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Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

Whenever I take a photo on my Iphone 13 Pro, a few seconds after the photo auto enhance, making it look terrible. I notice a change of color, increase of sharpness and crazy shadow lifting.


I've researched and looks like a lot of people have the same issue and no solution.


Any updates, any success stories on solving this?


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iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 15

Posted on Dec 29, 2021 12:50 AM

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Posted on Apr 2, 2022 11:56 AM

This article doesn’t tell you how to turn off the auto enhancement. I want my photos natural, I want to turn off the dang auto enhancement! Im mad that the iphone 13 takes the best photos but turns them into the worst of all the iphone pictures due to the horrible auto editing.

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Aug 26, 2023 8:48 PM in response to lecomoura

This happens for iphone 14 pro max too!! and it´s very disappointing because well it is a very expensive phone and you would expect it to take great pictures, the lenses work just fine actually, it´s the camera app that changes the photos. The only "solution" I could come up with is taking a screenchot of every photo before it is automatically edited so... yeah... that´s pretty much all you can do, Apple you should at least let us choose if we want our pictures edited, please? thanks :)

Oct 10, 2022 9:27 PM in response to lecomoura

Got my first iPhone 13 after years of Android.. I had chosen 13 mainly for taking pictures . I should say Iam deeply regretting the purchase.. The pictures are horribly smoothed over sharpen and there is no way to toggle off the HDR ..The highlight's and shadows are crushed even skies are blown out at times .. Please fix the camera and give us an option to manually ride the toggles

May 10, 2022 7:29 PM in response to Clavdia_C

Oops! I have the Pro. Photo software is embarrassing. Changing to RAw does not solve the issue. The only fix I’ve found is to turn highlights down by a ton. Ridiculous to spend this much $ on a phone when most pll upgrade the phone purely for the camera upgrades. iPhone 13 camera is useless without a third party app. Not a workable solution for something that costs this much $.

Dec 11, 2022 5:27 AM in response to lecomoura

I have exactly the same problem with my iPhone 13. I have to walk around with two iPhones in my pockets - I use my old iPhone XS only to take photos because they’re so much better.

I’m a photographer and it’s absolutely devastating to see your photos being destroyed infront of your eyes with the IPhone 13.


I’ve talked to so many different people from Apple, I went to different apple stores and all of them had no idea how to turn it off. I’ve tried everything!

I wanted to change it to an iPhone 14 because I thought it was only iPhone 13 that had that issue - but I’m chocked when I realised that iPhone 14 also has this auto enhancement.


I was then able to report the issue properly and make a complain where I could send screenshots of the issue and I had a call with people from apple. I told them that it’s absurd that this issue isn’t fixed when people have been complaining about this since the iPhone 13 was realised, and the dude from apple replies “I’m sorry that you think it’s an issue”… (!!!!!!!)


It’s ridiculous that a phone’s camera in 2022 has an auto adjustment that you can’t turn off. Makes ZERO sense.

Jan 6, 2024 12:40 PM in response to lecomoura

To turn off Auto-Enhance or edit photos on an iPhone using the built-in Photos app, follow these steps:


  1. Open Photos App: Launch the "Photos" app on your iPhone.
  2. Select Photo: Choose the photo you want to edit by tapping on it.
  3. Tap "Edit": Once the photo is open, tap the "Edit" button located in the top-right corner of the screen. It looks like three horizontal sliders.
  4. Adjustments and Filters: If Auto-Enhance is enabled, you might see automatic adjustments applied to the photo. To turn off Auto-Enhance or manually adjust settings:
    • Tap the "Magic Wand" icon at the top of the editing options (this is the Auto-Enhance feature).
    • If it's currently on, tap it again to turn off Auto-Enhance. The icon should become white instead of blue.
  1. Manual Editing: To make manual adjustments:
    • Tap the sliders icon (three overlapping circles) to access manual editing options.
    • Adjust settings like Light, Color, and B&W (if applicable) by sliding your finger left or right on the screen.
  1. Undo Changes: If you've made changes and want to revert to the original, tap "Cancel" to discard the edits.
  2. Save Changes: Once you're satisfied with the edits, tap "Done" to save the changes.

This process allows you to turn off Auto-Enhance and manually edit your photos using the native Photos app on your iPhone, providing more control over the final look of your images.

For More visit : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254875560?answerId=260033687022&sortBy=best#260033687022


Apr 2, 2024 6:06 PM in response to lecomoura

Auto Enhance is just disgusting. I try to take product shots to use on my online stores, but nothing is true to color. I don’t dare take group shots of different color variants. Otherwise, I have to take it into Photoshop and mask out each product to individually color correct each one. I’ve tried shooting on dark and light backgrounds with a gray card and nothing works. Every darker color is brightened for some reason. Even my RAW images seem to be brighter and don’t come near true color when white balance is adjusted. It takes far too much effort to get my photos to be color correct.


We need a way to turn Auto Enhance off. We need control over HOW it corrects if we decide to turn it on. We need to be able to take color accurate photos that need only minimal post work in Photoshop.


I went from an iPhone 10X to the 14 Pro simply because the camera was ‘better’, but I never spent this much time fixing photos from my 10X as I have with this 14 Pro. It’s insane.


None of the ‘fixes’ or workarounds have helped at all for me.


PLEASE, Apple, give us an update to allow us to turn this disaster off or at least let us choose HOW it should ‘enhance’ the shots.


P.S.

Those who say turning off the ‘View Full HDR’ fixes this are out of your minds. If it was only viewing badly on our phones or in our albums, then it would look great on our computers and in our photo editing apps. It doesn’t though. It looks just as awful everywhere it goes. The ‘enhancement’ is built into the image.

Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

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