iPhone 7 Plus Camera - Pictures are bad

Too funny. I thought i was alone here. So far, the pictures that i am taking with my iPhone 7 plus are the worse from all the iPhones that i had before. Come on Apple... don't make us leave to the powerful Google Pixel that just got released!

I don't think Apple will do a thing about it unless our dissatisfaction becomes louder and hits the mainstream media. Perhaps we need to kick up a fuss in public.

I'm stuck with this sub-standard smartphone for the next two years; after then, we'll see what direction the Google Pixel, Android generally, and Apple with iOS are headed in, and who knows…

I've started this off, raised a bug and have a support engineer contacting me today...

I've pointed all to this thread as a backdrop.

Apple Support offered handing my phone into a Genius Bar for "environmental" testing I declined this at the first pass, who knows what the Genius Bar guys will do with it...

Really glad I found this thread and that I am not going crazy after 2 months feeling very confused and disappointed with the results from my iPhone 7+

@AnoupK - hoping to hear good news from your engineer call later.

I just noticed iOS 10.1.1 has dropped - anyone seen if this has a stealth patch for what we all hope is a software issue?

This really needs fixing ASAP - fed up of so many pictures of my son looking like a water painting ! Tempted to switch to the amazing Google Pixel out of spite as family photos are #1 for me but I am so deep in the Apple ecosystem it would be a supreme ball ache. That said, having spent £900 on a phone I expect stella pictures and they are markedly worse than the 6S I traded up from! 😮

Pictures are just as poor at 10.1.1.

I missed the engineer call so will arrange for tomorrow. I've also got Apple support engaged over Twitter, where I sent them copies of photos that I think are poor one in day light and a few under my living room lights which are not dim. Nothing from the bug as yet.

Thanks for the update.

I've got this issue as well, I discovered it while attempting to get some pictures printed of my 20 week old son for his Grandmother.

History has told me I can rely on Apple for this sort of work, and I'm seeing now that I cannot - this is a MASSIVE disappointment as I have hundreds of candid photos of my son that are worthless on any screen that is not my iPhone.

Hey guys, so I too commented a few days ago in the same frustration. Since then I've realized that for some pictures to come out better, the lighting needs to be good and your camera focused on your subject well with the proper exposure for your shots. Also to be able to take advantage of taking pictures in RAW format on the iPhone 7 you'll have to use a third party app that offers that feature. I think taking pictures in RAW format will began to take up more space than a regular jpeg image, but in RAW format you do get the full resolution of your images a lot better.

Sure, but I shouldn't have to jump through hoops to take a candid picture of my kids

I'm having the same problem too!

I use RAW as well, being a photographer I also have Photoshop and Lightroom to edit the files however most people don't.

I've taken RAW images indoors on my 6s Plus and 7 Plus and there is not much separating them, the noise on the RAW files needs really aggressive noise reduction that smooths out the photo totally, loosing a lot of detail.

Point is people aren't always able to take photos in good light, my pictures taken indoors on a sunny day look poor. I want my iPhone to take keep sakes that I can print, so my SLR isn't always in tow. I'm not expecting SLR level of quality at all but something useable at least printed up to full size.

On the 7 Plus the telephoto lens is really not useful unless you're outdoors in sunlight as more often than not iOS uses to digital zoom rather than use the telephoto lens. I understand why this is but do feel a little cheated that this lens performs so poorly in anything but daylight conditions.

My post does not bring much in the topic, but I also have this problem. iPhone 7 and the watercolor problem is visible mainly on faces. My wife's iPhone 5s takes better pictures.

Then I see adverts such as this and know full well in those light conditions the images and video captured would be useless...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qStdSMad6TY

Check out this comparison of 2 photos of the same flower.

See if you can tell which is the iPhone 7 and which is the Google Pixel!

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Would you be able to send me those photos, I can upload to Apple support...