Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

the only solution to prevent auto enhance is by using brust mode then keep only favorite 🫡

always keep live photos on and change the key frame to the frame right before the original and there won’t be an auto filter

Rtdread wrote:

Please fix this Apple

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These settings worked for me on iPhone 14 Pro

Turn off Apple Pro Res

Camera> Formats > proRAW on > 48MP

Photos: Turn off full HDR

They are absolutely 101% aware of this happening. I used to work as a teir 2 tech and trainer for Apple. The second a tech hears “Deep Fusion” they should know exactly what that means. Also, “mosaic photo issue”. I have spoken with multiple techs and what comes out of some of their mouths is unbelievable.

I’m not sure actually where Apple gets off “automatically” blanket applying “enhancement” filters to every single photo, including RAW format but the goal is very simple and much like music recording. When recording music you want to start with a clean flat EQ uncolored signal that is gained properly. THEN you may choose to add color, efx, etc.

It’s like being handed a flattened photoshop file.. no way to make layer edits now.

So Apple makes home repairs impossible, cannot access the inside without voiding the warranty, can’t replace a battery, can’t upgrade memory, and now….. they’re choosing how all of your photos look for you.

The last rep I spoke with offered up this genius piece of advice.. “Sir you are welcome to go to apple.com/feedback and voice your concerns.”

Yeah lady, if I were going to take it that route I’d draft a well written open letter to Apple and see how many thousands of people to sign it, see how many tech and photo publications would run my letter for the love of what’s right.

Here’s all Apple has to do to fix this woeful business: Create an update.. hardware/firmware/software? to update the current version of ios and make this auto enhancement algorithm able to TURN OFF.

C’mon Apple jeez!!

All the solutions people suggest are only ways to somehow by-pass the problem, but they aren’t solutions.

I tried

1. Using burst mode on the louder button
2. RAW
3. Portrait mode which always has been terrible - people look like puppets
4. Using another frame of a Live Photo. This works but a blurry photo shouldn’t be the solution.

Example: I made a picture of a fruit shake, which naturally looks soft. The post-processing enhanced all the shadows, highlights, and details like bubbles and grains so much that it looks like a glass of pink concrete. Like a very bad HDR. The “auto-enhance” enhances details in people’s faces so much, that they end up looking older (as every soft detail like soft wrinkles are enhanced) and the photo just doesn’t look natural (as every contour is strongly enhanced).

I am thinking of returning the phone, but if the issue isn’t fixed I won’t ever decide for Apple again. I am a hobby photographer, and like to use my phone in situations in which I don’t have my DSLR. I really regret deciding for Apple and not android.

Apple, please let your users turn off the post-processing! The post-processed photos look like an amateur tried to use photoshop, to create an HDR. In case this is done to compete in camera tests, it’s not an user-focused approach.

Same issue of course with 13 pro Max. Issue is so bad that I consider switching to Samsung or Pixel. Looks like Samsung going forward and Apple backward in camera processing. The only temporary solution I found is burst or live photo (with change default frame) - but this is absolutely not acceptable because that way you get rid of over sharpening and over HDRing : but you also LOST DETAILS.

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.

I have the same issue in my 13 Pro Max!!! That’s terrible! I don’t like that. Only the solution that I found is take screenshot on camera app 😅💔. This need to be fix by apple!

If you’ve taken the photo as a Live Photo you can change the key photo and it won’t be anto enhanced. This is auto enhance is so annoying! sad face!

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.

Apple knows there’s a problem. Apple’s unfortunate propaganda that garish colors with automatic irreversible post editing looks great is bad karma. Customers should not have to get a third party app to fix the deficit.

We all paid for an expensive phone with a flawed camera.

if it is a chip problem then a recall for replacement could be a financial tipping point(?) There is no reason to delay a software fix. I really dislike the situation. I’ve been an IPhone loyalist for years.

Using the 13 pro camera is tedious with dismal results . Apple is showing us that they have weighed the situation and it’s not profitable to fix the problems right now.

For me it’s: “Oh so Pro must Go”

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 $.

I have the same issue on my iPhone 13 Pro. When taking a photo, few seconds after I take the photo it automatically enhances the photo making it look over exposed, over saturation, washed out and peoples faces become less

sharp. It seems to be worse in bright back light outdoor photos with people in the photo.  Every time I speak to someone

at Apple, they state they are not aware of the problem and that I need to make my complaint on the apple feedback forum. But you also get a different answer from every customer care person. I told them all they have to do is open up google, there are so many complaints about this issue its crazy how they have not come up with a fix! They noted, making the complaint to customer care begins and ends with that call. Customer care does not escalate the concerns.  I just recently switched from being an android user for many years and am super disappointed in Apples response and lack of concerns for the mess of photos I am now getting.  As of today, customer care has no idea if a fix is even in the works and their simple answer is “I am sorry.”  Such a disappointment all the way around!

This isn’t an issue with the photo nor does it have to do with Live Photos. There is an option under Settings > Photos called “View Full HDR” which disables this feature. With it enabled, iOS enhances the picture on the fly.