How to fix poor camera quality on iPhone 16 Pro Max after the latest update?

Hello Angelika, and welcome!

To post an image here as Jeff Donald requests, you reply to your own thread and use the "Image Insertion" tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the text entry box:

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Pictures taken with iPhones may deafault to Apple's "HEIC" format. You can use Preview to convert, or take a new image after you change format in:

Settings > Camera > Formats

There, select "Most Compatible":

And, because I had a similar issue with my wife's phone, I must ask: Are the lenses clean?

Hi, you’ll need to share a few photos that show your “bad camera quality” so we can best determine the issue and suggest ways to correct or modify the issue.

Hi, thank you for the screenshots. What app is displaying the photos? Why don’t the two photos match? The lower photo is not the same as the upper photo. Please share two identical photos with the issue.

222Angelika222 wrote:

after the newest update my camera quality is bad, how to solve it? I have iPhone 16 pro max

We certainly haven't heard people saying the camera started taking bad photos after the latest iOS update. Please post examples of what you think is wrong with your photos. My cameras were simply unaffected by the update to iOS 26.3 on our iPhones.

I got a new iPad Keyboard from Brydge yesterday and am one of the first in the world to get one (amazing keyboard actually) so I took a number of photos. None are bad in any way:

DrJonesUSA wrote:

Dang… tell me more about the keyboard, please!!

Checked it out on Brydge’s site… looks amazing!

But its only for the 11”; not 13??

It's the best built keyboard, with the most amazing and versatile hinge system I've ever seen. It's ALL Aluminum, including the back which your iPad attached magnetically to. I've been a huge fan of Brydge keyboards since I got my first one in 2019. Yes, this is for the iPad Pro 11 (M4/M5), which was just released this week. Brydge will have one ready for the 13" M4/M5 iPad Pro in March.

Dang… tell me more about the keyboard, please!!

Checked it out on Brydge’s site… looks amazing!

But its only for the 11”; not 13??

Hi, so what kind of Doctor are you? Tell me more please!!

Just confirm a few details. How did you originally shoot the images your shared are the Apple ProRAW, HEIF or JPEG (most compatible)? Are you using the Apple native camera app or a third party app?