2018 MacBook Air HD camera is in poor quality.

I accidentally clicked "Helpful". :)

Ruskes, what is your point in this thread? You keep giving some failed advice to improve the quality. Do you even understand how cameras work? You won’t get decent image quality from a crappy hardware. This camera doesn’t capture enough image information to make it look solid. You wait for one person to agree that you made him or her get better image quality or what?

This camera is terrible under bright conditions too, I tested myself. The quality is unacceptable. There is no such thing as "you are in too dark room". I guess no one of us lives in a basement. If a video call camera is unable to handle room light then it’s just useless. Please stop deluding people in this thread. We need camera replacement, not "changing rooms" LOL.

I just got the new Macbook Air 2018, and its camera is terrible, it has to be broken when delivered new. The old MacBook Air camera has better picture quality, so i was not happy after using the new MacBook Air 2018

So I clicked on this thread hoping to read there is a simple solution.

Instead I am just number 1xxx.

Got my new Macbook Air 2018 last week. Extremely blurry camera from the beginning in any app and with any user.

Previously I had a Macbook Air 2013. The quality is way better. If I copy the Air13 foto to the new mac it is still way better so the "better display makes it look worse" argument is nonesense.

Also the image received by someone Facetiming or Skyping with me is worse. WAY worse.

I am also having a problem with battery that is doing nowhere near as long as promised (also less long than the 5 year old Macbook Air, whose battery never got changed) and guess I have to return it.

Hi Boris

Thank you for reporting your problems with your MBA.

That is what I call trowing the monkey wrench.

Also the image received by someone Facetiming or Skyping with me is worse. WAY worse.

You are the first to report that the image RECEIVED is also bad assuming the other person does not have bad camera to begin with.

So you are saying not only is the Mac camera bad but the whole video process ?

Can you confirm or clarify your statement or even better use Facetime or Skype between the two Macs you have (call each other), and see what happens.

I agree with you in general, but calling this MacBook garbage is too much. It has a great body quality and aesthetics, great speakers, surprisingly great keyboard.

But the camera is indeed crap and Apple’s attitude is unacceptable. The camera is very bad in the daylight too, so their explanations are pushed. On the side note, I need to also test the battery life. So far I feel like it’s nowhere 12 hours or even nowhere 8 hours. Another false advertising, but I need to do exact testing.

Talked to Apple Support. No solution. Advised to go to the local Apple Authorized Service Provider ... 100km from me. 😟

Update. My fault, today I played with the Air in the shop, compared with the old Air. I was wrong, same sh*t.

Tried different things with apple support on the phone.

Reset SMC and nvram and reinstall os from scratch. No joy

A fatal 480p .. I don't know if is from apple or another company.

The 12 inch MacBooks use UVC. Not only is the camera junk, the laptop is as well. For around $200 more you can get a 13" pro with far superior hardware than the 12" MacBook.

Totally disappointed and unacceptable camera quality on the new MacBook Air 2018 worse than even an iphone4s. No resolution found may be returning is the only option.

I sent them my feedback. And I returned my MB Air on 11/25/18

Agree with Ricky here that my 2015 MacBook Air camera is drastically better than the 2018. I will be returning my 2018 MacBook Air on or before January 8th.

Even during the sunny hours, the quality is barely acceptable. And still much worse than earlier models.