iPhone 11 Pro Blurred photos in photos app

[jackbauer1909]

Hey there,

I‘m having problems with the 11 Pro camera. Whenever I take a photo in normal 1x photo mode, the image is shown slighty blurred in the photos app. When I zoom in slightly, the image becomes MUCH sharper. I did a screenshot showing this effect. First view in the gallery:

Then, the same picture with just minimal zoom, only slightly pinching in. Look especially onto my shoe and the cat‘s fur.

Photos are stored on the phone, not in the cloud. Tested the image format several times, no difference regarding this problem between high efficiency and maximum compatibility. The image does not stay that sharp, next time I have to zoom in again.
I already reset the iPhone, no change...

Any ideas whats happening here?
I dont think there is a hardware defect as the picture is taken with full resolution, it‘s just not displayed at first...

Thanks in advance!

 

[Packers1958]

Hey there,

I‘m having problems with the 11 Pro camera. Whenever I take a photo in normal 1x photo mode, the image is shown slighty blurred in the photos app. When I zoom in slightly, the image becomes MUCH sharper. I did a screenshot showing this effect. First view in the gallery:

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Then, the same picture with just minimal zoom, only slightly pinching in. Look especially onto my shoe and the cat‘s fur.

View attachment 864259

Photos are stored on the phone, not in the cloud. Tested the image format several times, no difference regarding this problem between high efficiency and maximum compatibility. The image does not stay that sharp, next time I have to zoom in again.
I already reset the iPhone, no change...

Any ideas whats happening here?
I dont think there is a hardware defect as the picture is taken with full resolution, it‘s just not displayed at first...

Thanks in advance!

Go into Settings, Camera, Formats and switch from High Efficiency to Most Compatible. See if that helps.

 

[QquegChristian]

Go into Settings, Camera, Formats and switch from High Efficiency to Most Compatible. See if that helps.

There are now features that require High Efficiency to be on though.

To the OP... I JUST had this happen to me earlier! Also on a cat picture. (Gotta test these new phones). It was sharp, then I edited it and it was blurry. Then I edited it again and it was sharp. I was so confused because I though HIEF was nondestructive but it looked like a terribly bad JPEG copy before it was fixed.

Am on 13.1, didn’t notice this last night on 13. Hopefully whatever this is is patched quickly.

In general, I am pretty unimpressed with the speed of the camera on my 11 Pro. When I launch the camera it’s a black screen for a full second, whereas I remember instantaneous launch in the past. Sometimes it says “loading” when you go to edit a photo. Sometimes it takes a second to save edits. Other times it doesn’t have to load so I’m not sure if that’s a RAM thing. I don’t give a crap about RAM if things work, I’m just observing that there are times this new processor doesn’t feel snappy when it comes to editing photos. It reminds me of Lightroom on my computer...stopping to load before allowing edits!

Some low(ish) light shots that don’t activate Night Mode have a 1 sec delay on the shutter for no reason. To where I snap the picture and then move the camera and THEN it takes the picture. Even when physically turning off Night Mode to ensure it wasn’t kicking on last second, I’ve had this happen. And it isn’t a blended exposure it takes either, just a single photo that doesn’t snap until a second after hitting the button. It isn’t doing the fade up for Night Mode either... just a delayed snap. Have not seen that since updating to 13.1 but I only updated 3 hours ago so time will tell.

I’m also not liking that Night Mode doesn’t give much feedback at all when it is set to 1 sec. Love the little countdown at the bottom for longer exposures like 3 secs. But you don’t get that for 1 sec. It’s very easy to not notice that Night Mode is active on the top left and you get very little warning that you should be holding still for a second. I feel like this is a bug, because even when the countdown wheel is visible it doesn’t countdown the 1 sec. Mostly annoying in mixed indoor lighting where you sometimes need it and sometimes don’t.

 

[IamScotty]

I’m loving the camera and the night mode! Great step forward! And yes high compatible setting much better imo if you need to use high efficiency for capture outside the frame or 4K at 60fps then switch back and forth.

 

[ApplePieAlaMode]

There are now features that require High Efficiency to be on though.

To the OP... I JUST had this happen to me earlier! Also on a cat picture. (Gotta test these new phones). It was sharp, then I edited it and it was blurry. Then I edited it again and it was sharp. I was so confused because I though HIEF was nondestructive but it looked like a terribly bad JPEG copy before it was fixed.

Am on 13.1, didn’t notice this last night on 13. Hopefully whatever this is is patched quickly.

In general, I am pretty unimpressed with the speed of the camera on my 11 Pro. When I launch the camera it’s a black screen for a full second, whereas I remember instantaneous launch in the past. Sometimes it says “loading” when you go to edit a photo. Sometimes it takes a second to save edits. Other times it doesn’t have to load so I’m not sure if that’s a RAM thing. I don’t give a crap about RAM if things work, I’m just observing that there are times this new processor doesn’t feel snappy when it comes to editing photos. It reminds me of Lightroom on my computer...stopping to load before allowing edits!

Some low(ish) light shots that don’t activate Night Mode have a 1 sec delay on the shutter for no reason. To where I snap the picture and then move the camera and THEN it takes the picture. Even when physically turning off Night Mode to ensure it wasn’t kicking on last second, I’ve had this happen. And it isn’t a blended exposure it takes either, just a single photo that doesn’t snap until a second after hitting the button. It isn’t doing the fade up for Night Mode either... just a delayed snap. Have not seen that since updating to 13.1 but I only updated 3 hours ago so time will tell.

I’m also not liking that Night Mode doesn’t give much feedback at all when it is set to 1 sec. Love the little countdown at the bottom for longer exposures like 3 secs. But you don’t get that for 1 sec. It’s very easy to not notice that Night Mode is active on the top left and you get very little warning that you should be holding still for a second. I feel like this is a bug, because even when the countdown wheel is visible it doesn’t countdown the 1 sec. Mostly annoying in mixed indoor lighting where you sometimes need it and sometimes don’t.

I’m having the exact same issues as you. I’m hoping this is a bug that will be improved because I can’t handle the lag. It’s so bad!!!

 

[MrAperture]

It's the low-res version that you're quickly viewing.

 

[QquegChristian]

I’m loving the camera and the night mode! Great step forward! And yes high compatible setting much better imo if you need to use high efficiency for capture outside the frame or 4K at 60fps then switch back and forth.

Capture outside the frame is one feature you can’t plan to need/use. It could be very useful or not, hard to tell until you need it.

I guess I have to do some in-depth tests cause I am generally skeptical that the compression is visually the same but love the idea that it is nondestructive and 10bit color.

I used to keep it on Most Compatible but now Lightroom and Premiere support the new formats anyway. But now that I think about it, if edits are nondestructive, I doubt they would transfer over to Lightroom and all my photos would end up looking bland once I back them up.

 

[jackbauer1909]

Thanks for your answers.

The format doesn‘t matter, it happens with most compatible AND with high efficiency, there is no difference.
Furthermore, it‘s not like a „lag“ or something, the pictures won‘t sharpen automatically...

I started to notice this effect with 13.1, I THINK it wasn‘t there with 13.0, but not sure..