iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Blurry and Out of Focus

How is your storage capacity. Many people have an overload of photos that tax the phones storage that need uploaded to I cloud? The main thing is to ck the storage to see what to do next. An overload of a ton of apps?- undeleted mail-messages that have piled up with pictures? But I bet you’re okay cause so many are complaining about i ph 15 pictures and all of you seem knowledgeable with this phone. Has Apple responded to this? They must be losing a lot of money. I have not seen anything or even a sorry for your troubles with a solution. Like an absent landlord. I have put off an upgrade indefinitely until I see apple is showing some care and a solution. Good luck!

I return my iPhone 15 Pro Max and stay with my 11 Pro Max. The 11 Pro Max has better battery / efficiency, better camera in certain conditions, feels way better in my hands, better sound quality. I was happy to change after 4 years, but I am amazed (in a bad way) how little has changed. Apple Support was completely useless. There was obvious hardware damage on the main camera and they don't even care. In my opinion: Price/Value is bad since iPhone 14 - at least for the Pro-Models. Sad to see drop in support and product quality. Tested 13 Pro Max from a friend vs. 15 Pro Max and yeah the 15 Pro Max has some better photos, but some pictures are way worse. USB-C doesn't work with the original Apple Thunderbolt-Cable I use to run my Macbook Air on big display. iPhone just doesn't show anything. Another cable worked fine - but total useless to use external display if they don't have a desktop-modus where I can use my keyboard and mouse without problems or changing 100 settings to adapt.

All in all a nice (useless) upgrade. The phone looks good, the functions aren't worth the upgrade (for me).

iPhone 11 Pro Max just feels like its something "finished". iPhone 15 Pro Max feels like it's not fully thought through. Like the "closest focusing distance" of the main camera. There is a gap between main camera lens and the macro-modus. If you shoot photos within that range there will be blurry and unsharp photos (on the edges) as a result. You need to keep more distance to make sharp photos of newspapers, documents, etc. and crop. Same for photographing other close-distance objects.

Worst upgrade in my life. Used apple devices since 2012 and I'm now looking at options outside the apple realm.

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If you really want to upgrade from an iPhone 11 Pro Max (or lower), I would suggest to have a look at the iPhone 13 Pro. The biggest gap in differences is closed with that upgrade. There is little change from 13 Pro to 14 Pro to 15 Pro and the 13 Pro has good battery, really good photo quality, good display, good price/value, good speakers, good (enough) CPU.

No luck at the Genius Bar so thank you for this tip!! I turned off the "Portraits in Photo Mode", "Macro Control" and also "Lens Correction" and the front camera photos were more normal. The grainy, out of focus, selfies with grey shadows disappeared. Nothing like spending $1500 for the iPhone 15 PM and spending a week trying to figure out why the camera was worse than my 12 Pro... not sure why these are default settings out of the box.

What a dissapointment! I have been waiting 15PM for months. Since i have no problem with my 13 pro which has been used by me for 1,5 years, I have only decided to upgrade and replace it with 15 pro for its camera. I,ve just opened the brand new box yesterday and I cant even take a selfie. The photos are horrible in front camera!! Blurry, dark, grainy. Apple NEEDS TO FIX THIS IMMEDIATELY!??

THIS ALSO HAPPENS ON ALL IPHONE 15 SERIES. I've just bought 15 pro and opened its box yesterday with a great excitement, and this morning I woke up with a huge disappointment! The camera works worse than Iphone 7!!

I have changed my phone from 13PM to 15PM just for the camera features, and paying this much money. The result was so sad. APPLE please fix this immediately.

I have the I phone 15 plus and my pictures are coming out so blurry and out of focus. When i try and take a selfie with the front camera, everything looks good until I take a picture and look at it. It comes out so dark and blurry:(

Please help apple, i went to apple store genius bar in turkey and they said it wont fix till there will be a new ios update. At least give an information about it, millions of ppl suffering the same camera problem with a huge disssapointment, this is not fair :(

i am suffering the same problem and since I have talked with the Apple support team this morning, they say that it won’t fix because it’s the main feature of the 15 pro series. So I didn’t get why did we change our phones to this model I have never ever captured that much bad selfies:((

Just got my 15 pro max. The picture looks good in the front camera but when we click the selfie, the picture looks horrible. The processing is awful. It also becomes dark, grainy and rough. Horrible experience so far. Feels like money went down the drain. I have tried almost all of the settings but no luck. Anyone know how to fix this? :( My iphone 7 plus captures much better.

When I was chatting to them, they made me take a lot of pictures zoomed in zoomed out digital zoom front camera back camera video. All of it was rubbish and even sent these pictures to them as I was talking hence why they asked me to get a replacement.

What should we be doing to get tit fixed. I have tried everything i even reset the phone. The front camera looks awful. Blemishes on the faces, darker, blurry. And since i have been living in Istanbul I cant replace the phone because I bought it from New york . I am stuck

I had the same experience going to 14pro. It’s seriously disappointing and I felt tricked after I realized how bad it was. Shooting in raw helps some, but you use your storage faster and are not able to use Live Photos.

The only question left for us to ponder is if it’s time to go android. 2 releases with such a basic feature performing so poorly?

I held on to my trusty iphone 7+ until this year where iOS 15.7.9 could no longer work with watchOS 9.

I was never an avid photographer and simple concepts like how times zoom or focal length baffles me. For my normal use case of taking close up shots of static objects, my iphone 7+ was just a simple point, adjust the focus slightly and the pic comes out pretty.

Ever since I “upgraded” to an iPhone 15 Pro Max, I started to think that I have received a lemon. Besides the overheating issue that consistently happywhen I view the photo album and do simple edits like cropping, the problem with 5x zoom lens resulting over exposed and grainy pics totally frustrates me.

I have already factory reset my phone once and none of these problems go away. I waited for iOS 17.1 to be publicly released on October 24th but that never happened either.

I wish I had done more research on the camera issues starting with iphone 14 pro.