How to fix overexposure issues on iPhone 14 Pro Max Photos?

Preach! I TRIED to return mine and go back to an older iphone and they would only replace for another 14 pro. Worst purchase of my life. To think, I bought it FOR the camera. Talk about false advertising.

I’m having the same issue with the iPhone 15! Why wouldn’t they have fixed this issue !!

Same here, 1TB team. I'm lucky I love shooting in raw and I use diverse number of camera pps, but I bought a severely expensive phone and I need it to work exectly as it was intended to work. I hate to see my selfies beeing over processed like that. I've trid switching every setting on and off and this issue persists.

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The camera processing is so awful. Just got mine yesterday and wished I’d seen these reviews before hand. Apple is really dropping the ball here. I’m most likely going to return this phone and keep my 12 pro max. So disappointed, but the camera just looks like garbage.

I bought an Iphone 14 on Oct. 2023. The camera is not good at all. Pictures are overexposed, the color is way too intense, and some details when photographing up close are too exaggerated. Don't bother taking nature shots especially at sunset it will look like psychedelic sky. Have to constantly edit my photos and even then they don't look good. APPLE FIX THIS. these phone are too expensive to have such a poor camera. I have resorted to using my old SE5 second gen for my camera and transferring my pics to my computer to edit. Very disappointing can't recommend buying this iphone.

I have been speaking to apple about this issue for hours + weeks and they are acknowledging that it does process the images but claims this is working "as expected" and shared this link with me Feedback - Camera - Apple encouraging me to share and tell people on these forums to report their issue to that link as they claim not many have the issue.

I'd also like to add a genius bar employee saw it happening on floor models too and agreed it was poor quality.

If you are experiencing over or under exposure in either the Photo Mode or Portrait Mode, check your exposure compensation (EC) setting, icon below. There is a separate EC for photo mode and portrait mode. If you intentionally or accidentally set this off of zero, the offset will stay until you physically reset it to zero. Any offset will show up in the upper left of your screen with the mini histogram. Click on the histogram to open EXC and reset.

No guarantees, but this may solve your problem.

OMG

this happened to my iPhone 14 pro max which is only 3 day new ,but even the camera was like moving and blurry , when i record something i was asked to send the iPhone to technical support which i don't think it would help, my old iPhone XR has better way better selfie the picture too sharp ugly freaking ugly. camera not to mention the iphone screen warm tones which way too warm and annoying.

i really wanted to love this phone but it just did not i think i well return it and get the Iphone 13 pro max.

and to the other problem the big freaking problem that i did not see anyone talks about it which is when we take a selfie how far like the face is comparing to other iPhone .

I miss when iphone had the best camera

and no i dont have to go to edit the pic to get a good one i want to take a good pic as i used to.

I agree. When I see the number of posts on this and other forums having this same camera issue, it does seem that Apple has just chosen to ignore it. Sadly I’m now seeing people that have the iPhone15 having the same problems.

The only thing that helped me was switching back and forth through portrait mode and photo mode. Doing Live Photos helps also because you can use the frame that’s not so over processed. No matter what, these tweaks are very annoying and frustrating to even have to do in the first place but that’s the only things that’s worked for me. Here’s a great example of a food photo I took. In person, the calamari is golden brown and in photos it looks overly highlighted, doesn’t even look like it does in person. And not appetizing. And I thought I took a great photo when I first viewed it in my camera

Sorry, but you don't seem to understand the problem. While you compare side by side the same scenes on iPhone 11 Pro Max (even 12 PM and 13 PM) and 14 Pro Max, there are huge difference. HDR on the iPhone 14 Pro became very hard, overexposed, lights are lighter, shadows are darker.

P.S. On the iPhone 14 Pro there is NO more SmartHDR button. We can't switch HDR off. I found workaround. Making photos in RAW and then using Automator shortcut, which converts it to JPEG/HIEF (much more smaller!) – is a solution. But we want standart format also :( Without any shamanism to get perfect result.

Here is example of oversharping by iPhone 14 Pro Max in comparison with iPhone 13 Pro Max (see full video)

I also tried turning off HDR. I see no discernible difference. Images still look awful.

Way unhappy. Have been trying to take pictures of some wildlife. Which I have done for years with my 11 pro Max. Pictures look fine when I take them when when go to view them they are so grainy at times it’s even unable to tell what you took a picture of. At this point I am not happy I spent $1400 on a new 14 Pro Max and gave my 11 Pro Max to a happy family member.

what’s up?

I’m having the same issue. I have the 14 Pro Space Black. Strangely, my wife has the Gold version and hers has no issues. Attaching two photos to compare.

Space Black

Gold

same problem for me too. Over processing is spoiling the camera. Photos look way different from viewfinder.

Is there a way we can stop the auto enhancing or processing of photos? Any specific setting for this?