iPhone 15 Pro Max Photos Blurry

Any updates on this?

Me and my wife are both coming from iPhone 11 Pro which had amazing camera, both our iPhones 15 Pro Max take blurry, out of focus pictures, even in full sunlight.

Is this something that started with iPhone 14 and new, bigger camera sensor and is normal for all 15’s or is there something with our both 15s Pro max?

Same issue. It looks so good when camera is open but the actual photos are awful! I screen recorded to compare what it looks like on screen compared to the photo and it’s a joke. Regretting upgrading this is ridiculous.

I am facing the same issue with my brand new 15 pro max 512 GB, I have found a way that fixes it. Going into the settings > Camera > photo mode > change to 12 mp.

The selfies on the 12 mp setting look a 100 times better than with the 24 mp option turned on. Hope this helps some of you guys! And apple please fix it, this is laughable stuff from such an expensive device

Did you get it figured out? I’m having same issue. Chatting with apple care chat now and they are running diagnostics, said I may need to go to store to return phone. Wondering if anyone who has returned phone had better luck with the new replacement phone….

Apple needs to do a recall… like car problems…

It does take fantastic photos as long as you use the wide lens and the tele lens, but not the mid-range. I had same blurry results on the new iPhone 15 Pro Max I bought. I'm a pro photographer for thirty years. Never seen the iPhone fail to find focus (on a page with lines on it three feet away), or turn mushy clarity in the mid range lenses. It's horrible. Worse than the iPhone 14. Tony Northrup shows you why at 8:38 minutes in on his YouTube https://youtu.be/AsRmEc26Yc4?si=o6oPbwIy_e6ERvZI

I have the same problem, I was taking pictures of some of my friends sheets and I found out that my 1 day old 15 PM is less sharp than my Xs… I don’t get why!

i switched between my cameras and settings nothing is ok.

when you zoom next to one of the link you can see that Xs 5 yo old is way better and I don’t know why!

I am having the same issue! I’ve taken video at literally a hundred concerts. The iPhone 15 Pro Max videos and photos are worse than ones that I took with my 6S, and much worse than with my 13. Apple, please help I feel like I own a $1500 brick.

this is an example of video I took last night, remember, I’ve done this 100 times with older phones and never have seen such poor performance.

I had same blurry results on the new iPhone 15 Pro Max I bought. I'm a pro photographer for thirty years. Never seen the iPhone hunt for focus (on a page with lines on it three feet away), or turn mushy clarity in the mid range lenses. It's horrible. I took it back. It's worse than the iPhone 14. It's the first time Apple's disappointed me. They rushed this to market with an obvious flaw. Tony Northrup shows you why at 8:38 minutes in on his YouTube https://youtu.be/AsRmEc26Yc4?si=o6oPbwIy_e6ERvZI

I took my iPhone 15 back to the Apple store to alert them of this flaw. Kevin, the manager at the Pasadena Apple store, tried to debunk everything I brought up. I showed him the Northrup video. Didn't glance at it. He said there are plenty of positive reviews on the internet and it's just the same old thing that happens every year when Apple releases something new. A bunch of guys criticize the product and it's just what they do. Not this time. This is a FLAW. There are not FLAWS allowed at $1,500. What I wanted him to say was that Apple was aware of it and there's a fix coming in January of 2024. But he continued to dismiss the issue. The store did give me a refund but it's not the money. It's the fact that Apple would rush a product to market with flaws. The Apple engineers have done remarkably well for decades. The pressure must be intense. I guess I can allow them one stumble. (I hope the marketing department is not starting to run the show at the expense of a great product.) I hope the next iPhone hits the mark next year. Meantime, I'm buying an iPhone 13 Pro Max off the internet to replace the one I traded in when I got the 15. And I'll spend the $1500. on a lens for my Canon mirrorless for telephoto shots.

Same here!! The iPhone 15 Pro Max's camera doesn't give the expected result. The image has a terrible quality, the photo is pixelated and grainy, it costs too much to focus the lenses correctly. It is impossible to take photos of documents in which all the text is clearly read, blurs the edges of the text and is only sharp in the center. It's really annoying and problematic the issue of the focus and the graininess of the photo, I come from an iPhone X that takes photos with better sharpness quality than the iPhone 15 Pro Max. For me the camera is indispensable and I'm having a very bad experience. Selfies aren't good either, the photo shown in the preview is beautiful and once you take it, it changes to grayish tones and starts to look grainy as well. Please solve this situation, it is very worrying, it's terrifying to think that it's hardware issues.

I have the exact same issue.

At the moment, I have my old iPhone 14 Pro, so I was able to compare them side by side. The difference was huge.

Took them both into the Apple store, they verified the issue and said 'wow, that's weird', hemmed and hawed for a couple hours, told to me to call Apple support, then sent me on my way.

Called Apple support 20 minutes later. Support rep also verified the issue when I pointed it out to her. More hemming, and then get told my options are to do a return (without an authorization hold), or do a DFU-level restore and not restore old data to it.

I love everything else about the phone, so I chose the latter. Aaaaand the issue is still there. Great. My support contact gave me an escalation line to use for the return process, so I used it, and then was told that I would need to do an express replacement, which would put an authorization hold on my card of choice. 🤦

I was also told that my only other option was to go through Verizon for a replacement

So YMMV, but definitely try

I had same blurry results on the new iPhone 15 Pro Max I bought. I'm a pro photographer for thirty years. Never seen the iPhone hunt for focus (on a page with lines on it three feet away), or turn mushy clarity in the mid range lenses. It's horrible. Worse than the iPhone 14. Tony Northrup shows you why at 8:38 minutes in on his YouTube https://youtu.be/AsRmEc26Yc4?si=o6oPbwIy_e6ERvZI

Asking Apple to resolve anything here on this user to user only forum, which Apple doesn't participate in, is not going to get you anything.

My iPhone 15 Pro Max takes outstanding pictures. It would be one thing if every iPhone 15 Pro Max had a camera issue, that is not the case (we have 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, neither has any cameras issues), waiting for a fix, which isn't effecting everyone isn't very likely.

Instead, I'd schedule an appointment at your Apple Store Genius Bar and show your phone to Apple for testing.

What improved this issue for me was changing my camera settings format from “most compatible” to “high efficiency”. I noticed that my new phone was shooting jpgs instead of heics when I airdropped pics to my computer to compare them to my old phone bc they were so horrendous. I also tried turning off “portraits in photo mode” but upon further testing, it was the format that made the difference for me. Hope this improves the issue for someone else