Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

I use app PS Express for photos and ProMovie for videos. When I take pictures there, there is no post edit!

i found if you shoot raw and then edit it will use the original image and not the ****** auto edit version.

I HAVE A SOLUTION! If you take all photos live, once Apple auto-changes your lighting… you can then edit the photo & choose to edit the “live” portion of the photo, swipe to change the main frame- & either change the main frame- which it won’t auto-adjust (but it will be blurry once u save it) OR just screenshot the frame you want (in its natural color without being blurry). Second option is best effective & I’ve been doing it for a year now.

This is still an issue with the 14’s (which I had no idea it was a thing before upgrading from my XR)

my kids don’t even look like themselves in the photos thanks to these adjustments

please considering submitting a ‘report a problem’ to apple engineers maybe they’ll finally listen and update software to exclude this

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I found a way to help with this problem! So first you go to your photo and it has to be Live Photo. Go to edit and press live and if you scroll it go back to normal. Take a screen shot and crop it. 👍🏻

Shoot it as a Live Photo then go into Edit, hit the Live Photo icon, and change the key photo. That should remove the processing.

Right?! It makes a huge difference when you use the burst option. Im glad I could help!

Go to settings, photos, turn off “View Full HDR”

not exactly the best solution but try taking a screenshot just before the auto-enhancement happens, it worked for me

I have the iPhone 12 Pro so I'm not sure if it's the same for newer models but if you go to settings and turn off scene detection under the camera I'm pretty sure it turns off the auto enhancement.

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.

I actually switched to RAW and edit it in Snapseed. It makes me crazy spend so much time making acceptable picture. I even tried to use other then apple camera app (moment) but it is way slow in focus.

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 :)

glorisette wrote:

@apple

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

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I 100% agree with you. Part of what this auto enhancement thing does is de-noise the photos because Apple doesn’t want you to see how noisy their cameras really are. Then it adds a crap ton of sharpening to try to compensate for this. This is why you end up with the mosaic and less detail. Apple will not allow you to turn it off because then people who don’t know what they’re talking about will say the iPhone camera is too noisy. In my opinion, I’d rather have the noise or, dare I ask, THE CHOICE.