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

I'm facing the same exact issue. My final pictures doesn't come as near as my viewport image. It over sharpens, over exposes, washes, etc.. It annoys the heck out of me, specially because this Phone cost me almost the same price as a FREAKING CAR in my country.

Please, Apple, you need to fix this ASAP!!!

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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My exposure fluctuates wildly during a video. Even after manually setting the exposure it’ll jump back to over exposed a few seconds later. It makes the camera unusable for videos. The problem does not exist when using the Instagram or Snapchat camera - only the iOS native camera

I am so sick of this! Many months people complaining, and Apple just doesn't care about us! In my country these phones are super ultra-expensive! I got deal on Black Friday and got the iPhone 14, but still not cheap at all. I used to have the SE 2020 but got water damaged, so had to replace it, and I chose the latest model thinking I would have the best camera I could get. What a surprise when I took the first selfie! Super horrible over sharpening, looked great while taking it, but when you go check it out in Photos it does some crazy post and ruins everything! Apple what is wrong with you???!!!! I bet this can be solved with an update, just do it ASAP! Please! I feel ripped off! :c

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.

You see, as I'm reading all of this, having also the same experience as everyone here o worst, I don't know if it is everyone that has this issue with the iPhone 14, but just think to myself: "Is Apple really purposedly turning a blind eye to this terrible mistake, and won't offer a solution ASAP with an update or something?". I mean, it is obviously software related, knowing that we can see a really good quality while taking the picture, but after we go check it out in Photos, we then see it get broken by some kind of after processing...

I DID turn off the HDR setting in the very beginning. The pictures are horrible. I upgraded to a 14 Pro Max from a 11 Pro Max. Went from taking excellent pictures to garage.

I even had a professional photographer ask me what kind of camera I was using when I had my 11 Pro Max. Now I am just embarrassed

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.

Guys the figured out what went wrong it’s in the camera settings, if you prefer to capture selfies exactly as they appear in the Camera app preview, you can.

All you need to do is turn on the Mirror Front Camera option in the Composition section of the Camera app’s settings. With this option turned on, your selfies will look exactly as you see them in the preview.

I had the 12 pro max and was AMAZING, best camera ever, now I upgraded to 14 pro max and was the biggest mistake, I’m so sad with my cameras, it’s over exposure, ashy, without life, it’s horrible, such a expensive phone for nothing.

Big problem with all iphone 14, whenever we take photo and when we open in the photos aap it proces the photo and changes its quality to very dull too sharp and contrast which look very bad. Apple need to resolve it otherwise all the assets are waste.

It helps a bit, but it doesnt solve the problem of horrible post processing occuring right after you took the photo, its very noticable, just a second after you view the photo ios applies atrocious post processing

I agree. I upgraded from an 11 Pro Max to a 14 Pro Max purely for the improved camera and I much prefer the photos I took with the older phone. I wish I had not bought the 14 Pro Max. Apple please fix this problem.

Pixel between those 2 is the best option I think, I have seen the nothing phone pictures and they're still lacking... But yeah, I can't believe nobody from Apple hasn't reached into this forum yet, even though we have 1.5K of "Me too" already and lots of replies. I can't believe I paid this kind of money to have the iPhone 14 and get this in return, a complete mess of a post after taking the picture. As others have said, I also tried the live photo method, then choosing another main one, and that is kind of a workaround. But it is impossible to do that in bulk, and even so, the fact only of having to do that sickens me...

Ok so what has worked personally for me on the 14 Pro are the three things listed down below that resulted in a much better overall camera experience. Experiment with them and see what works for you.

a)Turn on ProRAW if you are a baller and got the 1TB storage. (Easiest option)

b) Keep live photos on when taking pictures. Then, when you are viewing the pictures in the photos app, on the top left, click on the option live and select off. You'll immediately see a difference where the phone will give you a much closer photo to how it was in the viewfinder. If you prefer the super contrasty and HDR-ish look in some scenes then just shoot normally without live and you'll get that style of photo.

c) In addition to the above 2 steps, turn on one of the photographic styles by swiping up in the camera app and clicking the 3 frames icon. Select a photographic style that you want for example, rich contrast then turn the intensity all the way down to 1 or 0 if you don't want it to change the way your photos come out. That should take care of some of the oversharpening in the photos.

I know this is not ideal and that we shouldn't have to tinker around so much to get decent looking pictures from a $1000 phone but what can you do. This is my first iPhone as well and coming from Android I thought this would be the most stable bug free experience but we all know how iOS 16 has been. It has improved but definitely not the buttery smooth experience that iPhones were known for.

Hope this helps!