iPhone 6 poor picture quality

Clicking on "none" in the filter selection didn't work for me. I have given my phone to the Apple Authorized Service center yesterday. Waiting for them while they are doing the "diagnosis".

Seriously, I think you didn't read anything about we are talking about in this thread. Disabling the filters does nothing to improve the iPhone 6 camera internal noise reduction filter.

So you'd rather I didn't post the simple solution that helped me fix the same problem that this thread mentions?

I didn't promise it would work for you, but you know what, technology is a funny old thing and perhaps there might just be someone out there somewhere who will benefit from the suggestion.

Maybe I should spend my time replying to people who have tried to help, and criticise them for their efforts instead. Like you did.

The problem is you don't understand what the problem this thread talks about is. A problem which is completly unrelated to the camera filters that you can turn on/off in the camera app.

I'm sorry, but what you talk about has nothing to do with the one this thread mentions. Do you really believe that after 105 replies no one ever noticed that the problem could be easily solved just by disabling the camera effects?

Your "solution" is just for people which turned on by mistake a filter and doesn't know how to turn it off, but does nothing at all to disable the underlying noise effect filter which makes everything look like a watercolor (with or without turning on the camera effects).

The noise reduction algorithm about we are complaining is ALWAYS turned on, and is present in EVERY camera app (not only the Apple one), since it's done at driver level, so whenever an application access to the camera it always receives an excessive noise reduced image.

I'm not criticising you, it's just replies like yours contributes to make people / Apple think there's no problem with the iPhone 6 camera except for the users don't know how to configure the camera app, and that's not the case.

I thank you for your contribution trying to help, but I'm sorry, your solution is not correct, and has nothing to do with the noise filtering algorithm in the iPhone 6 camera.

p.d. sorry my bad english

Hi guys, got my phone diagnosed and found nothing. The service technician said they reinstalled software (he explained that re installation ensures all known bugs are fixed, software update doesn't guarantee this)

Compared photos taken in my phone with their "known good iPhone". Found no more water colour / grainy effect in the photos.

Of course the won't find anything. The problem we are talking about in this thread is a software "feature". Apple thinks that people loves smooth pictures, so they have included a noise reduction algorithm in the camera driver. So no matter how many times you reinstall your phone (you can do that by yourself with iTunes, no need to visit an Apple Store), the problem will continue until Apple decides to remove that algorithm.

If your phone was showing "grainy effect" probably you just had the camera filters turned on, and it has nothing to do with the problem we are talking about here.

Btw....if the technician explained what you say...let me say he has no clue at all about how iOS update and installation process really works.

Regards.

WWhatever, my phone takes good pics now :-)

Hello

I had this problem.

I solved it just uninstalling the app named "Onavo Extend". This app saves your mobile data reducing the quality of your images. I just uninstalled this app and I get back the good quality of all pics that I see on websites, Instagram, Facebook, etc.

So, I think that if you are having this problem, you must check if your iDevice has installed the "Onavo Extend" app, and just uninstall and it might solve the issue...

Good luck everyone....

Here is another example. This is not in low light. Notice especially the rock that the black bird is sitting on in the water. I am finding that the "watercolor" effect is very erratic and happens often in full sunlight and also sometime in low light. However, it is not happening consistently--sometimes I get very clear pictures in either kind of light. I have read through this thread and tried a couple of the solutions mentioned, but nothing seems to help the situation.

This is a couple of examples of poor picture quality I am getting! These aren't even the worst offenders! I took some that came out ok and then these and some others that were dreadful! This is really disappointing! I only have my phone as source of camera! Hope Apple sort this out.

I tried to use the report bug link and I couldn't get in?

Is this honestly acceptable with an iPhone 6 Plus face cam??? Incredibly irritated.

Has anyone tried the ios 9 beta on their phone? Does this problem still exist in ios 9 beta? I am so unhappy with the quality of the photos my iPhone 6 takes because of this noise reduction problem. My iPhone 5 took great pictures!

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I'm having this issue as well. Many, but not all, or my pictures with my iPhone 6 have pixelation and poor resolution when viewed at 100%. I did not use zoom to take any of the pictures.

Nope, I can confirm that the issue is unfortunately alive and well on iOS 9 as well. I optimistically searched for some button (even in Accessibility settings) for turning off noise reduction or something similar... but no such thing yet.

Otherwise same with my iPhone 6: watercolor (or oil/impressionism painting) "effect", faces like those from a wax museum, leaves on trees and grass look like from a painting, not a photo... and these issues are not always consistent (be it in good or lousy lighting conditions), so in essence I never know whether a photo was good until I see it on the big screen.

Should've remained on 4S... 😠

Bad news to those who as myself were waiting for Apple to fix the noise reduction algorithm with the new iPhone 6s:

Take a look at her hair:

https://cdn2.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4096340/iphone6splus_portrait .0.JPG

Now a normal phone with a normal noise reduction algorithm:

Galaxy 6 Edge

https://cdn3.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4096350/gs6edge__portrait.0.j pg

Full article with samples here: http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/25/9397055/best-smartphone-camera-test-iphone-6s- samsung-galaxy-lg

But the author must be as blind as Apple camera team if he says that there's no clear winner.

Time to switch to Android?...😢

I guess I'll wait for the iPhone 7...but I seriously doubt Apple ever fixes something they see as a "feature". 😠