> I love the iPhone camera but photos still seem super processed compared to an actual camera body Anecdotally it seems to have got worse in the past few years

> I love the iPhone camera but photos still seem super processed compared to an actual camera body Anecdotally it seems to have got worse in the past few years. I don't know much about photography, but it feels like the software is far too aggressive in its desire to capture dynamic range, and generally unwilling to let areas naturally be in shadow. Many of the photos I've taken on the last couple of iPhones look flat and unpleasing, unless it's a bright sunny day. Which, given I live in the UK, is something of a rarity. Maybe the algorithms are tuned for Cupertino. My wife has been using Google Pixels since the original—while it lags behind in video capture, imo, I've always preferred how the still photos out of her phone look.