iPhone 6 plus video is dark compared to the pictures

Wow. Right about video through messages. It's much much brighter! Not as good as photo still but phenomenally better that way!

I have the exact same issue on my iPhone 6 64 Gb. Video and Slo-mo is nearly useless in low light indoor conditions. It's far worse compared to my old iPhone 4s.

Any success with this issue?

I also am hoping to get an update. Thanks!

mee too... I have the same problem...

I have the same issue, which seems to only affect the rear camera. If I use the front camera its much brighter (similar to using the iMessage version).

I've read the iPhone 6 has a 800 iso limit, whereas previous versions didn't.

I'm getting mine checked at an Apple Store on Friday, so will let you know.

I too am experiencing this same issue.

Would love to hear your experience when you go to the Apple store.

I can't address individual problems (which is why you need to take it to Apple for evaluation, rather than waiting for a software fix), but it is always the case that slow motion video takes more light than standard video, and the slower the motion, the more light that is required. Simply the physics of the situation.

I wanted to add my feedback here as well, since I seem to be having the same issue.

iPhone 6, 64GB Black, on the latest iOS version.

Very happy/satisfied by the amount of light being captured in a room with less light, in photo mode.

Same for the front facing camera.

What's very disappointing is how DARK the video seems to be when trying to capture it on Video mode.

This is non slow-motion mode, and non-60 fps. If I switch the camera from rear to front facing mode, in video, it brightens up considerably. Also as others have suggested, the rear facing camera seems to brighten up a lot when entering camera mode from a Message. But if I switch to the Video Recording mode from the Camera app (rear facing), it's very very dark (even darker than my old iPhone 4s).

I hope Apple recognizes this; seems like a software flaw rather than a hardware one since light is being properly captured in photo mode.

I noticed this problem immediately when arriving home with a new phone. The low light videos are unusuable. You need a lot of light to record on this phone if not it's hopeless. This is a software issue as I downloaded another camera app and was able to get better video quality in 720p recording.

I Went to an Apple Store and told them about how the video camera is basically useless under lowlight and one of the geniuses said he would switch it out if I had proof. I didn't think of holding these crappy dark videos as proof so I went to a dark parking lot and recorded using the camera app (no FPS change) and then recorded another video through iMessage. Went back and the genius said it was a software issue and that I should do a iCloud backup which I did but the issue is still there. Honestly I haven't went back to switch the device-yet- It's a bit of a hassle but will update once I go back to the store this weekend.

Antony Tezio wrote:

I noticed this problem immediately when arriving home with a new phone. The low light videos are unusuable. You need a lot of light to record on this phone if not it's hopeless. This is a software issue as I downloaded another camera app and was able to get better video quality in 720p recording.

I Went to an Apple Store and told them about how the video camera is basically useless under lowlight and one of the geniuses said he would switch it out if I had proof. I didn't think of holding these crappy dark videos as proof so I went to a dark parking lot and recorded using the camera app (no FPS change) and then recorded another video through iMessage. Went back and the genius said it was a software issue and that I should do a iCloud backup which I did but the issue is still there. Honestly I haven't went back to switch the device-yet- It's a bit of a hassle but will update once I go back to the store this weekend.

You're really wasting your time to exchange the phone because it doesn't take fabulous videos in low light. It's the limitation of the lens and not many, if any camera phones can take exceptional video in low light. My over $2000 DSLR and lens system takes poor quality video in low light. How can you expect an iPhone to do better? I'm sorry, but your expectations are unrealistic.

It's not that it's low quality it's that its just too dark! The expectations aren't unrealistic - with a camera that's meant to be improved in the iPhone 6 compared To the 5s it performs worse. My 4s even takes better videos - you can actually see what's in the frame at least!

surely it must be a software problem when you use the camera from messages/watsapp/another photo app that the video is lighter and allows more light in. Surely?!

So we can better understand, can you post a link to a video you took with your 4S and then the iPhone 6 of the same setting?

Not exactly being unrealistic when I can get decent low light recording with the Note 4. HD videos overall look great. On the 6 Plus not so much. If the competition can do it so should this. To say it's unrealistic means you don't expect more and you're fine with hardware being crap. It's people like you that settle for less and stay quiet. It's just a phone right? Why complain? Because if we don't then Apple will continue to dish out overpriced and outdated crap.

Some of our best moments and memories are in dark and low light places and I want be able to record some of it with my brand new $1000 phone.

It must be an Aperture or ISO limitation in video mode. Maybe the camera cannot or won't allow max aperture in video mode, causing the video to be darker? I wonder what the max ISO is of the camera and if the video mode is capped or not.

I wish I still had my old iPhone 4s to compare.