iPhone 14 pro max Poor camera performance

Exactly the same poor quality results in photos taken inside the house.

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Everyone affected by this video problem with iphone 14promax should demand Apple for a fix or exchange to another phone. We paid too much

Same issue with video and taking photos. Too many blurry sections on the video and too many blurry photos. Never had this issue with the 11 pro max I previously used. It is definitely a hardware problem. I can touch the screen telling the camera to focus in that area and the whole photo is blurry. Or I can be filming video and it will go blurry then come back to focus. It is frustrating.

Learn iPhone camera basics - Apple Support

Learn about Photographic Styles, QuickTake, Action mode, the Ultra Wide camera, and other camera features on your iPhone.

Understand About the Camera features on your iPhone - Apple Support (IN)

By default, iPhone takes photos in HDR (for the rear camera and the front camera) when it’s most effective. iPhone 12 models, iPhone 13 models, and iPhone 14 models, record video in HDR to capture true-to-life colour and contrast.

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The camera modes built into your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch help you take the ideal photo or video. Swipe left or right on the camera screen to switch to a different mode. You can choose from photo, video, time-lapse, slo-mo, square, Portrait, and pano modes.

For this, you may Use camera modes on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

With the Camera on models that support Portrait mode, you can apply a depth-of-field effect that keeps your subject—people, pets, objects, and more—sharp while creating a beautifully blurred foreground and background. You can apply and adjust different lighting effects to your Portrait mode photos, and on iPhone X and later, you can even take a selfie in Portrait mode.

Learn how to --> Take Portrait mode photos with your iPhone camera

Learn about advanced Camera features that let you capture photos faster, apply tailored and enhanced looks to your photos, and view content outside the camera frame.

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Use the Camera to record videos and QuickTake videos on your iPhone. Learn how to change modes to take Cinematic, slow-motion, and time-lapse videos.

Here you can see an Apple Article with all video recording options --> Record videos with your iPhone camera - Apple Support

Taking tips from here may also help you. --> Tutorials | iPhone Photography School

Adjust the camera’s focus and exposure

Before you take a photo, the iPhone camera automatically sets the focus and exposure, and face detection balances the exposure across many faces. If you want to manually adjust the focus and exposure, do the following:

1. Tap the screen to show the automatic focus area and exposure setting.
2. Tap where you want to move the focus area.
3. Next to the focus area, drag  up or down to adjust the exposure.
4. To lock your manual focus and exposure settings for upcoming shots, touch and hold the focus area until you see AE/AF Lock; tap the screen to unlock settings.

If your Photos and Videos are stored in iCloud and you share it before downloading the original then it may appear blurry but it is not.

Your photos and videos are stored on your device in their original, high-resolution version. This means that they use a lot of space on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. With iCloud Photos, you can make more space available on your device and have your entire collection, everywhere you go.

Get started with iCloud Photos:

1. Tap Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos.
2. Turn on iCloud Photos.
3. Select Optimize iPhone Storage to save space on your device.
4. 

With Optimize Storage, smaller, space-saving photos and videos are kept on your device while all of your original, full-resolution versions are stored in iCloud. And as long as you have enough space in iCloud, you can store as many photos and videos as you want.

Same issue. I want my iPhone 11 Pro back. Better quality on videos. Upgraded and spent money on crappy performance. If apple doesn’t fix this I may just go back to a Samsung phone. My business relies on video clips. iPhone 14 pro max video quality sucks. I have to retake footage multiple times to get a decent video.

So I am also having camera issues. Mine comes with artificial lighting. In sunlight, my video & photo quality is fantastic, mostly. But in artificial light, I get (and this is the only way I know how to describe it) lines or shadows running vertically across my screen from left to right. It looks terrible. I am a content creator and use my phone to take videos and photos, so this is extremely inconvenient… especially since I have a day job and often don’t have a chance to film in natural lighting.

I have the promax and I don’t think the cameras very good at night at all like trying to take the moon I had better luck with my 11 believe it or not with night vision…

I see much better camera photos from ones like the Google pixel and especially the Samsung 23 takes excellent moonshot.. I stuck with the Apple camera and it’s not worth a **** at night shut the daytime stuff comes out they spent most cameras can take daytime pictures without screwing them up.. kind of disappointed in the telephoto lens didn’t do such a hot job🤷‍♂️

I am glad on one level to hear I am not the only one with bad camera performance. Compared to my old phone it seems to take 3-5 seconds to “wake up” and be ready to take pictures. Also have problem with selecting focus areas and very blurry images. Missed a lot of photos I would have easily got with my 11 max. Very disappointed with the camera still after 5 months.

I have the same issue as my iPhone 14 Pro Max camera photos are very poor in quality. Even worse than low end Samsung phone. I should have checked this before buying the camera. Is Apple going to give any solution for this - from QLd, Australia

I have the same problem:

1. when I start filming it gets blurry at some point
2. I take a simple photo, gets blurry
3. I try to scan qrs through the apps, get blurry so I can’t!
4. Portrait photos are worst than ever

This is so frustrating since I payed U$D 1350 for this and Apple isn’t giving a solution as it’s definitely a hardware problem.

Given how much software is now a part of the camera hardware, I'd hope there is an easier fix available. I think trying to be too fancy with "features" on a camera is not what most people want. High resolution, good quality and above all reliability is what I want in a camera on my phone.

The sad part is that my iPhone XSMax (that I traded up from) was by far a much more reliable camera. I know "reliability" updates are not what sells a camera but they make existing customers very, very happy.

I’m having the same blurry video issue but am wondering if it has anything to do with the screen protector I have over the three lenses. I haven’t tried taking it off because it takes some effort to get it off and put it back on.