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.
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iPhone 15
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.
Same. This issue intentional. In video recording or video call they look okay (though bit too edited). But while taking selfie (before capturing) it looks barely okay (still not good). After capturing the photo skin becomes darker, wrinkly and spotty.
they intentionally didn’t add the processing algorithm for selfie. I don’t understand why. Now I only use it to take scenic pictures. Can’t wait to ditch this phone.
I recently bought the iphone 15 pro max because I thought my 14 had a problem since after taking a selfie the photo would immediately become dark and grainy. I’m so disappointed because it seems all the iphones above 13 have the exact same problem. For god’s sake should we be buying iphone 11 & 12 with better front cameras ? This needs to be fixed asap .
is your issue sorted off. please tell me what to do. even i face this problem
Fix your phone camera exposure. Doing that fixed my phone photos!
I can't understand how there is no fix to this. Like the photos come out bad only in selfie mode. And the people taking the selfies and coming out hideous are the ones shelling out for your products. It's fully not okay, are we entitled to return the phone as faulty?
@Apple Can this issue be addressed! It’s very frustrating having to pay so much for what is supposed to be the best phone in the market only for the front camera to be so terrible! My iPhone 11pro max camera did a way better job and people have been complaining for month! Either recall these phones or create a software fix cause this it’s really bad.
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
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.
Same here, This is my first i phone, and after using its camera and results of the photographs (For which I actually bought the i phone) i am really very much disappointed.
My last Android phone which was launched 7 years back (One Plus 5) had better results compared to this.
Apple should fix this issue as soon as possible. Or we the current iphone 15 users might take a big step for this. None us us would like to waste our huge amount of money against which we are not receiving good quality.
Its a kind request to Apple to please solve this problem asap
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 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
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
This is my first iPhone and I didn’t expect the experience would be this bad. The front camera is worthless. I have an Android phone of Realme 11 pro 5g+ and it takes spectacular selfie. Whereas this $854 iPhone 15 is nothing. I’m really disappointed. No matter how much I tried altering things in the settings, nothing changed that much. Apple really should pay attention to this huge issue.
I’m coming from Samsung to Apple and after this I would never recommend or buy an Apple phone again! There’s so many issues to list, but a horrible front facing camera for a $1500+ phone is unacceptable.
I have the iPhone 15 pro also, I posted about my camera issues recently including horrible selfie camera, but for some reason Apple deleted my post. Even old iPhone 11 Pro looks better. Completely unacceptable and Apple is ignoring this problem !
iPhone 15 front camera issues
