iPhone 6 poor picture quality

:O He's blind all right...

I wasn't waiting for the fix with 6S... I was waiting for it with iOS 9. And then 9.0.1. And then 9.0.2. The pictures look like those I took with Sony Ericsson non-smart-phone in 2007, except with a little less megapixels.

I am looking for other solutions (also because in addition to this, iPhones are incapable of sending photos or other files on a device-to-device basis, i.e. via Bluetooth, when no network is around).

Just got a new 6s....this noise algorithm rubbish is driving me nuts! Makes images look like you've chucked a 'oil paint' effect on in Photoshop. Sort it out Apple!!!

IT IS TRULY HORRIBLE AND DISAPPOINTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

have you installed the 9.1? i downgraded to 8.4.1 for better performance, but if the new update solves the camera oil painting "feature" i will do it.

regretting i6 image processing... Miss my old 5

Hi - yes, I am running 9.1 - latest iOS. I agree, my 5S looked so much better!

So glad I'm not the only one, and want to add in my post so this issue doesn't just go away for Apple. And I encourage others to keep adding to this thread!

The first image below was taken using my old (unfortunately I passed it onto someone who really needed a phone, so I can't ask for it back); and the second one was taken using 6. The lighting condition for the second photo was not bad at all yet the close up came out lacking details/blurred.

I am hopeful a future software update may fix the issue, I'm on 9.1 currently. What makes me say this is that when you take a HD video at 60 FPS, the video looks very sharp without the blurring effect as seen in the photos.

kiwi4s wrote:

The first image below was taken using my old (unfortunately I passed it onto someone who really needed a phone, so I can't ask for it back); and the second one was taken using 6. The lighting condition for the second photo was not bad at all yet the close up came out lacking details/blurred

This shot?

Wow! That is really good! Very detailed. You can even count the individual fibers sticking up off the stalk of the plant.

The F-Stop was very low and the focus is on the stalk with the buds.

Adding to the thread since it's encouraged. I'm going nuts over this so called feature. I just had a baby and got a new iPhone 6S just after that. Thought I would have great pictures of her from these first weeks of her life but boy was I wrong. Both my iPhone 5S and 4 took better pictures. A shame I have given them both away. Here's hoping the next software update will fix this annoying feature.

I Have the same complaints.

OH look, Apple still hasn't fixed the weird glitch with this form.

EVery new line has two capital letters.

AByway ... Wait. What? Autocorrect is also broken on here? Seriously does Apple not test this stuff?

ANYWAY: the noise-reduction algorithm is WAY too aggressive. It's also weirdly selective. It attacks hair on my cat (no flash) but not the texture of my sweatpants right next to her. With flash, there's no aggressive noise reduction (but of course the image highlights are solid white and awful).

ive already sent my own feedback to Apple but I thought I'd add my voice here. Maybe they could bother to correct the weirdness with this forum text box and iPhones as well, i mean, Apple product on behaving badly on Apple websites.... [shakes head]

Edit: and what's with the text size??

EDit 2: different rrsult every time I submit an edit.

OK, I'm furious already... this "feature" was the biggest mistake apple did with it's camera... so annoying.

Almost every picture, regardless of the lighting conditions is crappy! I wish someone seriously did some good review of it before I purchased the upgrade. This is really BIG step back.

I was so proud of Apple not doing that megapixels hunts and to have them admit they have a little noise in the pictures, which is a good thing... this noise reduction is pure ****!

I'm sooo ****** I'm really considering switching to another phone 😟

Ok, and here is the 100% crop. iPhone 6S Plus iOS 9.1

Poor quality here too (6S Plus, 64GB), my 5s was better and focused quicker with less blur. There are time the 6s Plus does ok but most of the time it is this "watercolor" issue I have read about. Very disappointing for such an expensive phone. Samsung cameras seem to be clearly superior.

Just signing my name to this, we bought two 6s plus phones recently and everything looks like blurry, watercolor or oil painting.

APPLE, ***! FIX THIS!

Also adding to the voices here.

I believe most people don't have an issue because you can hardly notice the effect, for example, on Instagram while viewing on the phone screen. I also think rarely people look at their photos at 100% unless they really care about them and wish to do anything else to them.

I am also getting the effect, and it does seem to be bad noise processing or something, perhaps it could be fixed? If its a feature maybe apple could give us the option to disable it. Im also using an iPhone 6 with iOS 9.2

Adding my voice here as well. It's infuriating how hot or miss the picture quality is, and 75% of the time it's a miss. i can't pack/carry my DSLR where I ride, and the pictures from the iphone 6 are blurry. Really disappointing.

XanderJames

Wrong wrong wrong. It's one thing to have slightly blurry photos - but it's another thing when Apple runs ads "Shot with an iPhone" showing these ridiculously pristine photos. It's painful when you look back on the first year of your child's life to see all these terrible overly corrected blurry watercolor photos. Photos are an emotional thing and the fact that Apple has not fixed this while at the same time holding this camera aloft and proclaiming its virtues is painful. You don't need to look at 100% to see how bad they are. I will say though that this is mostly with photos taken with indoor light - with great light it's not as painful. But still - I just can't understand why this issue hasn't been resolved.