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pt3000

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Hey guys first post here, go easy on me. Purchased an iPhone 11, coming from an 8plus. Love the phone! I’m not sure if it’s my phone but why does the photo quality on photos in Facebook and Instagram look so crappy? Is it because of the LCD display? Does it look different to anyone else? Maybe I need to get the pro for the better quality? Just curious. Thanks!
 
Thanks to the Horrible compressing of those images uploaded to Facebook and Instagram, you will never have nice looking images on both platforms period. Don’t bother buying an iPhone 11 Pro because of that, as OLED won’t save you on this one either.
 
Hey guys first post here, go easy on me. Purchased an iPhone 11, coming from an 8plus. Love the phone! I’m not sure if it’s my phone but why does the photo quality on photos in Facebook and Instagram look so crappy? Is it because of the LCD display? Does it look different to anyone else? Maybe I need to get the pro for the better quality? Just curious. Thanks!
I don‘t use those social media platforms regularly, but are you sure you don’t have some data saving setting enabled maybe?
 
Hey guys thanks for the responses. It’s my lcd display. It’s not as sharp and bright as the other iPhone 11s I compared in the store. Gonna return and replace on Monday, they’re sold out in my area.
 
There is a really big thread on Apple‘s forum about similar, Snapchat and instagram (not much re FB). Lots of emotion. Specifically its about the front (selfie) camera. And, pics and videos taken Within the IG, SC apps. Even worse when they zoom. Majority complaints re 11 Pro (So don’t get a pro to fix your issue, it will make it worse)

They blame the phone‘s camera, and Apple. The front camera on iPhones does not zoom natively, never has. Any Zooming, and image processing including the significant compression these apps do, is done by the app....not by iOS. Not surprising worst complaints re 11 Pro. It’s 12 MP front camera is 2x the resolution of any previouse iPhone, this probably caught IG an SC unprepared.

These are IG, SC, and possibly FB app issues, for them to fix in their apps...not iPhone 11 or 11 pro camera problem.
 
There is a really big thread on Apple‘s forum about similar, Snapchat and instagram (not much re FB). Lots of emotion. Specifically its about the front (selfie) camera. And, pics and videos taken Within the IG, SC apps. Even worse when they zoom. Majority complaints re 11 Pro (So don’t get a pro to fix your issue, it will make it worse)

They blame the phone‘s camera, and Apple. The front camera on iPhones does not zoom natively, never has. Any Zooming, and image processing including the significant compression these apps do, is done by the app....not by iOS. Not surprising worst complaints re 11 Pro. It’s 12 MP front camera is 2x the resolution of any previouse iPhone, this probably caught IG an SC unprepared.

These are IG, SC, and possibly FB app issues, for them to fix in their apps...not iPhone 11 or 11 pro camera problem.

Everything looks washed out on my phone, not clear. The cameras are good though. Even when comparing to other 11s in the store, the contrast/blacks were even darker. When I go to social media, there are friends of mine who took photos with their x, xs, xs Max and I remember their photos looking great when I had my 8 plus. Everything looks bad, almost like everyone has low quality cameras
 
You might should trade for another 11 if you still can. OLED vs. LCD is not your issu.
 
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Hey friend, I have the same issue with Instagram. Pictures are pixelated/low resolution from others.
Could you resolve it?

Best regards
 
what you can do to test out the picture quality is to take a picture with your phone and see image quality of the photo

or watch a high resolution video on YouTube to see if picture quality is different.

Social media doesn’t upload full image quality so that’s another reason
 
Thanks for the response. I am able to zoom on a samsung Smartphone on a Instagram post while keeping details. On my iphone 11 the resolutions only in Instagram are low. Its pixelated. Normal photos in the gallery look sharp on both.
 
Hey guys first post here, go easy on me. Purchased an iPhone 11, coming from an 8plus. Love the phone! I’m not sure if it’s my phone but why does the photo quality on photos in Facebook and Instagram look so crappy? Is it because of the LCD display? Does it look different to anyone else? Maybe I need to get the pro for the better quality? Just curious. Thanks!
Totally same problem here. Every social media looks sharpless sometimes blurry & pixelates. Does anyone got some problem solved?
 
Maybe you could post a screenshot so we can see what you mean and compare it ourselves.
 
Like mentioned, social media compresses the resolution of photos. Generally less than 1 megapixel. I just picked a random image a friend of mine posted....

IMG_41B21E959A0B-1.jpeg

So we all know that social media uploads suck, no news there....Zooming into that pic above will look like crap.

Comparing your old phone to your new phone....

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Both LCD's with the 11 having BETTER contrast but WORSE resolution/PPI. So it shouldn't look washed out, but will have lower detail.

Another oddity about the plus models (6+,7+ and 8+) is scaling. Due to the pixel density (PPI) and its size they had to use 3x scaling. So it rendered at 1242x2208, that rendered resolution exceeds the display resolution so the its then downsampled to 1080x1920 which is ~87%.

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That imperfect downsampling generally this comes with negative effects however at such a high PPI its imperfect downsample isn't noticeable without close inspection. Keep in mind other iPhones use scaling 2x/3x but they scale to the display resolution so there is no need to downsample.

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I'm probably completely incorrect however it seems like this could lend itself to being similar to supersampling (rendering in high res displaying in lower for SSAA) depending how the image is handled. Maybe not though...

I would recommend going to the Apple store and set your phone next to another 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max and compare.
 
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