The photos on my iPhone 15 are coming out blurry and dark, any advice?

So i went this morning get a refound of my 15 pro max, I hate the frontal camera pictures, and i checked on the desk samples and they had all the same. One of the seller tried to explain me that it’s like taking a picture with a reflex analog camera. And today in the era of Instagram and the selfies you can not have this kind of results, that gives you horrible skin problems. Sorry Apple but you need to rethink that, I will wait one better and keep my 11 pro or look for a samsung.

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Here’s my stupid question. When I buy an iPhone 15 and I take a photograph at night time, why am I trying to figure out what setting to put it on. How come my phone can’t figure that out. I’m not happy with this iPhone 15

Maybe you need a simpler phone, which doesn't have different cameras for different scenes and settings? As iPhone as matured, the cameras have become more complex and do require the user to choose the right camera and settings to get the best photo. What you seem to suggest you'd rather have is a phone, which has less complex cameras. Which is fine. But that doesn't make the cameras on modern iPhones bad.

Im not an Idiot lol, I bought this IPhone cause you had an option to choose the log file and color it yourself after. The thing is the frontal camera to take selfies the end picture looks less good for me than my IPhone 11 pro. The light is darker, skin looks bad and the quality doesn’t seem better but less good, even if the quality look better I could understand but it’s Not! And my father as the iPhone 15 pro max i did the sane picture with same lightning I ask several persons wich one were there favorite, and they all responded the 11 pro without knowing wich one was it from the 15 pro. So ..

Carol B. wrote:

Thanks for the links, lobsterghost1. I just ordered my iPhone 15 Pro and plan to go thru those links to learn all I can about the new phone!!

You're very welcome! There are some great video tutorials on taking the best photos with iPhone you can watch on YouTube as well. Enjoy the 15 Pro when it arrives!

Carol B. wrote:

Thanks for the links, lobsterghost1. I just ordered my iPhone 15 Pro and plan to go thru those links to learn all I can about the new phone!!

It is an absolutely awesome phone! I got mine on launch day and am still absurdly pleased with it.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Carol B. wrote:

Thanks for the links, lobsterghost1. I just ordered my iPhone 15 Pro and plan to go thru those links to learn all I can about the new phone!!

It is an absolutely awesome phone! I got mine on launch day and am still absurdly pleased with it.

Indeed it is. And if I thought my 14 Pro Max cameras were good (which they were) the 15 Pro Max is even better!

My photos look great on my camera roll but when I go to move them anywhere, (text, screen shot, Instagram or other social media) the image looks dull and dark. I use photos as my main way to promote my business and this has me heartbroken as my time to refund has passed.

Hmmm, maybe I’m confused, but I just set up my phone and was able to take photos. It never asked me how I wanted them saved.

Do you mean which mode am I shooting in? The photos I take both in portrait mode and live are behaving this way when I go to use them in anything other than my camera roll.

Yes Apple Store Genius Bar appt yesterday resulted in them saying nothing is wrong with my device. And I agree the photos look AMAZING in my camera roll.

Its like the HDR gets turned off whenever I try to transfer my photo in any way

That’s the whole point haha none of them will look correct. Let me try though.

sidenote I found this thread that exactly explains my dilemma but it had no reply’s to it.

Major iPhone HDR Issue - Apple Community

I’ve spent 20 minutes attempting to upload photos. Screen shots are all that I’m able to upload in this forum for some reason, and those aren’t helpful I don’t think but here’s one anyways

my attempts to upload the original aren’t working. I keep getting an error message

If you're taking full size images, there is a size limit on the forum. But that screen shot looks amazing, tbh.

And honestly, I don't think there's anything wrong with your iPhone. I think the issue you're experiencing is with the forums you're posting photos too. I don't think they've been optimized to handle the metadata of the photos you're trying to upload to them. You can't fix that. They're downgrading your photos when you upload them.

This is not an uncommon issue with forums like Instagram and Facebook as two examples.

It looks much better and true to life in my camera roll. My 11 Pro Max never had this issue with being able to upload and have them look the same.

If it was an issue with the platforms I’m uploading to, wouldn’t they still look the same if I screen shot and view in my phone? Or email to myself and view on

my phone? Any of these things are changing the appearance of the photo.

It’s not just Instagram. It’s anywhere I try to send the photo. Even emailing it to myself and viewing on the same phone.

I hear you about reaching out, but my main issue is that no matter where I send the photo, it looks darker and more drab than in real life. The 11 didn’t do this.