iPhone 14 pro max camera issues

So I got the iPhone 14 pro max and I am in love with everything about it except it has one of the biggest problems; the camera. I thought it was just me but a lot of people have been complaining about it and apple has not fixed this issue or updated it in a software update. I had an iPhone XR and I can’t believe I’m saying this but the camera is so much better for me than an iPhone 14 pro max. I have had the 14 for a month now and still don’t use it for pictures which defeats the whole process of me upgrading to an iPhone 14 pro max. I am so disappointed in this phone and am even thinking of returning it and buying another XR for storage purposes which is why I had to update.

There were loads of issues with the camera at first that and I have managed to sort a lot of these problems out but I’m so sick of it.

At first the iPhone kept changing my pictures, I would take a picture and it would look a certain way and then as soon as I clicked on the photo to check it’d change completely; the colour, saturation, pixels, definition and looked so dull, greyish and grainy. The pictures are far too over exposed and I don’t like the Deep Fusion feature at all. I could see all my pores and everything that even a human eye cannot see. I understand why because it’s an advanced camera but apple should have created a way to turn this off completely and it should have been the default setting.

Some of the things I did to fix this include:

• turning my hdr off - improved image a lot but not fully
• turned of lens correction - didn’t do anything for me either
• putting on Live Photo and making the non edited version the key photo
• screenshooting the camera
• using burst and then choosing the picture that hasn’t been edited

but the problem is these are not permanent fixes and are only temporary; I shouldn’t have to do all this for a normal picture. I tried raw pictures and it didn’t help, there’s not one thing I’ve tried that has fully fixed this problem.

The next problem I faced was with the camera constantly switching + not focusing. I actually found a solution to this thanks to YouTube videos and the internet; you have to put on macro controls on and then turn it off when you’re taking pictures or videos so your camera doesn’t switch automatically. This is also so annoying and just an extra hassle, I have gone to conserved settings and kept it so it won’t change but it’s such an irritating feature. The wide 0.5 camera is such bad quality and completely ruins my 0.5 pictures so I’ve stopped using it all together.

Also, I faced major issues with the colour differences between the XR and the new iPhone 14 pro max. I noticed massive changes to the tones and how yellow and red the iPhone 14 is in comparison to the XR. It’s unrealistic and so disappointing. I tried changing the saturation but it just makes the pictures look even more unrealistic. It’s nothing close to reality because I even compared it to the normal iPhone 14 and iPhone 13 and all the cameras have their own tint and colour. I just want my iPhone 14s front camera and back camera to be the same as my XR. I have tried all sorts; changing saturation, changing the photographic styles and night mode but it doesn’t improve the quality of image at all; just makes it worse. none of the pictures I’ve taken on the 14 look as good as the XR. Even the sky + leaves look dull which is so weird because sometimes the pictures look over saturated when taking them but when you look at it camera roll they’re so dull and look the complete opposite to what they looked like before. There’s no balance at all. My XR camera makes everything look soo good and doesn’t change the quality of pictures or videos but the iPhone 14 needs very specific lighting and other conditions to even look decent.

I’m so upset about this because I genuinely wanted to love the iPhone 14 pro max and I do except from all these camera issues that apple is not fixing. The dynamic island is my favourite thing and the size of the iPhone. I have tried every single setting and updated my phone to the latest software yet nothing is improving and I don’t think apple will be fixing this issue so I may have to downgrade back to my XR or an 11 where these problems don’t exist.