iPhone 7 Plus Camera - Pictures are bad

Thanks for posting that video! pretty much everything we have been complaining about being highlighted by experts in a controlled environment.

These 2 shots really show the issues of the iPhone 7+ for me...The coral in particular shows the same blurry mess that I see on photos of my son / wife etc.

Every day I edge closer to selling my iPhone and moving to the Pixel...

You nailed it. It seems that the fanboys and girls will always stick up for whatever company they like no matter what people are showing/proving. How can we make this more public?

I too have terrible paint effect blurring on most photos. Even at pretty bad levels during midday light outdoors. Low light shots look like pencil crayon drawings by my 2 year old and are completely unusable. Apple have replaced the camera unit - no fix. Online support - no fix. Genius Bar - no fix. Software updates - no fix. Apple staff all see the issues, but all say I'm the only one with the problem. Problem evident on 10.0 right through to 10.2 (current) - both public builds and betas, and it occurs on both outward-facing cameras, with or without portrait mode. My 6+ is taking better photos in the same circumstances right now... I'm getting close to asking for a refund and going with a Pixel XL or OnePlus 3T. Or maybe generating some media attention may help. Has anyone had a replacement iPhone 7+ and has it solved the issue? Hoping this is a small batch problem that Apple recognises.

I did some research a few weeks ago and this issue has been there in one form or another for a long time. I am starting to think that this is not a bug. I moved from nexus 5x to iPhone 6s and now toiPhone 7 and both have poor quality photos. I moved back in time (on google) to see photos taken with iphone 6 and they are basically equally bad. There were some posts dating long before iPhone 6s/7 with this problem.

I somehow managed to get a better quality photos with a all settings reset (accidentally fixed it a little. I wrote about that pages ago) and my photos turn pretty ok in good light. But, yes in low light situations or with objects far away, it just looks awful.

I tested all the main apps and they all take the same photos as if they all worked on a JPG delivered by iPhone. The DNG files are better but I think that they are not sharp enough for a diigtal negative. They have more detail and some noise but are lacking shapness in my opinion.

My today's test. the darker is a JPG from lightrooms DNG and the brighter is JPG from apples stock app.

http://imgur.com/a/OQxkB

more photos comparing nexus 5x and iphone 7 in the evening. Photos taken a month ago. I never shared them because I stopped posting here.

http://imgur.com/a/Ii4EE

More saturated are from iPhone

I switched from 6 plus to iPhone 7 two weeks ago. I I was not sure if it was just me or my old phone used to take better pics. So i am not the only who thinks the same. All my pics looks very blurry and there isnno such thing as sharpness. I am adding a few pics taken by me.

(There is plenty of light form the chandelier, the label is impossible to read)

I have booked an appointment in the apple store on Monday. I presume there is something wrong with lenses or OIS. Could this appear because the phone has been dropped?

Hello from Turkey,

Finally I have an iphone 7 plus 32 gb. and already have iphone 4 32 gb, iphone 5 16 gb, ipad mini 2 16 gb...

I'm artist and professional photographer/designer, I'm often taking lot's of photographs with these devices. Always good but iPhone 7 plus is poor. problem is same . The image quality has like watercolor effect, if you look closer to pictures you can easily notice. I was disappointed, I did not expect it to be so bad... Even iphone 4 picture quality is better than 7, really. Yes I know megapixel is larger than other Iphones. That is ok. But something is wrong with picture results. Now it's the question: is that belongs to software or camera lens quality? physical or software based? If problem is on the inner software system hope Apple will solve this problem otherwise I would like to give back/return my device the Applestore...I mean it will be a junk for us. I'm reading lot's of texts on the web with the same problem. And some users made compare with other brands camera picture quality. Yes really there is something weird of picture results. Is there anything to adjust or maintain ways to solve this problem ? or will any update come soon ? Please please please.... !

Best regards...

ps. Im using IOS 10.2

I reached out on Macrumors forums to see if anyone on there is recognizing this. I still advise everyone to contact Apple about this if you haven't already.

No solutions forthcoming as yet.

My contacts details are as follows:

P.S. Go easy on him! - it's not his fault and he does seem very willing to try and get to the bottom of the problem but no individual at this level is going to be able to influence the whole of Apple on their own!!

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My own experiments (and Apple replacing my camera unit) point to this being a software/firmware issue. Raw images in 3rd party apps don't have the same problem. Really looks like an overcooked JPEG algorithm.

I also believe this is the case. DNG from LR look good — it's almost certainly not hardware or camera-module related. I feel bad for the people wasting so much time trying to get repairs done or phones replaced. It's not going to change (unless you were having a different problem). This is Apple software crushing the **** out of a JPEG with insane noise-reduction and/or sharpness enhancement. I think what happened is they were trying to please "the masses" who want fast, sharp, clean photos, and went WAY too far processing the JPEGs for that purpose.

If anyone uses Lightroom on the desktop, you can replicate this easily. Take a picture straight from camera, and jack the sharpening slider and luminance noise reduction slider all the way up. Voila, a painting. The only difference is on the iPhone you don't have a choice...

AAgree entirely. That's what my own tests tell me as well . My 5 shots looks the same if overcooked with sharpening.

Just to finish , meant to say it seems they've tried too hard to make the images look crisp when viewed by the masses on the phone screen itself at the expense of the few who want a good quality file for printing or publishing later.

My solution was going to be to shoot in RAW (DNG) then process myself on PC using Lightroom but surprised to find my LR5 won't open the DNG files - baffled!

Hi Bro,

Same here, the iphone 7 Plus camera is crab. I hope that apple could do somthing about this.

I hope so... Really bad, I can not believe...

Also I sent "bug report" today for this big bug !

Bug report page: https://bugreport.apple.com/

And one another bad sample photo today from IPhone 7 plus... !

I have been using Camera+ since the update with JPG High and the quality is markedly better compared to what I had. I can't use live photos or portrait mode but there you go, better than nothing until I either get a refund or give up and Pixel it...