iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Blurry and Out of Focus

No. I’ve tried everything. Different settings, inside, outside, light conditions - all basically a complete disaster. I can’t believe Apple didn’t see this in all their testing. Or maybe this is some units only? I don’t know but will soon give up and return the unit.

I visited store I show them my problem and they said that this is software bug wait for update ! But nothing happened with software update now I don’t understand what to do because I purchased this phone one month ago , in this condition they will give me replacement or return??

It’s not a diagnostic or setting issue unfortunately. I’ve gone through the same process. And erased all my data from the phone to see if there was a hardware issue. It isn’t. For some reason it is just how the camera is on the 14 & 15… I wish I would have known before buying as well. Hopefully they come up with a fix. :/

Judging by what everyone here is saying, it does not seem like asking for a new phone is going to help the issue. It appears to be somewhat widespread. But, if you do go get another replacement, please let us know if it makes a difference!

Same here. I’m coming from a 13 Pro Max where pictures were extra sharp and crispy. These pictures aren’t up to Apple standards. Purchasing the high end model of a brand shouldn’t have to turn into the worst experience for end consumers.

Fix this ?

15 Pro max here, and i have the same issue, no matter how perfect lighting is the picture is low quality/blurry compared to my old 13 pro... So disappointing.

and no, the new ios 17.2 did not help....

I sell a lot of items on eBay and take tons of photos regularly. I’ve noticed the iPhone 15 pro max photos are extremely grainy. I just bought this phone a couple weeks ago and it’s disappointing. Further away photos seem ok but when I really need to zoom in on detail it’s very grainy. Personally I think my iPhone 12 Pro Max had better quality when zooming in. I hope apple fixes this

True! Facing this issue since 2 month , nobody is understand what problem we are facing! And I notice that our problem is getting ignored ! Something is wrong with camera no doubt….also when we are speaking about it our comments got deleted

this is how camera takes grainy shots ! I showed them this shot too, and what they are saying that this is normal nothing is wrong with this photos 😊

The bottom line is keeping up and reading the post back-and-forth, and no matter what I do. The images on the promax are fuzzy. It doesn’t matter what setting you create or how you shoot them. They are fuzzy it could be a micro shot versus a distant shot. They are fuzzy. The raw photo format is junk.

But was it the same optical zoom? You can't tell without looking at the photo info unless it was .5x or 1x, and even then, what resolution?

At 24 MP on the iPhone 15 Pro Max, a photo may seem "grainier" but that's actually detail being lost as compared to a photo at 12 MP or below.

There are myriad factors that need to be taken into account, including ISO setting and shutter speed.

My iphone 13 pro took much better photos without issue in portrait mode. I photograph things for my business and this is absolutely unacceptable, has apple figured out whats going on here? The 15pro is disappointing with portrait mode, i never had these issues with my 13 pro , look at how grainy the images are

My iPhone 8 Plus took better pictures than my new 15 pro max. My back camera is blurry or air brushed when objects are close. And the front camera is just terrible. It also air brushes. Could an update fix this?

I ended up buying another 13 Pro, here is an example of what i was dealing with on the 15 pro, portrait mode . Again i'm sure the 15 pro cam must be much better but i guess you need to really learn how to set up the shot & settings in different lighting as opposed to the 13 pro which all i do is point & shoot without too many complicated know hows. Apple really needs to fix this.

That is an insane difference. I agree with what you are saying. I just want to point and shoot with my phone. I don't want to have to worry about making settings different each time I take pictures. I am not a professional photographer, but to be honest if I was looking to take more professional quality pictures I woud probably use my Nikon. Taking photos for my website was easy with my 12P, with my 15PM the picture quality is just inferior. I really wish I didn't have to trade in my old 12P to get the 15PM.

I disagree with that. Since I've bought the 15 Pro, I've probably already taken 100 photos of people and at most every second one of them is really sharp, rather less.

I've had many iPhones before (3GS/4S/5/6S/XS/13Pro) and none of them were so unreliable for portraits. Maybe I'm being very picky, but even without zooming, it's immediately obvious to me if the eyes aren't 100% sharp in portraits.

But i´m feeling happy for you when you don´t have any issues.