Grainy photos iPhone XS

I have exactly the same problem. My iPhone X took better pictures than my new iPhone XS. The problem is that iPhone XS software (due to the newly introduced smart HDR) takes all pictures at considerably higher ISO values than iPhone X, for example, hence the extreme noise on almost every picture taken in anything less than very bright light. Very disappointing, when zoomed in, the quality of the photos is appalling. Portrait mode indoors - a disaster...no matter the skin - it is so grainy that it looks like a picture taken with the cheapest smartphone available. 😠

Anybody was able to find a solution for this? Nighttime selfies or even pictures using the back camera without flash on my XS Max makes the pictures so grainy, kind of blurry, almost like pixelated. Pictures look like they were taken with an old flip flop phone.

I have the same problem! The new XS photos are absolutely horrible! They are extremely grainy and when you take something close up it automatically blurs the background and I don’t want the background blurred in the distance I want it all to be clear. I’m seriously thinking about returning mine. I got it for Christmas and I think I’m going to return it before the deadline because it’s horrible

Agreed! My SE took way way way better pictures than this XS. The photos are absolutely terrible! They are grainy and blurry. I never had that trouble with any of my phones since the very first phone came out in 2007!

I'm having the same issue. Bought the XS and XS max for my wife and I just before Christmas. I had some of our Christmas pictures printed recently and was stunned when they all came out grainy. The same photos from the previous two Christmas's from my 6+ were much better. The supposedly amazing camera in the XS was the reason I bought the new phones. I just came back from the Apple store where they told me that the XS has some automatic filtering that can't be turned off which creates this problem. I'm now debating returning the phones and dropping back to the 8 or hoping for a software fix. I like everything else about the XS except the camera, but that is certainly enough to make me return it.

I have the same problem with my XS max. My iPhone X took better pictures.

It is definitely a problem with the iso settings. The XS max uses up to iso 500. My iPhone X never did this. Apple should fix this software issue!