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Go to Settings > Camera.
You can select resolution and FPS for video & slo-mo. However, you cannot change the photo resolution.
You you will also be able to choose between high efficiency, using HEIF/HEVC, or most compatible, using JPEG/H.264. This does not directly affect the resolution, but does affect how large the photo and video files are.
Your phone's camera is limited by its hardware. Without opening the case and switching out several integrated circuits (and probably modifying the phone's firmware and operating system) you're not going to change that.
And you forget another thing that many cellphone camera enthousiasts overlook when talking about their hardware, and that's the optics. The main limiting factor of most if not all current cellphone cameras isn't the sensor at all, it's the lens that is actually responsible for generating the image.
That tiny piece of plastic (or glass if you're lucky) isn't really capable of providing the data needed for the sensors fitted to most modern cameras with enough resolution.
There's a reason why professional cameras have lenses with front elements that have a diameter of sometimes over 10 centimeter, and can weigh several kilos, and have sensors 24x36mm in size if not much larger in the really high end cameras.
You simply are never going to match that with your phone sensor the size of a nail clipping and ditto lens.
Hey everyone
I’ve just bought the iPhone 11 and started exploring its cameras. I made two identical photos on wide and ultra wide cameras and noticed that the photo from the last one is much less detailed than the first one. The files’ sizes are the same — around 3 megabytes, but the objects are less sharp on ultra wide and I can zoom deeper on the wide camera’s photo. Here’re the screenshots of zoomed images: ultra and regular. Here’re the originals: ultra and regular.
I thought the cameras are identical and have the same MP resolution. What’s the reason of this difference?