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jon08

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Nov 14, 2008
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Hi,

This is really frustrating. It seems that most of the pics you take photos in the shade or on a darker/cloudy day, turn out to be too dark on iPhone 15 Pro.

I'm using the default settings:

- Standard photographic style
- 4:3 format
- View Full HDR ON
- No night shift or true tone

Switching from tiny iPhone XS camera lense to a much bigger iPhone 15 Pro, I expected to see nicely lit and/or bright photos due to larger lenses and thus having much more light let in, but so far it's been a huge disappointment to say the least.

I take lots of pics during hiking, often in nature (forest etc), and I've been noticing for a while now that pictures just seem turn out darker than the actual light conditions that the pic was taken under. For example, a picture of a tree in a semi-dense forest will simply turn out too dark, so I'm really disappointed with this, as we all know iPhone cameras are made as point-and-shoot cameras with the computational "magic" behind-the-scenes making sure that the photos turn out great without having to tweak the photos much.

Tapping on the object on the screen or any other parts of the screen before shooting in the shade doesn't seem to play much role at all! I also tried changing the exposure a bit, but that can quickly make the photo too bright with loss of details, so it also doesn't seem to really help.

It seems Apple made this by design, and it's thoroughly annoying. It seems at this point only they could fix it with a software update! Is Apple aware of this issue at all?
 
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