iPhone 14 Pro Stock Camera takes Blurry Photos

Every photo I have taken of anything moving, even slightly, is blurry. I still have my iPhone 12 Pro and have taken the same picture side by side and the 12 photo is not blurry at all. All of the settings are the same. Planning to return the 14 Pro. Anyone else experiencing this?

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 16

Posted on Sep 24, 2022 7:05 AM

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Posted on Jan 7, 2023 2:57 PM

I’m having the same issues with the 14Pro camera. I was told I could return the iPhone 14Pro or wait for Apple to optimize the camera software as the current solution. The problem I am told byApple support is that the software processing is optimized for 12MP sensor and not the new 48MP sensor… yet..That’s why the iPhone 11-13 camera takes better photos when using it as a quick point and shoot.

For now in the Apple camera app, hold still, frame your shot, touch the screen to set focus and set exposure for a great photo.

The default camera app also over sharpens, evens exposure across the frame, and adds lightening to all areas and especially to faces in the image after 1-2 seconds. That’s why your sunset picture may look great when you take the shot but then is overly processed and the colors are washed out when stored.

If you don’t like the over processed images, you can use a 3rd party camera app until Apple is able to optimize the processing.

Hope this helps.


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Jan 7, 2023 3:47 PM in response to JonTygers

It's actually entertaining, there are now videos on the Internet complaining that compared to the 13, the 14 doesn't enhance photos enough.


Apple can't win; people no longer want photos to look like what they see, they want their photos to look like what they think a photo should look like based on what they've seen on IG and elsewhere.


Here's an article discussing it from an Android point of view:


https://www.androidauthority.com/what-is-computational-photography-3218656/


Jan 11, 2023 2:36 AM in response to Dogcow-Moof

Agreed, which is why I bought it (and from apple) and updated before using it fully.


I hadn’t known about the blurry camera issues until I had the problem myself, then found others reported online.

I had seen some about issues while using certain apps but believed they’d been addressed and were with apps I don’t use anyway.

I’d consider buying one again but only once I know the blurry camera issues were sorted.


To be honest I’d prefer a smaller sized phone, perhaps with less squared edges as well, so might wait and see what they come up with next.

Back to the 2020 SE until whenever that is.

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