, because of the iphone. This is absolutely disgusting. I am beyond sickened by the fact this isn't being addressed or fixed.

Rambler67 wrote:

Terrible absolutely brutal. You pay all this money for these phones and they have that in here that you cannot control it. Every photo is a pain in the ***. Thank you Apple. I’ll definitely not be buying a new phone at least not from you people

Apple does not read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

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But if you want an Android phone, I say go for it. More iPhones for the rest of us.

SOLUTION DISCOVERED !!

I have the iPhone 15pro… multiple generations later and the front camera is still atrocious. Back as well changes the colors so drastically. Burst photo helps keep the warmth and softness without auto editing dark and sharp and grainy, but it’s not a natural way to take a photo and it’s slightly blurry it seems.

A will be forever grateful to the poster who shared you can adjust your exposure up slightly so the auto edit isn’t so drastic. And you can have your settings preserve the last used exposure so that you don’t have to adjust it every time you take a photo.

Steps below:

1. Settings - Camera - Preserve Settings - toggle ON Exposure Adjustment… next go to Formats - toggle OFF ProRAW
2. Open your camera - top left will show 0.0 and lines under, click that - Adjust the exposure higher (.7 and 1.0 work best for me)

That’s it! It is adjusting the back camera as well but I’m okay with it. It also will sharpen the photo but it’s not nearly as dark and harsh. It gives some vibrancy back but not a perfect fix.

It’s happening with the 15 pro max!

Pleas turn off the auto enchance

I don’t think it’s possible to turn off but I’ve found a way of making the situation better.

If you go to Settings>Camera>Preserve Settings and turn on Exposure Adjustment

then on the camera app in the top left you can adjust a sliding scale that will apply a preserved exposure adjustment. This is means you can set it so any photo you take will have slightly less exposure automatically, and so when the phone auto enhances the photo it will increase the exposure to a normal level instead of a ridiculously high level.

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

actually, i think i’ll switch from 13 pro to xs because apple they don't want to fix the big problem, when battery health drop down more than 80% for avrg pp and the phone becomes unusable, bugs… than she said oh we will fix on next update

Photos taken with the new iPhone 14 pro are a complete failure, I look terrible in every selfie. Grey skin, emphasized wrinkles and dark spots. None of the options worked for me! Photos are edited by this stupid upgrade anyway!