iPhone 15 front camera issues

Same here …is there any solution ? I hate my pictures . My face looks grey , SMOKY , grainy ans blurry ! Apple i’m very disappointed hope you’re going to fix this asap , it’s terrible ! My 14 pro max was far better

For the love of god, address this issue and release a software update that fixes this!

I’m a designer and being in the creative industry i could notice the grainy, oversharpened bad photo quality immediately. Why the supposed top tier phone in the market takes horrendous selfie pictures? You’re doing your loyal customers dirty and your reputation will not be the same after this.

I completely agree. When I’m taking a photo, it looks great looking at it from my camera. But the minute I look at it the photo it’s blurry, greyed out, and just looking washed out.

I thought it was a camera setting I messed up or something and went looking for answers on the web and unfortunately came across this thread. It’s so terrible that apple would do this.

Couldnt agree more, the front camera and at times the back camera as well is pathetic and terrible word is an understatement.

it completely destroys the picture and makes it look uglier- far away from reality. Apple please work on getting it fixed asap

Same here. My iPhone 12 had better quality than this new iPhone 15. Apple needs to do something about this situation.

I switched to iPhone for it's camera and after paying so much the new IPhone 15 is disappointing! Can't believe apple hasn't fixed this yet. So many new updates came but this should be a priority. The front camera takes pictures like Samsung. Please fix this NOW!

I think I SOLVED this. READ BELOW

I bought the iPhone like 2 months ago, and tried everything, believe me everything. I even have like 10 apps that take photos and compared everything. I'll here write a "guide" to kind of solve this nightmare.

(However, APPLE SHOULD KNOW THIS IS NOT OK. Clearly people who don't like taking photos don't care about the camera, but we, who like taking selfies sometimes, are so disappointed).

Well.

1- At the settings, search "View full HDR". Let me explain: this is an option that comes by default activated. I thought this did nothing but it actually does. A month ago I tried that solution but I didn't like it. Today I understood... View Full HDR is just a thing made for the native iPhone Photos App. So, actually the horrible selfie you are seeing in the photos app is "not that horrible" if you find the photo via instagram's photos gallery. (But it's still horrible). First step is deactivating View full HDR.

Test it yourself like this: go to a place in your house with a nice light, (not direct sun) but a sunny day maybe. Take a selfie, and a milisecond after that, take a screenshot also.

If you have View full HDR activated, the screenshot and the photo will look VERY different. But if you deactivate it, it will start looking a little better.

Take into account that, since this is as I said, something for the Photos App; deactivating it will show photos the way they would actually upload in instagram. (So, for me, it's a good idea to deactivate it) (Activate it just for landscapes).

2- OK, now that you deactivated the fullHDR, also, let's adjust the exposure on the camera app. Go to the cam, and touch the little triangle. Then touch de + - icon and put more or less +0,7

(The idea is having this forever, so in the configuration of the iPhone camera you should activate Preserve configuration of Exposure Adjustment).

This will take more lively photos and your skin won't look grey.

3- Ok now that we have done those steps, go to settings again and in Camera/formats activate ProRaw control.

Now, before taking the selfie, make sure you hit the button "RAW". (You can also preserve this in settings).

We're done.

Conclusion: Now take selfies like that:

RAW + no view full hdr + exposure 0,7

This way, the photos will look very veryyy similar to what you see before taking them.

You may try comparing your "fixed selfies" to selfies took in Instagram. Both of them may now look nice.

The instagram ones a little darker maybe, because in ur photos app you have a little more exposure.

OPTIONAL WORKAROUNDS

a- Take videos instead of selfies

b- Use a third party app. I like Yamera

c- Take selfies in Portrait mode and put studio light. Modify the amount to your wish.

d- Take selfies without doing anything I said, but after taking them, put edit, and push the button above on the left, the one that looks like an hexagon so you can add "studio light" to your pic. This will make it look nicer.

NICE APPS TO HAVE and edit the photos a little more (Strongly suggested)

Lightroom, Peach, SODA

APPLE: PLEASE JUST MAKE THE SELFIES LOOK LIKE THEY LOOK ON THE SCREEN BEFORE TAKING THEM.

Whenever I open the camera, the quality looks fine, but after capturing the picture, it turns out terrible. The picture has a grainy and noisy appearance even in good lighting. When I compare the iPhone 12's front camera with the iPhone 15, the better quality comes from the iPhone 12. I don't know what it is, but it seems like Apple may have compromised the front camera quality this time.

Please solve this problem #apple

Same with me.i bought I phone 15 thinking that it will have best camera performance.honestly I got utterly disappointed with reality. All my selfies are terribly pathetic.photos are getting washed out. Faces are looking terribly ugly.my years old Samsung doing great job when I am comparing it with this costly phone.

Try taking the photos in RAW format, and also, deactivate in configuration of Photos app: View Full HDR.

That solves it a little.

Also, you can try: activating prioritize faster shooting; and activating volume up for burst photos. Then take ur photos by holding the volume up. They will look 90% like u were seeing on the screen, but they will loose a bit of quality.

Also, you can try, taking them without RAW (default format), but before taking them you put exposure up to 0,7. (and have view Full HDR deactivated in configuration of Photos app).

However, these are temporary solutions, Apple should fix this ASAP

I am facing same issue. Don’t understand why such bad quality after taking selfies. My mid range phone selfies are far better.

Spend a lot for iPhone 15 for a worst front camera. Totally disappointed. I request apple to release software update for this

Very disappointed by front camera of iphone 15pro max ,its worst camera in the world waste of money ,a 10dollar smart phone selfie camera is better than this expensive 1300 dollars camera.no reply from apple to all complainers this is really terrible for iphone lovers.apple should fix front camera other wise top trend on twitter and all social plateforms as a worst ever front camera in the world and people will return and no one can buy to waste his money.waiting for fix front camera issue and raising complain to all plateforms.

is your issue sorted off. please tell me what to do. even i face this problem

same problem here iPhone 15 camera is very bad, Maybe too much settings. Daylight inside the house Pics are all grainy or underexposed…

My iPhone 12 was way better … just simply hit the button and pics were perfect without any special attention…same with evening pics are all perfect with iPhone 12.. I’m very disappointed

Selfie camera also lagging, when you press button, it makes photo after 3-5 seconds or so, it happens not all the time, but specially on night mode. Apple please fix selfie camera lagging and grainy, noisy quality.