iPhone 7 Plus Camera - Pictures are bad

Got the phone back. First it was "repaired" on a local service and they didnt do nothing to it (they originally said that they would replace the phone to a new one...) and then they send it to Ireland (Apples international service). Phone was more than two weeks away....

And what they did?? Replaced the screen! Of course this didnt solved the problem and now the screen sounds loose when pressed from the right upper corner. So dissappointed because old days whole service process was so much faster and reliable.

Now I have downloaded Adobe Lightroom mobile from App Store and took pictures in raw a format (saved to camera roll in a jpeg after editing in Lightroom) and image quality is superp! Of course you get a lot of noise, but image detail levels is so fantastic so I dont mind it. So this is definitely a software problem, not hardware. Taking pictures like this and editing takes a alot of time so this is not a fix to my wife and usual consumers:(

When taking pictures with iPhone native camera application software is compressing images too much and is adding way too much noise reduction and also image manipulation. Could it be that Apple uses same algoryhtm with DCI-

P3 Wide Color Gamut than old phones and it makes this watercolor effect?

I am using lightroom with DNG activated. Besides that it's more complex to use than the apple camera, I'm quite happy with the outcome. However, with my phone the image detail only comes out once some kind of processing has been done in Lightroom, even if it's just the lens correction. With out processing of any kind the watercolor effect is still visible, also in lightroom.

This is quite a long and active thread by now. Hopefully some influential person at apple will notice it soon.

"However, with my phone the image detail only comes out once some kind of processing has been done in Lightroom".

Same thing. Some image processing/editing in Lightroom must be done before "image shows its details".

What adjustments are you making to get superb results?

I have tried NR, Lens Correction, edge-sharpening and other detail enhancement but am not really impressed...

just can just turn on lens correction and the image becomes nice and grainy :-) but the watercolor effect is gone.

I thought of using Raw but don't want to have to process every image and it shouldn't be necessary to do so. Also like to use apps like hipstamatic and snapseed and these work on the already Apple processed jpeg image.

Apple need to get this sorted.

I've tried the lot but working on the jpeg just doesn't work as the image is already corrupted by the iPhones processing.

Looks like 10.2 has been released with nothing in there for this issue...

Just wanted to chime in here. My 7 Plus also exhibiting this issues with the crap quality pictures. Attached image comparing an original iPhone 6 to my brand new 7 Plus with the standard Camera app. 7 Plus image is absolutely terrible in a fully lit room, even worse than a phone from 2 generations ago.

I can verify taking DNG with LR mobile basically fixes the issue, however I need to select the "Detailed" option under "Presets" -> "Details", then export in order to get a usable JPEG.

This is pretty embarrassing, especially considering it's been 3+ months since the release or the phone with multiple iOS updates in between. Considering people are buying this phone SPECIFICALLY for the camera (like I did), this is something that should be addressed with some urgency, in my opinion.

I am livid.

Just had a call back from Apple Support, the guy on the phone was relaying the message from an "engineer" essentially saying I have to take the phone into an apple store and take photos with an iPhone 7 Plus and compare. If the images look the same then this will prove it's not an hardware issue, there is nothing they can do as the opinions of people on photo quality "differ" and in this case feedback to Apple using the feedback site.

I argued with the guy the logic that if the compared photos are the same then this might not be a hardware issue, it's an iOS one what do I do about that. He talked some rubbish about the software downloaded is the latest and to feedback.

I finished expressing dismay that this phone cannot produce an image out-of-the-box that is useable. Unless I take a RAW image and edit it, which required time for and loses the live-photo ability as well not to mention the amout of storage required to hive off thousands of photos. I shouldn't have to use RAW as my defacto option.

This is my last iPhone, I'm on the Apple upgrade program will pay that off ahead of time and get a phone that produces better photos with a secondary RAW option.

I have been an Apple enthusiast for over 15 years and have been using the iPhone since gerneration one.

I am so upset with the iphone 7 Plus camera quality. Apple is focusing more and more on useless gimmicks like the portrait effect, moving photos and the "telephoto" lens which is anyway automatically replaced by a digital zoom in poor lighting conditions. The same goes for all their other new products. Apple should focus on making their products better, not crammed with stuff that no one needs while forgetting about improving and simplifying more important things.

What has really annoyed me is this is something that didn't need tinkering with. The iPhone 7 is an iterative upgrade, albeit with added technology that should be to enhance what they had in the 6s, 6, 5s. These phones more or less had fantastic cameras that weren't the best in some circles but in my mind better than Samsung's over-processed image production and way better than a Nexus or One-Plus-One.

The telephoto lens, OIS, RAW should've allowed for truly great options, instead RAW is the necessity to take a reasonable photo. OIS is defunct due to the actual images being so poor. Telephoto lens as you say largely worthless unless outside in daylight.

All of us here have raised issues, I've repeatedly pointed Apply Support to this thread to see the good work put in by some to identify the problem and what they've come back with to me personally is offending.

Hi there,its not cause of hardware, its cause of ios 10. Do you use ios 10.2 beta or standart ios version? if you use beta it will fix when you downgrade to standart ios but if you use standart ios now and you have this problem?!Sorry but you have to wait for update.But one more try;go to any apple store and ask it, if you get answers please reply.I hope i can answer your questions.

Not sure what you can contribute however I suggest you read through the thread and see that people have posted here...

I am running 10.1.1 and now 10.2. The issue is the same with either and 10.2 has no fixes related to bugs for image processing.

I have the same issue too. The image quality while zooming is realy disasster.

Apple, please do something...