User Reviews: Camera

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  • Good, but not great

    Three feature requests:
    1) time lapse speed control. Time lapse mode automatic stability is amazing, but why does it fix its length to 10 seconds? Why not give a slider that directly controls the playback speed and not just decide what is best for the user? Terrible. I love time lapses, but the time fix makes this unusable.
    2) 360 degree panoramas. The panorama mode takes the highest resolution pans I have ever seen. But it doesn’t get a full rotation. At max it gets like 270* of rotation. Just make it a wraparound already.
    3) photo sphere capture. It would be great to have a mode that will help you make a photo sphere and stitch it on-device. I have to use a third-party app in order to do photo spheres. Google has already beaten you to the punch, by the way, as they have integrated photo sphere capture into the default camera app on their Pixels.
    I am seriously considering throwing my iPhone XR away and getting a Google Pixel for the sole reason that the Pixel cameras are way better than iPhone cameras. Never mind that iPhones have way more polishing in their GUIs, never mind that iPhones have way more powerful processors than competitor phones of the same price. The camera, in my and many others’ opinion, is the main selling point of the smartphone.
    Basically, pick up your game.
  • Horrific iPhone 15 Pro Max Photos

    Macro photos are the worst on iPhone 15 pro max. Flower photos look horrific, over digitized and filtered. Also, just took a bunch of photos of the ocean, the same ocean I always photograph over the years and in the display the photos look colorful, bright clear, beautiful then when I go back to view in photos they look dark and pixilated as if I used an ancient flip phone!! If they don’t change this dreadful feature they will begin to lose market share. Macro photos look like they’re straight up watercolor paintings or comic book cartoon art. They’re too digitized and automatically filtered. iPhones are worse than their competitors now. I upgraded from iPhone 12 Pro Max to iPhone 15 Pro Max. Huge mistake!! The 12PM took amazing photos and now the 15PM is painful and depressing to use. Don’t buy it!! It’s the worst camera app. It’s as if Apple now uses the absolute worst camera app technology. The camera adds horrific filters and automatic edits that can’t be turned off! We no longer have creative control of our own photography when using the iPhone camera!!
  • Bug flipping between internal <> external lenses

    Previously the quick action camera from Lock Screen didn’t open, then miraculously started working this week after a recent update. All camera systems seemed perfect. Then on 11/3 the external lens displayed a black screen, first observed in Chase app’s Deposit Check feature. Further investigation reveals all external lenses are black screen and click button doesn’t work. Followed standard guidelines like checking for more software updates (then updated to iOS 17.1) and restarting device. Then, the external lens screen shows a blurry selfie with no click button; can then restart app and regain click button but still black screen.
    Software seems to be struggling to flip between internal and external lenses.
    Please fix software!
  • Isaac Mullen

    I have been taking videos and photos forever and it feels so good to just get into it. The main thing is that when I go to video it just shows the hdr and live and how much you would use for your videos. I would love it if you get very creative with the background. I just do not want to show myself in those videos. If you change it into different variations of backgrounds and special effects, it could help with future videos for me to talk about different topics that I would cover in video. Not everyone has a topic so if you look at my review, you should respond pretty soon rather than later thanks
  • Why?!

    It’s annoying when I open the app, it takes a few seconds for the camera to load. What if I want to take a picture of something and then it goes away and I couldn’t take the picture because of the stupid camera? And also when you zoom up on something, it’s gets really grainy. This is annoying, you can’t even see what it is! And also, when you take a picture, you’re sure that you focused the camera, and turns out the picture is really blurry? This is so annoying! I wish there was a feature that would make a blurry picture clear! But of course, there isn’t! And when you edit a picture (like you add text or something), it turns off Live Photo! C’mon, Apple, the world is able to do amazing things, and you can’t even make it possible to have a Live Photo with text?!
  • Black screen on camera

    I’ve always loved my iPhone camera. Since the first iPhone I got, I haven’t had another phone since. Always iPhones. Always loved the camera….until recently…

    I updated my iOS just before 16 came out I think. So I downloaded 15.7 and since then my camera hasn’t worked. The front camera (selfie mode) works fine. The back camera works, because it works in other apps like Tiktok. But whenever I try to just use the regular camera app, like I loyally, always have, I can’t take the pictures!! Only if I want to take it from the selfie camera.

    I’ve tried all the “tricks” I’ve found. NONE of them work. The only ones I haven’t tried are reset the phone completely, or tried updating the iOS. I don’t really want to because I’ve seen people having this issue since getting iOS 16 as well…..come on Apple! Stop changing whatever you did, cuz you messed up your very dependable camera!
  • I need it I love it

    OK let’s just say I love it I need it everyone needs it you should have it if you look at this with you get it OK if you don’t have it get it it’s probably free and I will try it with my phone number but still you need to get it I love it you will love it ever would love it so all of it because you know people need to take pictures and memories that you don’t have to keep in your brain like extra storage for your brain can you too many pictures you just like you have too many pictures of them so then I just let it go through but you know even the camera camera is amazing just get it OK thank you much ok now months later it is not on my Home Screen lol and I have shut my iPad off and turn it on and then swipe to the right so I can’t just click camera I literally have to shut it off which makes no sense
  • Flash is garbage

    I switched from the iPhone 8 to the iPhone 11. On the iPhone 8, the camera was good. It had nice quality and settings. The iPhone 11 is even better when it comes to those very same categories. Unfortunately, that’s not what this is about. The iPhone 11’s camera flash is a problem, u like the iPhone 8. It, the 11, has a flash that is too bright. When you use the flash of a camera, you expect it to nicely light the surrounding area for a good photo in the dark or wherever you may be. That is not the case with the iPhone 11’s camera flash. The camera flash causes the entire photo to be white. You can see the surrounding area or maybe even the person you took a picture of but it’s bright. The person in the photo’s entire physique is so illuminated and not them due to the flash. I simply wish there was a way to adjust the brightness of the camera’s flash. Something similar to the way we can adjust the brightness of our flashlights in the settings but noooo
  • I found a new bug!

    My camera is constantly focusing and then unfocusing over and over again. No matter what mode I select the camera continuously will focus for a quarter of a second and the unfocus, just to refocus again. Over and over again without end. I don’t know to do. Even when I cover the camera lens with my fingers to block all light the camera still does it. Not sure what to do. (Amazing camera when it worked tho) ————————————————- Update: (1 minute has passed) my phone shut itself down and restarted after I went back into the camera app. The camera now works fine! Cool to see self correcting software! ❤️
  • bug

    I bought a new iphone 13 pro max and using the latest IOS. I found the camera software works very weird. Whenever I switch to the video mode, the entire screen becomes super bright, so is the record video. If I record a moving object such as a running baby, the video may become blurry suddenly and takes a few seconds to go back to normal. When taking photos, the camera randomly switches between its three cameras and sometimes it zoomed out the 1x camera instead of using the 3x directly, and the photos look noisy. In general I am very disappointed to buy such an expensive iPhone which cannot even take videos. Why such a giant company cannot even fully test your software before releasing it? I have contacted the customer service and it took me nearly an hour but still cannot figure out why. I am a little mad, to be honest.