iPhone 7 Plus Camera - Pictures are bad

Wow, those pictures really look great, no smudging or "watercoloring" at all! So, what is it that you did by accident to get those shots?

he used another phone camera made by Leica

i got the same camera quality problem with my 7 plus and my friend's 6 plus is way much better . sorry but am really disappointed

@chevysales: Nope I was taking those photos with iPhone not Huawei or however you write that. I went today to a mall to play with other flagships to compare my camera results with others 😉 A kind of paranoia now and a sick hobby 😉

Below, the first link, are some shots done at the same time with iPhone 7 and Nexus 5x. I am at a point where I think I am spending too much time doing that comparison but my photos seem to be a lot better than those I took a few days ago. At least these are comparable to Nexus photos.

iPhone vs Nexus (today)

http://imgur.com/a/ZY7IC

and some other photos taken at the mall

http://imgur.com/a/gaXOj

The photos seems to be ok with good light but there are some focus issues where the "blochiness" occurs but when I compared with nexus it basically looks similar. With low light phones do not do well in general.

I do not know what to think anymore. Does my iPhone have the problem or just a smalle problem? I am sitting over this too much recently...

You won't see the issue in close-up shots. The issue is most apparent in subject 2 or more feet away. Especially if it's a wide shot. Even if you lock the focus correctly.

Also it's reported that not all iPhone 7 cameras are experiencing this, so you may simply be one of the lucky ones, though it does seem to me that any areas that are somewhat distant in the depth of field show this affect. In the mall photo the girl's New Balance shoe logo, for instance. That's not normal even for out of focus elements.

I am pretty sure that photos I was taking before were all really bad and this is why I ended up on this forum. In the meantime I did one thing. I had apple call me and the consultant asked me ton of questions about what is up and she was understanding and really listened to me and regiestered the issue. She also wanted to diagnose the phone and asked me to "reset all settings", not to restore but to reset those settings because that was needed to diagnose the phone properly. Of course it all went ok and she did not see anything wrong with it. The only thing was that I lost my settings like alarms, ringtones, wallpaper and stuff like that. She told me to go to a store where they fix apple products so that someone more experienced could have a look at this and she asked me to take some photos to present him/her what is wrong. So I started taking those photos and I am sure they were better. Before every photo was like a painting. I remember taking photo of my kid and being shocked about how awful the photo was. I did a similar shot yesterday and it was fine with me.

When I take photos of objects that are away from the camera and with low light? Yes it s*cks but then I took out the other phone which I treat as a benchmark here, and it s*cks as **** too

I do not know if I fixed the issue but it will not hurt to give it a shot? It took me some time to write that because I know it sounds like black magic but maybe there is something to it...

well.. I also reset the settings few days ago and noticed some improvement in the images too, but was skeptical if it was only me who is feeling the change. Yes I lost all the settings and had to get them setup again but it hardly took 5 mins of mine. Can anyone else try to reset all settings and confirm if there is any improvement? I'm using iPhone 7 (not plus).

Same problem as the others. I am a professional photographer and have used previous iPhones for behind the scenes images with good success, great for social media. But my new iPhone 7+ images look like crap. Painterly when zoomed in with terrible clarity and resolution. I'm buying ProCamera 8 now to see how they look in RAW DNG. And will be scheduling a genius appointment tomorrow to see what the local Apple Store says.

Now that you are saying there is an improvement, can you post a photo?

I have the same problem! I took some raw photos with Lightroom when I got my phone and they were fine, but now even my raw photo are bad! I might gonna have to reset all my setting to see if I can at least get my raw photos back to good quality because I don't want to take photo with the basic camera anymore, it just look too bad! I'm a photographer and I was waiting to switch from my iPhone 5S to see a lot of photo improvement and it's the only reason I decided to change for iPhone 7+, but I'm just so disappointed I already sold my iPhone 5S, I would of kept it for the better photo quality!

I changed another new iPhone at the Apple Store and performed test again. I found the results are the same, strange white balance (especially for red color and the sky blue, which appeared to be dull and dark) and heavy noise. I wish it is the problem of IOS but not the hardware otherwise, I would downgrade to 6s plus again which I can handily take lovely pictures!

Good to see that Apple has deleted 3-4 pages worth of discussion. If they don't like it then maybe they should fix the god **** issue.

I have few updates to share.

1. Apple closed my bug marking it duplicate. This is good because Apple has someone working on it.

2. The photos that I took on 7 Plus appear fine on my old 6 (which got downloaded via iCloud). I zoomed in to the max and I hardly notice the watercolour effect on 6 for the same photos!

That begs me a question if the ppi of 7 plus is lesser than iPhone 6 screen ppi.

PPI makes no difference unless your printing. The 4 pages appear to be redundant posts.

Over 80% of posts are by users who only had one post to community and regarding this.

I have watched it fine before when email adds link to users who have jumped into threads to bash and nothing more.

This might be same type of thing?

The steps taken with resetting all settings is #3 and #3a on Apples flow chart for troubleshooting any repairs.