Turn off Auto-Enhance / edit on iPhone

i just "upgraded" from the iphone xr and wow the phone 13 camera is SEVERELY DISAPPOINTING. just awful post-processing. i'm also surprised by how bad the wide angle lens is even in a bright indoor room. absolute garbage.

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

I took three photos for 3 cats together from their side on Iphone 13 Pro this morning and the Photo Auto Enhance function has consistently changed one of the cats' faces partially to look like a monkey face! Seriously Apple!!!

So disappointed and frustrated that Apple still has no solution to this problem after endless complaints. They clearly don’t care about the customer as long as they keep getting our money. Asking myself why I am still using an iPhone… at this point iMessage and being connected to my other apply products are the only reasons I’m still here. But as the quality continues to go downhill, these reasons aren’t enough to stick it out any longer. The main feature of a phone I care about is the camera, iMessage and the apple ecosystem are less important to me. Somehow they’ve taken an amazing camera and rendered it entirely useless.

I so agree!!! they can do it if they want to if the want to uphold their name. To me with all these complaints that the consumers DON'T like they need to fix it! Because photos is a BIG part of a phone now a days!! And Galaxy is wining by far trust me!

It is the most frustrating feature!!! I have a business making portraits out of felt and when I photograph the art the auto enhance makes every little fiber super detailed and changes the look. In person they look so much better. I have to try and edit the images to look more realistic before sharing on social media. This is ridiculous! Added so much more time when all I want is a photo that I get to decide how it appears. There are no settings that work for every image so nothing should be auto on Apples end. The enhancements on this image make it look horrible and in person the art looks softer and more realistic.

Makes rich, colorful, soft-but detailed photos of my artwork into bright, dull, sharpened crap. I tried all suggested fixes and nothing works. I hate the iphone 13 cameras with a passion. Way too much post-editing. Apple, make it stop! Steve Jobs would not approve.

I am sure Apple knows this issue 😂. But they prefer to keep silence since no solution (that photo processing partly hardware based). I lost my trust in Apple. End of story. Sad I liked my apple watch ultra

Please fix this Apple - it’s utterly terrible and very frustrating. To the point that we are using my partners older iPhone for pictures. This has ruined so many images.

I have seen comparison pics with a Pixel and it’s leagues ahead. Shame Apple can’t let us control our images, or at least have the option. It’s our content!

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!

savon123lynn wrote:

I don’t agree. The whole reason people don’t like the photo is because it looks harsh and sharp. Doing it with burst takes that harshness away.

So, you've made the point that I agree with that this is all a matter of personal preference.

Hope you find the answer you’re looking for.

I wasn't looking for one. But thanks.

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

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:

Product Feedback - Apple

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

Oh man.....Thank you for finding and posting this. This problem was driving me nuts using the stock Apple camera app and the Photos app! I resorted mostly to using the ProCamera app from Cocologics, but there are some features in the Apple camera app that I still like and use so I bounce back to it often, and then see that crazy result in the Photos app with the auto-brightened photos. Finally, with this setting off, freedom! :)

I have an iphone 11 ( I’ve stopped getting new ones because they are just too expensive and frankly I don’t need all those features. I just get refurbished ones on ebay). Even this phone enhances photos. I was trying to capture a really cool moonlight scene and the stupid thing kept enhancing small bits of light coming from other places, thus ruining the photo. I just want the photo to look like what I see.