I know that Android phones let you change camera resolution. How can I accomplish the same on iOS? More on apple.stackexchange.com

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. More on reddit.com

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. More on reddit.com

Everyone needs to experiment and find what works for them. Looks like you did. That is awesome! I don't have one of those new fangled doo dads that shoot 48MP so I can't comment on most of your post. I can say that most compatible is just that, compatible. Where I work we have had so many service tickets created for folks to be able to view HEIC it isn't funny. For that reason I will choose JPG over HEIC. I also typically choose to use a third party camera app to bypass all the Deep Fusion processing voodoo. And that is what is great about photography and art in general, we all have our preferences. None is wrong. None is right. Now let's see a bunch of images from that thing! More on reddit.com