How do I fix the selfie camera of my iPhone 15 Pro Max?

POSSIBLE SOLUTION - I had the same issue and happened to stop by the apple store to have my sons issue fixed. The tech compared my 15 Pro Max to his and yes, my pictures looked terrible. He said out of the box the overall camera settings are more geared towards the high powered cameras. He adjusted several settings and although I don't think my camera looked as good as his by comparison, they were 1000 percent better! Perhaps apple should post ideal camera settings for front facing camera or any potential settings to adjust if you're having issues with the selfie cam since many people take as many pictures or more with the front camera as they do with the high powered cameras. Could be a software update later down the road to fix for us "non techies".

I have the same problem too. The selfie photo after clicking has been the the worst. I’ve 15 pro and have been experiencing this issue. How can the newer model have this bad quality when the older models have better?! Terrible software and I wish they fix this issue soon. I’m using Snapchat to click pictures. lol

i have same problem i bought new apple iphone 15 pro and iphone 15. both had same issue. front camera quality is the worst some thing wrong with these phones. i regret of wasting money my 150$ google pixel 6a or old one plus 6 is much better on taking the photos.

Don’t worry guys. I got the replacement phone for the same issue and it’s still the same. The photos are grainy and dull. The quality has gone to the dogs. I use my roommates iPhone 12 Pro to take pictures and selfies. Thank you Apple for releasing a new model with worst functionality.

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!

I am so upset I had an XR so obviously I waited to get a new phone and so was so excited to get the ultimate IPhone 15 Pro max because I heard so much about the camera!!! Any ways $1500 dollars later with accessories I took a selfie and thought that maybe my new makeup was the problem grainy and dark but went on line to find out it is the phone!!!!!! Are u kidding me really probably going to take it back? I’d Samsung the answer????

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).

So much money spent for a front camera that looks horrible !!!!! The over processing is horrible !!!

APPLE you need to address this issue ASAP!!

Its disappointing for so many people who got this phone for its camera to have such a horrible, bad quality, pixeled, grainy photos from the front camera .

Bad to say, but Xiaomi seems to have better quality in its front camera .

unbelievable

PLEASE FIX IT!!

Experiencing exactly the same issue.

Dark, grainy, unnatural photos from the front camera of the IPhone 15 pro.

It’s so disappointing.

Truly disappointing.

We spent so much money for the latest iPhone model and we finally have a front camera which is worse comparing to many older models.

Even the front camera of the IPhone 8 Plus looks much more natural and aesthetically pleasing .

Apple you need to fix this issue and STOP OVER PROCESS PHOTOS !!!!!

Hi guys try increasing the exposure setting before taking the picture. For some reason after taking the picture the picture becomes dull (like some filter is put on - in a bad way) but when you take the picture with exposure increased once the picture is taken and processed it doesn’t dull it down as much. So the picture remains less brighter than the exposure level but still bright. I hope this made sense.

Edit: it really is working 😭😭 The texture and all is so much better. I’m basically taking the picture at the max exposure. Let me know if it works

I got the iPhoje 15 Pro max and this is the worse selfie camera ever!! Never seen anything like this. The picture just turns darker and looks weird. Please don’t bother getting an iPhone 15 Pro Max if quality selfie is what you’re after

Hi Stephanie,

I have the same issue with my front camera. Did you receive any answer from apple?

‘I’m having the same issue.

The picture quality from the selfie camera is unbelievably poor.

Report it to Apple tech support

I tried all the steps but still the same, the selfie photo looks so dull. 😩 disappointing