iPhone 6 poor picture quality

I have an iPhone 6 (64gb AT&T) running iOS 8.02 and I'm experiencing poor image quality with photos taken with the camera. It looks they are artificially over sharpened and fairly pixelated when compared to photos taken with my iPhone 5. It's most noticeable when capturing skin tones in a lowish light setting. It almost looks like there has been a bad watercolor effect added to then photo. I'm attaching a few examples that have been cropped to show the problem spots. Anyone else having this issue?


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Posted on Oct 2, 2014 11:45 AM

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May 25, 2015 3:20 PM in response to Farhadzak

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I was so excited to upgrade from the 4S to the 6 and did a pre-order last September. I've mostly been happy with the 6, EXCEPT, like everyone else on this thread... the picture quality is sometimes HORRIBLE!! Many photos come out looking like a patchwork watercolor. I took the photo above standing fairly close with a little zoom and it's poor quality. It's very frustrating and I've missed some wonderful photo ops because the pics turn out so lousy. I was just outside trying to capture some wildlife shots and when reviewed they are all blurry,... out of frustration I found this forum thread. I'm going to take some comparison photos using my old 4S and see how they turn out... looks like I'm going to have to ditch the iPhone and purchase a camera... super disappointed with Apple lately after being a long time fan 😟

May 27, 2015 6:46 AM in response to LuvMusic55

I don't think I've ever been as disappointed with a tech purchase as I am with this phone because of the picture compression issue. Where were all the "trusted reviewers" on this? Why did everything I read tout the camera on this phone? Would have definitely NOT bought this phone had I seen the absolutely absurdly unusable pictures pumped out. It's especially painful to see the "shot with iPhone" ads that show off these amazing pictures.

Jul 3, 2015 4:48 AM in response to musicman88

I had exactly the same 'watercolour' / poor quality images.

I don't know if this will fix it permanently but so far so good...


1. Go into native camera app

2. Click the 3 circles bottom right

3. Click on 'none'

4. Take photos


This simple thing fixed it for me, even though it was set to 'none' previously with no other filters selected. Normally when a different filter is selected those 3 circles change to coloured circles and when it is on 'none' they go monochrome. (Originally they were monochrome, & I was still getting bad shots).


Anyway, I'm not suggesting this will fix it for everyone, but it has worked for me....so far.

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