iPhone 15 Pro Photos are Dark

To be honest, this is a general issue with iPhones. It’s present in my iPhone 12 and I’ve seen people talking about the same here from older models to now 15’s.

Now, apple 🍏 thinks they are best camera phones. In fact, iPhone is good only for taking videos. Photos aren’t that great. iPhone doesn’t recognise subjects in various scenarios and try to over process with their HDr. Hence making subjects darker in most photos. For fair skinned people this might not be issue. But for others this turns out to be a serious one as they become more darker than they already is. !!

I had a iPhone 11 and even that camera took better photos. The iPhone 15 pro is making my photos look grainy or very dark. I look 20 years older. So I tried the burst photos you hold the photo button and immediately swipe left and it stops this. But Apple HAVE TO change this because it looks awful. Only reason for getting this phone was the rave about the camera for it just to be awful!!!!!😤

Iphone 15 pro max, photos are terrible, blurry and dark, overprocessd to 'watercolor' effect. Portraits are ugly, macros are dark and blurry. Problem is in the software, postprocessing in camera, hope Apple will solve it. RAW should be unprocessed at all, this is the idea of RAW. Instead, they are as ugly as jpeg. Terrible

You can notify Apple of that issue in the community report page. They’re more likely to fix it if they are aware multiple people are having the issue. Link: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

I am using a screen protector. First time I’ve used one. Maybe I should remove it and see if it makes a difference.

I’ve just tried turning HDR off in settings for photos as suggested by some here and think it’s helped a bit. Thanks

You have to go on settings and click on “photo” then turn off the HDR button.

I also have this issue, i opened a case with apple support and even sent in a screen recording of how the picture changes from before it’s taken to how dark and grainy it goes after. They escalated to the engineers and i received a call back today and was told that this is normal for the iPhone 15 pro max camera. So apparently we all just have phones with horrible camera’s. I do agree my 12 pro max took 100x better pictures and i do regret upgrading before i tested it out. SMH!

Hello! I have been following this thread for a few days, I am sooo disappointed with my camera and how the photos (particularly ones taken of my kids/people) darken and just look so generally terrible compared to how it looks in the window before I take them, I have called Apple also, the advisor screen shared with me and could see the difference between what I saw when I took the photo vs the resulting photo.. all she could suggest was waiting to see if a software update fixed the problem or downgrading to a previous model of phone.. I am so upset about this..! Where are you going to go from here?? Are we just supposed to accept this is our camera/quality of photos..?

You can go to Camera settings>preserve settings> and toggle on creative control

then back to your camera and adjust the light settings (exposure), open advanced settings tapping the top arrow, select the +- round icon adjust it using the slider, the settings will be saved when you open the camera again

If they replace it it’s going to be the same camera. This issue started with the iPhone 14 Pro. It’s how they have the settings/software programmed. Another iPhone 15 Pro is not going to change it or improve it. They would have to distribute a software update to fix the camera issue. It’s really a bummer considering the price we pay for these devices!

There is no fix at this time. It’s a software issue with iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro. At this point the only thing we can do is send a bug report to Apple. You can do that here: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Hi Cail, There’s no way to fix the issue from a user standpoint. It’s not a setting we can control. This bug needs to be fixed by Apple. You can submit a bug report or request for a fix here: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Hopefully they’ll end up addressing it if enough people provide feedback.

Hey, I posted yesterday but not sure if you’ve seen it but would love to know your thoughts please… i dont know if im just getting used to the bad quality but i think the pics look better after the phone has had a little time to process the image.. i took a pic and an hour later went to check it and it looked better… if you take a pic today, and check it in about an hour please could you confirm if its any better please?

They could definitely fix it with a software update. However they don’t usually fix things unless there’s enough complaints. Have you submitted your feedback yet? You can do so here: Feedback - iPhone - Apple