Does iOS 16 fix iPhone 13 camera "over post-processing" problems?

[MrDoh]

My daughter tells me that the post-processing of photos on her iPhone 13 Pro Max is really driving her crazy. She was complaining about the skin tones on people being unnatural and general contrast and over-sharpening problems. I'm hoping to find out if this over post-processing will be fixed in iOS 16. If not, I suspect that she'll be shopping for a new phone real soon.

Does anyone know if Apple's working on this, or can point me to a data base of the fixes slated to go into iOS 16? There seems to be a very large number of complaints out there, but that doesn't mean that Apple has noticed.

Thanks!

 

[ediks]

My daughter tells me that the post-processing of photos on her iPhone 13 Pro Max is really driving her crazy. She was complaining about the skin tones on people being unnatural and general contrast and over-sharpening problems. I'm hoping to find out if this over post-processing will be fixed in iOS 16. If not, I suspect that she'll be shopping for a new phone real soon.

Does anyone know if Apple's working on this, or can point me to a data base of the fixes slated to go into iOS 16? There seems to be a very large number of complaints out there, but that doesn't mean that Apple has noticed.

Thanks!

sadly, i think that this will be "fixed" with iPhone 14 Pro, if there was someone working on it, it wouldve been fixed long time ago
i noticed it too on my 13 Pro, sometimes the photo comes out as huge HDR mess, i would at least welcome the option to turn the smart HDR off like it was possible on 12 Pro and older

 

[Slartibart]

Try to unselect Settings > Photos > "View Full HDR".

If that doesn’t improve the visuals to your satisfaction, the only way to really turn off Deep Fusion and photo auto-enhance on iOS, is to download Halide and shoot in RAW. That’s pretty much the only option you’ve got where you have a distinct option to turn this feature off.

 

[MrDoh]

sadly, i think that this will be "fixed" with iPhone 14 Pro, if there was someone working on it, it wouldve been fixed long time ago
i noticed it too on my 13 Pro, sometimes the photo comes out as huge HDR mess, i would at least welcome the option to turn the smart HDR off like it was possible on 12 Pro and older

You know, my opinion is that this is a software processing problem. So if Apple fixes it for the iPhone 14, hopefully that would also fix it for the iPhone 13 (iOS 16 or later). At any rate, they'll have to intentionally fix their photo post-processing, looks like.

Just my opinion, though *smile*.

 

[ian6969]

I think all we can do about the over-processing on the iPhone 13 is keep raising it as a bug with Apple. I emailed Craig Fenderighi directly - I didn’t get a reply from him, but a member of the help team did call me from America (I’m in the UK). It wasn’t like the normal help service, we talked in depth about the issues and I transferred several photos to him that he wanted to give to the software team. I now use Halide (I purchased it before the subscription change) whenever I’m taking photos of people faces.

 

[Slartibart]

I now use Halide (I purchased it before the subscription change) whenever I’m taking photos of people faces.

You can still buy Hallide Mark II outright with a single in-app purchase if you prefer.

 

[sewerx]

I just encountered this problem. This morning I took my first photos with 13 mini and I’m very disappointed with the over-post-processing. At this moment, the iPhone 13 camera app is almost unusable for me. The option to turn off automatic HDR is a must!

 

[MrDoh]

I've suggested to my daughter that she try a free trial of Halide. She's pretty excited at the outset, hope that it works out for her.

Expensive phone to have to do an end-run around the built-in photo processing. I wonder if Apple is aware how disappointing this is to customers? I guess only if there's enough complaints that they start to think it might affect sales, then they might make the effort to fix it.

 

[Populus]

I see there are other apps in the App Store that allow you to shoot in RAW, so I guess Halide is not the only option? Because it is pretty expensive.

Has anyone tried ProCam 8 by Tineworks Apps, or Pro Camera by Moment? I think those allow you to shoot in RAW for much less money.