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by AstixAndBelix 1237 days ago
Computational photography excels at certain uses. Noise reduction can be miraculous as of recently, exposure bracketing and automatic merging allows to take good pictures of a scene with a bright sky without obscuring everything, lens distortion, vignetting and chromatic aberration corrections work really well.

Of course you cannot really compensate for the lens not resolving enough detail, or not focusing close enough; but since the almost totality of photos taken on a phone will be seen on another mobile device these are the less important bits of the equation. Correct exposure and good colors always look good, regardless of how much you zoom the photo. OP's use case is very limited, and unfortunately didn't provide enough context about the nature of the photo.