Washed out colors in Portrait mode on IOS12

I experienced the same issue with my portrait mode camera on my iPhone 8 Plus after updating my phone to iOS 12. It was greyed out, extremely pixelated and would not take portrait photos.

I updated my phone to the iOS 12.1.1 yesterday evening and now it is working completely normal and as it should. If you have not already done this update, this should fix the problem. Hope this helps :)

I've just done a quick test in low light, which is when the problem tends to exhibit itself, and it appears to be fixed in 12.1. I've yet to try it at night but by quick test was dark enough that it would have been problematic on iOS 12.

Updating to iOS 12.1 seems to have fixed the issue for me, too. No more faded colors in Portrait Mode in the native Camera app or the ProCamera and ProCam 6 apps.

After a bit of testing, I don't think this is a Portrait Mode bug per se. I think it's a software issue with the telephoto lens.

I've got an iPhone X running iOS 12.0.1, and I get the same washed out colors when using the telephoto (2x) lens in regular Photo Mode.

Some things I've found:

1) Bug appeared only after updating to iOS 12. This was never a problem in iOS 11.

2) Bug occurs in both Portrait Mode and 2x Photo Mode. (The reason you may not notice this bug in 2x Photo Mode is that the iPhone doesn't always use the telephoto lens when you switch to 2x zoom. If the lighting is low, the iPhone simply uses 2x digital zoom with its wide-angle lens.)

3) Bug is not limited to the iPhone's native Camera app. It occurs when using Portrait Mode and 2x Photo Mode in both the ProCam 6 and ProCamera apps, too.

I really hope this is fixed with iOS 12.1, because the camera is the main reason I got the iPhone X.

Okay, for me with the new 12.1 update has completely fixed the problem on my iPhone X 🙂

I was able to reproduce the issue in a screen capture...

IMG_1840.TRIM on Vimeo

In the first part of the video, the camera is in regular "Photo" mode, zoomed in about as far as the "Portrait" mode does. Moving the camera on and off axis, shows the color rendition is consistent in "Photo" mode. As soon as I switch to "Portrait" mode and do the same thing, you can see the colors turn to garbage.

It might be related to the exposure metering due to the contrast in the black and white background, but if so, then why do "Photo" mode photos still look great?

I have this problem too! From my messing around it seems you could temporarily resolve this by lowering the exposure after you manually focus on your subject.

Are the washed out photos similarly washed out when you view them in Photos, OR just in the camera app while you're taking the portrait picture?

I noticed the wash out in the camera app, but oddly, when I review the photos in Photos, the color seems fine?

Hi, I too have the exact same issue on my X. The closest hack I’ve discovered to restoring the colours to normal is:

1. Focus on the Subject, just like you always do.

2. Now when the Exposure Slider appears, just drag it down a bit.

Tada!

Same issue. Went to Apple store and they gave me a new rear facing camera. Issue did not resolve. Went back and they gave me a new iphone X and still the issue has not resolved. Clearly has to be an ios bug at this point? I guess just have to wait for an update?

Yes. Portrait photo mode, not orientation of the phone. Happening on my iPhone 8+ as well.

Please report this issue to http://apple.com/feedback

As advised by apple customer service team

I also have this problem on my iPhone X in Portrait Mode with iOS 12, it’s really annoying! Tested on a XS Max and it worked fine.

A better place to report the issue is bugreport.apple.com though.

I m facing the different issue after the update of iOS 12. I have updated my iPhone to iOS 12, and the phone now takes blurry pictures. I've tried a few things (cleaned the lens, restarted my phone, played with the camera settings), but nothing helped. is there anything else I can do to fix iPhone camera blurry after update? Or do anyone else having the same problem?