[whywhywhywhy]

Haven’t felt like the camera on my iPhone 13 is significantly better than the one on my iPhone 7 at all in terms of basic quality. My shots look about the same.

As someone who upgrades every several years I’ve been wondering how people who upgrade every year and rave about the camera being better are even seeing at this point.

(Stills only I’m talking about)

[npteljes]

I'm noticing the same, looking at GSMArena's comparison shots. We opted for an iPhone 11 back then, and out of curiosity, I keep an eye out for camera improvements, and I don't see that too much is happening. Comparing the low-light shots of the 11 and the 14 pro max, there is some extra detail, but the post-processing is also noticeably heavier.

[Terretta]

Telephoto and low light

Also, the camera, lenses, and sensors don't all update every year. Early on in Apple's tick-tock approach to design iteration, camera updates were the "s" models ("tock") in release cycle.

Now they seem to be just incrementing the number and you have to pay attention to what if any changes they make. This time they did 4x pixels and do pixel binning for regular shots and low light.

[substation13]

Have you done a side-by-side comparison? I have noticed huge improvements.

[shinycode]

Exactly, HDR, colors, shadows, night shots all of that makes a huge difference. Take a night shot side by side between the two phones you listed. If there is no difference it’s because you never took those pictures. Maybe a camera it’s just a camera for you. Point shoot done. The difference in various lightning situation are huge but you don’t take that much photos or care enough ?