iPhone 15 Pro Max Camera Blurry and Out of Focus

Hi All,

It seems im not having a very good experience with the new iPhone 15 Pro Max. Coming from a 14 Pro Max the pictures were great. nice and sharp, never had issues with "blur" or "grainy" photo's.

This new iPhone seems to be a downgrade in the photo's it can produce. I'm constantly getting very grainy photo's even with the slightest bit of zoom after the photo has been taken.

I have tried all resolution's etc (12mp, 24mp, 48mp HEIF & Pro Raw.) this has affected th 1x and 5x camera.

My 14 won me a few awards for photo's and consider myself fairly knowledgeable on iPhone Photography. The 15 just isn't putting out good quality images.

All photo's are stored "on device" so there is no iCloud trickery happening.

The below is an example of what I am talking about.

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iPhone 15 Pro Max

Posted on Oct 2, 2023 8:01 PM

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viktoriia198

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Posted on Oct 17, 2023 7:25 AM

I left the comment before and now I solved the problem.

I called to Apple Support, was talking with them, but they could do nothing. Then my good friend, who is working in Apple Support 😉 advised me to recover my iPhone with complete erasure of data. Yes, it’s a big deal, but I did it. Then started iPhone 15PM without using Apple ID and without my data and BINGO! The camera just amazing! Then I erased again and set up it like my iPhone with my iCloud transfer data.

You can reset it through Mac directly. I did it with 3utools.

As my friend said it could be a software error when you transfered your data first time. Sometimes it happens with new iOS and new phones.

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Dec 13, 2023 2:00 PM in response to Doesntmstter

FIXED!!!

OK everyone just wanted to give you an update on my Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max RAW image issues. I spent a good amount of time on a tech-support, shooting various levels of images while they were linked directly to my phone and also desktop. We went through multiple shooting scenarios and they agreed there was definitely an issue. The tech-support for Apple set me up with an appointment at our local Apple dealer. Met with them yesterday they ran a basic diagnostics that showed that the camera group was Not functioning correctly. They changed out the camber group and I’ve been testing the camera since. As of now, the issue with raw imagery seems to be fixed. The quality of the coming through at high resolution are fantastic. So if you are like me, and you may have been one of the early preorders and first deliveries for the iPhone 15 Pro Max then you may have a phone with a bad camera set. go online to tech-support. Give them access to your phone while you were shooting something and let them clearly see there is an issue. They will run through various photo set up scenarios and formatting. They will also try to run diagnostics and come up empty. At that point, they will set you up with an appointment with an Apple retailer to look at the phone in more depth. by the way, PS,,, with the early phones having screen issues scratching very quickly and easily. I also had them change the screen while they were already in the phone. They did this at no additional charge. Thank you Apple.

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