iPhone 15 Pro Max Photos Blurry

I already went to apple and they agreed my photos are blurry, but wouldn't swap the phone or replace lenses/camera etc. Seems like I just got played by apple, buying a $1000+ phone with no camera capabilities. If the issue isn't resolved I will be switching to android which I didn't really want to do, but why should I be loyal to a company that played me and won't make it right?

to add to this, I have been using my iPad in place of my phone for macro shots. Since my photos go into the cloud and are shared between devices, I'm able to view photos on my iPad that were taken with my 15 pro. It's astonishing how blurry the photos look on the bigger screen. Truly unacceptable camera quality.

You said your 15 pro max takes great pictures. Can you say this about your front camera as well.

i bought my phone just two weeks ago directly at Apple Store and I too am getting Grainy selfie photos

it looks good on screen before you take it and then photo self corrects and looks bad on clicked photo.

front display has a screen guard from Apple but that’s same on my old iPhone 13 Pro and that doesn’t have this problem

can anyone confirm thier front camera doesn’t take grainy pics so it’s even worth trying a replacement

First of all, I don't take photos with my front facing "selfie" camera. It was never intended to be a camera for anything other than selfies and video calls. For what it was designed to be, it does a fine job. If I want to take a good photo, I use the rear cameras, which are specifically designed to take the best photos. The front camera is a small aperture camera with its stated purpose, which is just fine for that purpose. Expecting it to take photos anywhere near the quality of the rear cameras is expecting too much.

(This is not in response to Lobsterghost. It's a response to the person who posted a wide shot of water on page one of these comments.) The shot you show is a wide shot. We're complaining about the 77-115 range (see Tony Northup's chart above).

The camera of an iphone 15 pro max is not like a simple camera that takes easy shots for you, you need to read the manual and set the camera, so if that's something you find difficult to do you should get a different iPhone, or an easy camera

I had a 13 pro max which I was satisfied with.

upgradede to 15 pro max JUST FOR THE CAMERA.

picure quality for anything but 1/2x and 1x is so bad I can hardly describe.

been to a Genius Bar and they told me this is a common complaint.

wait.. what? seriously?

I bought several dozens apple products and this one is such a big disappointment that I question apple now.

Same problem here. A few days ago I switched from iPhone 13 Mini to iPhone 15 Pro especially for the camera but the photos are significantly worse.

They are often blurry, poorly defined, even if the subject is still.

The autofocus often misses the subject, and it is almost impossible to take click-and-shoot photos that are good.

I'm highly disappointed, if I went back I would have kept the iPhone 13 Mini (spectacular phone).

I hope they resolve it with some updates (hoping it's a software problem and not hardware).

I changed my Iphone from 13 pro max to 15 pro max a week ago.

I face blur quality picture through portraits even with changing settings to 48MP

Whenever While making the portrait the picture quality is very awesome but when I clicked the Picture then the picture portrait quality is very blurry n not having sharp or cool skin tone.

After update to 17.4 the issue not resolved till yet.

I compared with friend’s 12 pro max and his portrait picture quality is much better on 1x n 2x with same camera setting but iphone 15 pro max portrait has very bad quality picture ?

How to resolve this issue ?

Is this is hardware issue ?

I changed my Iphone from 13 pro max to 15 pro max a week ago.

I face blur quality picture through portraits even with changing settings to 48MP

Whenever While making the portrait the picture quality is very awesome but when I clicked the Picture then the picture portrait quality is very blurry n not having sharp or cool skin tone.

After update to 17.4 the issue not resolved till yet.

I compared with friend’s 12 pro max and his portrait picture quality is much better on 1x n 2x with same camera setting but iphone 15 pro max portrait has very bad quality picture ?

How to resolve this issue ?

Is this is hardware issue ?

I held off on an upgrade for the past 4 years, and this 15ProMax is by FAR a worse camera than anything I’ve used in the last 10 years. With video, I feel like I’m back to 512k pics. I take pics and videos of dogs and have done so for a couple decades. The white dogs are particularly horrible.. just washed out. Anything moving, even in full sun, is pixelated and absolutely embarrassing to send to clients. I’m past my initial return period. How can they get something THIS WRONG?!

Thanks! I feel like you saved me a bunch of steps. Please follow up here and let me know how it goes. I’m in the same boat and considering returning to my 2 year old phone.

Ugh yeah it’s super annoying. I’m doing an express exchange so I’ll see if the new phone has the same problem

Easy solution- when you take the photo instead of clicking the white dot swipe it towards the left- mine solved the blurry dark photos

Apple is working on that and a few other problems