iPhone 15 Pro / Max camera blurry and won't focus

Hi,

I also experience problems with the iphone 15 Pro Max camera. My wife is a beekeeper so the phone is critical for her to take pictures of the frames and later on zoom in and inspect them closer. With the iphone 13 Pro and iphone 13 pro max we could simply point and click and later on zoom in and see amazing details.

But today I helped her and took pictures with the iphone 15 Pro max and these images look terrible. You can't zoom in everythings gets blurry. This is nowhere near the iphone 13 pro quality. My wife demands now that I get rid of this %$#!& iphone 15 pro and get her the iphone 13 pro again. This is not acceptable.

I tried to play with settings (even I should not have to) and disabled macro control, lens correction, prioritize faster shooting and portraits in photo mode and it did not help at all. There is something seriously wrong with the iphone 15 pro and pro max camera.

Same here, I used to make gorgeous photos of bugs on flowers. Also using the Seek or Plant Net app to identify some bugs. Now I have a Iphone 15 pro and even the regular camera can’t focus closely on small things. The camera switches without wanting to another lens so totally missing the item I want to capture! When I go further away and then zoom in it won’t focus correctly! This never happened with my previous IPhone 11. This is a rip off Apple

iPhone 15 pro camera won’t focus on anything close on any 3rd party app (Snapchat, etc) : r/iphone (reddit.com) - SO MANY PPL ARE REPORTING THIS.

I don’t think the apps have access. I can focus very closely when it’s the camera app. But not any 3rd party apps.

The native Notes app also can't focus using the Scan Document option, but focuses fine using Take Photo or Video option. Very frustrating...

Hey, I can’t believe that I found a solution.

just put the exposure on -0.3 (under exposure by 0.3) and the photos get a perfect focus.

I hope this will help everyone that have that problem.

No way! It doesn't work!

Minimal focus distance... This is the problem...

Whatsapp is pure trash app.

Telegram do this job very well.

When moving very close to an object, Telegram changes to the right camera.

Oh gawd. My first FB Live with the 15pm and it was crap. Blurry. I had to hold the phone so far from the items I was attempting to show up close. I felt like I was using a 6s. Please tell me this is user error.

This is totally unhelpful none of these trouble shoots are work. 15Pro max camera is absolutely AWFUL. My iPhone X camera was much better than this one! Rear facing is atrocious but I am not a selfie taker (although it sucks that FaceTime and livestreams will look terrible), so I don’t care so much about that; but the front facing!!!!😭😭😭😱 SO SO BAD!

I am very versed in and skilled with the camera and camera settings on both Apple and Samsung phones and I have tried everything. It’s just simply a poor quality camera. I am so disappointed

I ended up opening a case & after several escalation was a on the phone with someone who agreed this was an issue & offered to escalate to Dev; right when they were in the middle of guiding me to collect diagnostics our call was disconnected. The person I ended up talking to after calling back tried to argue that the behavior I described (blurry pics when using Scan Documents in Notes) was actually expected, working as (incredibly poorly) designed. I didn't want to argue how ludicrous that was & left on a note that they would contact Dev anyway & get back. No news so far...

I too and having trouble with blurry and pixelated photos as well as trying to read QR codes. After multiple calls to Apple I had them send me a new phone bc I thought I just got a lemon after seeing other peoples 15 pro photos. This phone is doing the same as the previous 😟

not sure what to do…

Same problem. I switched from iPhone 13 Mini to iPhone 15 Pro mainly for the camera, but I'm totally disappointed. The photos are often slightly blurry and faded, even with manual focus (autofocus often gets the wrong subject) and searching on the web I'm not the only one to have this problem. Furthermore, third-party apps do not support the macro and this makes it impossible to scan QR codes or documents.

If I went back I would have kept the 13 Mini or switched to the S24 Ultra.

I hope it's a software problem that they will solve (and that it's not a hardware problem with the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max)

I find the close-up / macro shots to be consistently blurry and the 5x zoom on the Pro Max to be grainy. I expected a lot more from this camera. It is very disappointing, considering the much older Huawei P40 Pro produces much better photographs. Can I get a refund Apple?

I have the same issue with my iphone 15 pro since Nov 2023. I called them many times and they connected me to many “senior advisors” who would eventually ghost me!

only about a month ago one pf them had the courage to tell me that Apple’s technical engineering team respond to this was that I should contact every single app provider and tell them that they should change their software so it becomes compatible with iPhone!!!!

That’s the support they claim they have. I have bought iPhones only since smart phones become a thing but unfortunately I will never do it again.