iphone 15 pro automatically resize photos when taking in 16:9

This is happening to me as well, I have an (almost) fix. If I change the aspect ratio from 9:16 to 4:5, or shoot in portrait mode, it no longer happens. But if I go back to 16:9 it happens again.

Another, more tedious fix is to edit the photo, go to the cropping section then tap original aspect ratio, and it will snap it to a full 4:5 frame.

I had this same distortion issue since the phone was new, but it appears iOS v17.3.1 has finally cleared it up.

I have the same problem too shortly after i bought my iphone 15 pro. I restarted my phone & it seems to solve the problem. But a few days later, the problem came back again... i also notice that this problem only happens if i'm using the iphone camera app. If i used another app eg instagram to take a photo in 16:9 size, it doesnt get resize... so i feel that it might be a software issue 😮‍💨

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I faced the same problem for the first time today with my iPhone 15 pro. Additionally, if I switch portrait mode on, the image gets all garbled in the area where the black L would be otherwise. Turning off portrait mode makes the image shrink back to the top left leaving the black L shape around it.

The problem went away on its own after a while and I have no idea why it happened in the first place.

Dear (?) Apple!

i’m fuming, I right now need to take square pictures with framing to be seen before I take the picture but found out it is no longer available on my new phone 15. It worked perfectly on iPhone 6.

why is this simple feature not available on this advanced phone 15? Please let me know as soon as possible how to fix it. Thank you.

Bob Rychlík

Frey@gmail.com.

after taking all the square pictures with my old iPhone 6 (!!!!!), and transferring them to my new phone. 15,

I came back and kept trying to find a possible way, and at the end I was successful, but it is not easy to find:

On top of the picture screen click little arrow on the middle to be pointing up, click it to point down now in yellow color. Then look at the screen bottom on the right size, you will see thete displayed either of 2 sizes. 16:9, or 4:3.

when you click on it, on the bottom would appear options to use either of two sizes and in the middle the is option “square”!!!!!!

I also discovered, that close by is also good option for night pictures. So it is all possible, but it’s very difficult to find it. But once you find it couple times you will get used to it.

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I have the same problem. The image will resized automatically. Does anybody have any idea what’s happening??

I am using an iPhone 15 Pro Max and this also happens to me.

I hope this gets fixed the soonest by Apple