How can I turn off the deep fusion on 14 Pro Max?

Hey there cynthiapple,

Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities.

For some helpful information and tips that can assist with taking photos and videos on your iPhone, check out this link here: Take great photos and videos - Apple Support

It may also be helpful to try adjusting your iPhone camera's exposure as well, which can help determine how light or dark a photo will appear when captured by your camera. For steps on how to adjust the exposure on your iPhone, take a look at this next resource: Use iPhone camera tools to set up your shot - Apple Support

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. Open Camera.

2. Tap the screen to show the automatic focus area and exposure setting.

3. Tap where you want to move the focus area.

4. Next to the focus area, drag  up or down to adjust the exposure.

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.

On iPhone 11 and later, you can precisely set and lock the exposure for upcoming shots. Tap , tap , then move the slider to adjust the exposure. The exposure locks until the next time you

open Camera. To save the exposure control so it’s not reset when you open Camera, go to Settings  > Camera > Preserve Settings, then turn on Exposure Adjustment.

Let us know if that's able to help.

Have a great day!

I’m also very disappointed with this feature! I do take so many portraits photos and I used to have Iphone 12 promax before my Iphone 14promax, and i hate to admit that my old iphone used to take so much better photos! What is this automatic filter on all the photos!!!!!???? I think they call it deep fusion which you are not able to disable it AT ALL!!!! I hope Apple fix this issue as soon as possible. If this won’t get fixed I will definitely going to replace my Iphone 14 with another phone!

To turn off iphone 14 pro fusion and image enhancement simply swipe or drag the white big camera button left when taking a picture. This action will disable the fusion image enhancement feature before the camera takes each picture.

I’m in the same boat as you! I only upgrade my phone for the camera, and the most important use of my phone camera is my jewelry photos. I am so deeply disappointed and frustrated.

We need to have control of the Deep Fusion. It only ruins the photos.

We purchased 2 of these phones because they were recommended for the quality of the pics. We had never used iphones in the past so we thought we would get great photos. They are the WORST images of most phones we have had in past. We have tried everything to correct what deep fusion is doing and nothing works well. Unfortunately we will have to go back to Samsung if they don't have a fix for the Iphone.

Its so bad! Apple has become like any other tech company in many ways. One of them is forcing their ideas on to their consumers!

My photos look like animation!

Only solution is RAW and then adobe light room and save original. I bet they gonna take that option away in the next software update or new iPhone !

The problem with this is that you loose HEIC format, it will save JPG with more compression.

I think maybe deep fusion is disabled in the case you cover the lens you are not using.