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How can I get the best quality of photos on an iPhone 13?

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Depends on how much work you want to put in. Shooting with RAW instead of JPEG or HEIF can give you the absolute best photo quality without a doubt! ..... if you know how to edit photos that is. Because that is a requirement when using RAW. If you just want to point-n-shoot without any editing, you're much more limited. Either just take photos the way you normally do, and deal with the way your phone automatically applies processing (boosting saturation, applying sharpening, "HDR" effects.etc). Shooting "bursts" will apply slightly less of that processing, which is preferable for some. Or. If you want realistic "true to life" looking photos, but still without the need to edit them. There are some third party apps that gives you that option. Answer from Deleted User on reddit.com

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r/iPhoneography on Reddit: How can I get the best quality of photos on an iPhone 13?

October 22, 2023 -

What is the best camera settings and feature to use when taking photos and videos with an iPhone 13? I'm going to New York this December and want to make sure i get the best photos and quality. I'm not bothered about saving space as I'm going to pay for extra storage on iCloud when i go. So storage probably wont be an issue.

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r/iphone on Reddit: How i can get the best camera quality with iphone 13 pro max ?

June 26, 2025 -

Hi so i have an iphone 13 pro max and i dont like its camera quality tho i see other people have an iPhone and a good quality camera so if anyone here can show me how i should set my settings and etc i will be thankful for that :D ( sorry about my bad english )

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The settings aren’t the issue, it’s the camera app’s over-processing. You can’t change these unless you shoot in ProRaw format, but this isn’t worth it for most people unless you’re editing all your photos and okay with massive file sizes. As u/jpegfanboy has mentioned, try using third party apps and see if you like your photos better. These apps avoid the egregious sharpening and tone mapping. Some other apps I’d also recommend trying are No Fusion, mood camera, and (Not Boring) Camera. Most of these offer a free tier that you can give a try!

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There are lots of apps but your best bet would be to try shooting in RAW and ProRAW. There is Halide app but it is kinda expensive as one time purchase and as subscription too. It has “zero-process mode” which is basically a RAW photo that is automatically processed and instantly converted to usable JPEG or HEIF file. Also there is a new entry - Camac. It costs just 20$ for full version and can be used for free too. It can shoot RAW images, though interface is kinda hard to understand. Also I’ve heard about Adobe’s Project Indigo camera but I had not used it. I used built-in RAW camera in Lightroom app (also can be used for free) and it seemed to be good enough. To shoot in Apple’s ProRAW you need to enable it in camera settings. It can give more natural colors at times, but noise reduction is still baked in

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reddit.com › r/iphone › what is the best camera setting for iphone 13?

r/iphone on Reddit: What is the best camera setting for Iphone 13?

January 22, 2023 -

I want to try photographies as hobbie because I have Iphone. But when I tried take a picture I feel all the pictures I take is a let down. I know one reason because I am a newbie with iphone. Can you guys share any tips about this and I want to post it on instagram to as stories and post. Any suggestion may helping my problem

I am sorry for bad english

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Do this: Point the camera at the scene/subject. Look at it, especially around the edges. Is there lots of extraneous, distraction there? If so, zoom in some. Take one shot as is. Touch the screen in a darker area of the image so that the light metering box reads the light there. Take that shot. Touch in a lighter area and take that shot. Review the three and choose your favorite. Choose Edit Choose the … option and duplicate the pic to save an original. At the bottom it offers many options. Slide them across to see what each does. Editing is a huge key. But don’t over-edit unless you like that look. At the very bottom you can choose to tint or crop the image. Save your recited version. This is a good start.

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Try the app camera+

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r/iphone on Reddit: What’s the best camera settings?

November 11, 2025 -

Hey!

So, my iPhone’s running iOS 26, and my picture quality are getting worse. It looks grainy, when I want to take zoomed picture it’s awful… I’m not too happy with the final look. The pictures looks better at night (videos are still fine, at least!)

Here are my settings: Did I mess something up? What are yours like? I’m really not a fan of my pictures anymore.

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Maybe turn off everything in "preserve settings" other than "live mode" - leave that in and turn off Live Photos in the camera app Everything else should then reset to defaults when you open the camera so if you have messed a setting it will be back to how you got it One thing to note about zooming; phone cameras don't generally do optical zoom, then just take a digital picture then resize it, which does give poor results all round, as you cannot invent missing information. Move closer to your subject rather than using any form of zoom

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Should have pro raw and resolution control turned on really so you can take 48mp photos, otherwise it defaults to 24mp

reddit.com › r/iphone › what are the camera settings in an iphone store?

r/iphone on Reddit: What are the camera settings in an iphone store?

May 21, 2025 -

So recently I went to the store recently and i compared my iphone 13 camera to the iPhone 13 present in the store there was a major quality diff.. Can anyone tell me why does that happen? Edit: I asked the apple guy he said they make the demo phones different all together.

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Note that stores have good lighting there.

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Did the store have an iPhone 13 on display? For reference, if they’ve got a newer model like 15 or 16 just know that these have bigger camera sensors that ought to make photos to look a lot nicer

reddit.com › r/ios › what are some essential camera tips/tricks on the iphone 13 for beginners that make a lot of difference in photo/video shots?

r/ios on Reddit: What are some essential camera tips/tricks on the Iphone 13 for beginners that make a lot of difference in photo/video shots?

July 17, 2021 -

What are some essential camera tips/tricks on the Iphone 13 for beginners that make a lot of difference in photo/video shots?

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That 3×3 grid that appears on the camera screen? That’s there to assist with composition. Align the subject of your photos with the lines or intersection points. (e.g. Position someone’s face at one of the grid intersection points.) Look up “rule of thirds composition” for more insight on this technique. Be aware of lighting position. Don’t backlight your subject, but also don’t have people looking directly at the sun, unless you want a lot of photos of people squinting. Try to take photos of people in indirect light if you can, so you don’t get harsh shadows.

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Tap to focus, tap to lock exposure settings, lock exposure at a different area, and move camera towards, your subject, etc. Use portrait mode, use grid lines to line up your framing, etc. Take several photos with slightly different settings Using an iPhone is really no different from using a good old film based SLR; your end result is a blend of composition and aperture, exposure time, ISO (sensitivity of film), etc. The big difference is that you can experiment and take hundreds or thousands of photos w/o any cost and pick out the best ones.

reddit.com › r/iphone › what camera settings you use for iphone 13?

r/iphone on Reddit: What camera settings you use for iphone 13?

July 15, 2023 -

Both for photos and videos

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To turn off Lens Correction, go to Settings > Camera, then turn off Lens Correction. On iPhone 12 models, the Scene Detection setting can identify what you’re taking a photo of and apply a tailored look to bring out the best qualities in the scene.

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r/AskAstrophotography on Reddit: What’s the best IPhone 13 Pro Max camera settings?

October 3, 2024 -

Hi has anyone got any recommendations for any apps and iPhone camera settings when it comes to photography? I'm new to this.

Many thanks

Using a Celestron Astromaster 114Eq and Astromaster eyepiece set. With Nexyz phone adapter.

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There won't be one best setting. It will be target dependent and will vary with magnification too. Possibly also sky conditions. Do some test runs and make sure detail is neither over nor under exposed in the frames / subs and make a compromise decision on noise. Go from there. You will want a camera app that offers full manual control and doesn't try to do AI processing. Straight up raw capture. I'm not an iPhone user so don't know the specific apps.

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r/Standup on Reddit: Iphone 13 camera settings

December 3, 2022 -

Anyone have any advice for Iphone camera recording settings? Or any settings they recommend

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I lower the exposure on the camera when I go on stage it helps with how bright the stage lights are and helps keep a deep color contrast while I’m on stage. Film at highest frames per second as possible and highest quality. But obviously you’ll comprise storage. So a 10 minute set at 4k is 750mb per minute x 10 minutes 7.5 gigs Where when I leave it at natural settings I tend to get washed out, and appear super bright.

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I have a 12 promax. I prefer to shoot using the front camera. I go to the camera settings and change the resolution to 60 fps . I turn off the HDR. I shoot in 4K. I always turn up the exposure just a little bit. Are use professional lighting equipment and I use the grid line so that I stay in frame. Once I start incorporating those things, my pictures looked a lot more clear. Almost as if the background was out of focus and I was the main thing.

reddit.com › r/iphoneography › what are the best camera settings for people who want the best quality without being required to do editing?

r/iPhoneography on Reddit: What are the best camera settings for people who want the best quality without being required to do editing?

January 15, 2024 -

There’s been posts and lengthy articles on this topic but responses vary and they’re often complicated.

I’ve ruled out ProRes Log, but everything else I’m not sure about.

Here are some examples:

Enhanced Stabilization

Action Mode Lower Light

Auto FPS

HEIF Max or ProRAW Max

Apple ProRes

Prioritize Faster Shooting

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Enhanced stabilization - this will sacrifice the amount that you can “zoom out” on a video in order to produce a video that isn’t shaky. I highly recommend keeping this on. Action mode lower light - this feature uses the ultra-wide lens while shooting. It allows you to move the camera around a LOT and the end result is buttery-smooth. This process needs a lot of light because it’s using the ultra-wide lens, which needs more light to perform well. If you turn this on, they will let you use it in lower lighting conditions than usual, but the quality of the stabilization and overall image will not be of amazing quality. Off is the default choice here. Auto FPS - I actually hate this feature. It will drop your video frame rate if the light levels are very low. When the frame rate is lower, the sensor has more time to capture light in each frame. Basically it sacrifices your frame rate for a brighter image. In reality, the transition is clunky and 24fps looks really bad for anything other than cinema. I gave it a try for about a week, I’ve left it off ever since. HEIF max vs ProRAW - Use HEIF or HEIF Max as your default (HEIF max allows you to zoom in further to your images). ProRAW captures a LOT more data in your images, which allows you to make heavy edits with lighting and color. If you have no intention heavily editing a photo, keep this off… the photos it takes are huge (upwards of 50x larger than HEIF files). ProRES - If you don’t already know what this is, do not use it. This is for filmmakers. This produces MASSIVE video files that will eat up your storage very quickly. Prioritize faster shooting - What’s more important to you? Taking better photos or being able to snap many pictures back to back quickly, but at a lower quality? I keep this off, I want all my photos to be in the highest quality… but your needs may be different than mine.

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Are you talking about still photography or videography? Generally speaking it is virtually impossible to get the image you have in your mind without doing any editing at all.

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r/iPhone13 on Reddit: Tips for getting better photos out of the 13 Pro?

December 14, 2020 -

I love the 13 Pro, but the smart HDR tends to ruin a lot of the pictures that I have taken. It seems to happen with both the main camera and the telephoto camera.

I upgraded from the iPhone 12, which at least gave people the choice of turning off smart HDR. With the 13 Pro, many of the pictures look... watercolor-like, and it doesn't look appealing at all.

I don't think Apple plans on fixing it, either, since Youtube tech channels have praised the camera quality and the iPhone 14 will launch pretty soon.

Is there anything that can be done to minimize this oversharpened HDR stuff?

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Try different photographic styles and if all else fails turn off view full HDR effect in settings>photos>view full HDR and toggle off. It’s very unfortunate if your one of those people having constant issues with HDR. I’ve had my 13 Pro since launch and like most users and reviewers I’ve been VERY impressed by the cameras performance after taking thousands of photos and owning nearly every iPhone.

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Turning off HDR and live photos + good lighting gave me more consistent quality shots.

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r/electricdaisycarnival on Reddit: Iphone Camera Settings

December 14, 2024 -

Does anyone have a good guide for camera settings on an iphone to take quality pictures at night?

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Focus & lower exposure. Turn off long exposure though. Took this at last years EDC.

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What the person above me said. Separate your friends from the Background by having a back light and side light Or just do all front lit. The long exposure mode is decent on iPhones. I always bring down the exposure just a tad especially if the subject is brighter than the background. You can also do portrait mode @ f1.4 And up the exposure by moving that lil sun icon up.

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r/iphone on Reddit: I found a way to get better photos using the front camera!!

November 20, 2023 -

I just recently discovered that the lighting of the front camera when on video mode is so much better than taking an actual photo. So if you use video instead of photo when taking a selfie... you're actually going to get better results. It's not going to look dark and grayish, AND YOUR PORES AND WRINKLES ARE NOT HIGHLIGHTED. Also, you can just pick the video frame where you look the best.

Edit: This is for those who have iPhone 13 and newer who hate their front camera

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Depending on the exact “problem” you’re experiencing, you can address it in a few other potential ways: Turn off the setting for View Full HDR. Take photos in burst mode to prevent Deep Fusion from activating and letting people see your pores when capturing photos in medium to medium-low light situations. Take photos in portrait mode and use one of the built-in lighting modes, like studio light and contour light. They add realistic lighting to your face (and body) that ends up smoothing out your face a bit. You can edit the intensity of the effect. You can edit also lighting modes when capturing or editing, and you can use them independently of the depth effect, which can be toggled off if you prefer. If you have an iPhone 15, you don’t even need to switch to portrait mode when capturing.

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You can actually take a photo while the video is recording. Just drag the red button to right to start video and then tap the white button on right of screen to take photo when ever you want to.

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r/ios on Reddit: iPhone 13 Pro camera quality and color correction

September 30, 2021 - It adds a significant amount of post processing which you can't turn off (they removed the HDR toggle from settings on the iPhone 13). Low light shots are blurry and look like water color painting and not to mention the terrible face touch up that the front camera does which you can't turn off. The work around at the moment is to purchase a 3rd party camera app that bypasses all of this... I'm super disappointed in this camera. Before you say we are trolling or the camera is broken, there are countless of forum and reddit posts complaining about the quality of the 13 Pro camera and the post processing effects.

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what settings should I set my iPhone to to achieve the look of a digital camera : r/iPhoneography

July 8, 2024 - The iPhone has an equivalent focal lenght of around ~24mm which goes into the wide angle territory, But you can compensate, more or less, with composition. Getting closer to the subject, etc. But you'll still have the characteristics of the phone's lense. ... Turn your flash on. ... The app called HUJI has a disposal film camera look, that may help achieve the look you are going for.

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February 11, 2025 - ↔️ To turn this setting on or off, go to Settings > Camera > toggle on/off View Outside the Frame. Another interesting feature of the iPhone is ‘Prioritize Faster Shooting’. This mode adjusts the quality of the image to prioritize capturing more images when the shutter is pressed rapidly.

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r/iPhone13Pro on Reddit: iPhone 13 Pro camera suckssss

December 23, 2023 -

..sucksss but mostly with selfies and mirror pics. I’ve had this phone for the past year and every time I take a picture or selfie, it makes me look washed out or like a watercolor painting with the auto editing. Has anyone been able to fix this?? I’m really debating on getting a newer phone (even thought about downgrading) but I feel like the issue will still be present. Helppp

Edit: I must say, nature pics and other types of photography/ videography on this phone are great, just struggling with the auto-enhance that takes place on human subjects….

Edit: If you can’t relate or help then why are you here? Everyone saying “it’s just you” is hilarious..but not helpful at all…

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Go to Settings -> Photos, scroll down to “View Full HDR”, slide the toggle off. Your camera photos should look better.

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I love the pics I get from my 13 Pro

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