It seems that whenever I take pictures even if front of bright light, the iPhone 15 pro max camera dulls it. The processed picture is never as bright the way it was in the picture! My iPhone 11 preserves the bright light but it seems as if the 15 pro max dulls it so it’s never as bright. Is there a way this could be changed???
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I found a solution to the front camera issue with iPhone 15.
I recently upgraded my iPhone XR to an iPhone 15 pro and I was really excited about it, expecting it to be a lot better than my old XR. However, turns out the iPhone 15 pro is a big disappointment, especially the front camera. You hold your iphone in front of you and everything looks good, you take the picture and...it looks compeltely different from what you just saw on the screen before taking the picture. The picture looks grey, dull, grainy, and way to overprossesed. I honestly like my XR selfies way better than my 15 pro selfies. So I was thinking about returning my 15 pro and keeping my XR. There does not seem to be any real solution to this, I have tried everything (I thought), taking a screen-shot, using burst, editing the photo afterwards as people have suggested, but nothing seems to really work. The good news is I found a solution. So here comes the guide.
1. You go into settings and search for camera
2. Search for camera
3. Choose formats
4. Click on ProRaW & Resolution Control
5. It doesn‘t matter if you choose HEIF Max, ProRaw 12 MP or ProRaw Max (up to 48 MP) in Pro Default
6. Go into the camera app and turn the front camera on
7. You will se „RAW12“ in the upper right corner, make sure this is on
8. Take a photo
9. Click on the photo
10. It says RAW in the upper left corner now and not portrait
11. Now the photo will still look the same (overprocessed, grey, and grainy)
12. Now choose edit
13. And you will see the photo change and become that raw photo you actually took, it will now look like it did on the screen before you took the photo
14. However you cannot save the photo yet
15. You have to choose adjust and then choose one of the features (exposure, brightness, saturation) it does not matter which one you choose, then adjust to only 1
16. You will not be able to see an adjustment going from 0 to 1
17. But now you can save the photo
18. And there you go, you now have that raw photo you actually took without all that weird processing going on after you take the photo and it will look nearly identical to what you see on the screen before you take the photo (and it looks much more like my iphone XR selfies, just slightly better)
19. It might not be as sharp, but than can easily be adjusted if you edit the photo
So there you go. I am thinking about keeping my iphone 15 pro now, the back camera is very good. I hope this helps for you too.
(I still think videos taken with the front camera lack some color though, I haven't found a solution to this yet, other than editing).
Same issue here. Upgraded from a 12 Pro to a 15 pro max for the camera and very disappointed in the quality. Selfies are blurry and the regular camera itself just isn't what I would consider and upgrade. One thing I did notice is that the screensaver I have for the 15 Pro Max which I bought through the Apple Store, covers the whole face of the phone and the camera. Could that have anything to do with the quality of selfies? I never had an issue with selfies with the 12 pro.
Bought Iphone 15 pro 2 weeks ago and got the same issue! Selfie camera is terrible. After taking a picture there is some post processing which makes picture looks ugly and dark and dull. I'm using iphones from version 4 and never had such experience before. On Iphone XS, 11 and 12 didnt notice that behaviour. Also battery life on new device is annoying, on lte and normal usage only web, apps and zero games at 8pm you get like 10%. From iOS 17 all bad things started.
There will be any response from apple? If not till end of month Im returning that -> iphone 15 pro.
Not waste your money on that.
The iphone 15’s front camera is very bad. The image always turn out to be dark and dull though taken in good light. But using the same front camera in other apps like snapchat doesn’t lessen the image quality. It’s only happening with the actual camera. I also have an XR which is taking better selfies than 15. I have completely stopped clicking pictures. This is very disappointing. Please fix this issue ASAP!
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Same with my 13pro. Specially night photos or low light . They look like paintings. My old 6s took better photos overall . It’s the HDR they have implemented since the iPhone 12
i recently bought an iphone 15 pro. Even i have this issue. The front camera is really bad - photos are dark and grainy. this is really an issue which is being highlighted in other apple forums and on reddit as well.
i couldn't fix it with any changes in settings.
I have the same problem with the front camera, it's terribly blurry and not of a quality level . that even the iPhone X I had was better, even on Instagram the photo comes out with a hum of bright lighting, sometimes it helps and sometimes it goes back to being blurry. Also in video calls there is blurring. The company I bought from even changed me to a new phone because they thought the camera was faulty, I thought the problem would indeed be solved but unfortunately it wasn't. I am very disappointed that I bought the phone and am not able to enjoy it, I am only busy with the bureaucracy with the supplier and there is no answer. I would appreciate an answer on what Apple can do about it.
I have the 15 pro and my pictures come out horrible. I’m so shocked at apple with this new camera for the 15. I should’ve kept my iPhone X. The pictures came out way better. No matter how nice the sun/lighting is at that time you take the picture, it’s still going to come out dull, grainy or overly sharp looking. There’s no beauty or softness to these photos from the iPhone 15 pro. I regret buying this phone.
I have the same problem, I bought the new Iphone 15 pro max 3 days ago, it is my first Iphone I was excited about it, then my excitement was turned into disappointment when I tried the camera which is the reason why I bought the iphone with around $2000 here in Morocco, the quality after taking the photo is trash, before taking it looks pretty good but after the shot, the quality drops in an unexpected way, it makes you look so dull and ages you by years, a $80 phone would have taken better selfies. I hope it is a software issue that apple would solve with an update asap. All this made me so frustrated, and felt like i was cheated.
I have the same problem, I bought the new Iphone 15 pro max 3 days ago, it is my first Iphone I was excited about it, then my excitement was turned into disappointment the quality after taking the photo is unbelievably poor, before taking the shot it looks pretty good in the viewfinder, but after the taking shot, the quality drops in an unexpected way, it makes you look so dull and ages you by years. I hope it is a software issue that apple would solve with an update asap. All this made me so frustrated, and felt like i was cheated.
I could see that my 15 plus selfie camera images are turning way darker once the photo is clicked. It gives clean bright image before clicking. Once the photo is taken the photo turns darker and the background goes bright. Seems after processing the photo turns dark. Any settings to correct this? Please provide suggestions.
Thank you
Honestly it’s terrible, I bought this phone upgrading from a 12 X and was so excited to have a new phone with better photos for a big international trip. And now they’re worst than my older phone by far. So upset about this, it’s ridiculous.
I have the exact same problem. I bought my iPhone 15 Pro at an Apple store when travelling in Miami but I live in Argentina and cannot return it. I hope they fix this with a software upgrade because the quality of the front camera is just awful.
I just bought the iphone 15 pro max last week and am so disappointed with the selfie camera. The pics on my 11 were much better than this. Everything I have taken on the 15 pro max is dark and grainy and distorted. Horrible. Why is this happening? Apple, will you fix? I now hate my new phone.
How do I fix the selfie camera of my iPhone 15 Pro Max?
