iPhone 15 Pro Max Photos Blurry

I don’t think you can see the manufacturing date of the phone (it’s the battery date shown). I have my original iPhone 15 Pro Max that I received on launch day and have never had any of the issues mentioned (nor have I had any camera issues on any of my previous Pro Max devices despite every year it seems to be an influx of posts about how terrible the current model camera is). That’s not to say some of you aren’t having issues but I definitely can’t say I have experienced any of it or seen it with any other iPhones in my household or from friends and family with them so it’s just not something I can replicate.

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’m wondering if the lenses or if some mechanism is wearing out prematurely? Seems like my pro max worked better new - than it does now.

I remember trying to enable options as the quality of my images declined.

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

(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).

I'm not sure who else you're responding to, if not me. I did post a water scene, taken with the 1x camera. But here's a close up of a Christmas Ornament I took on my Tree. I think it's pretty amazing:

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

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?!

Eight months after your post, obviously they have not fixed it. I just got mine. The pictures are horrible. Very grainy and blurry. They need to fix this, especially considering we paid a mortgage payment for the thing. This was taken from about 8 feet away, so it's not like I was up close.

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.