My friends weren't taking RAWs from their iPhones, so that part didn't really make any difference. (I actually don't think I've encountered anyone who does that

My friends weren't taking RAWs from their iPhones, so that part didn't really make any difference. (I actually don't think I've encountered anyone who does that!) I don't have an iPhone, but when I've tried RAWs on some other smartphones, they weren't nearly as good as from DSLRs. In fact I sometimes found it hard to even get the quality of their own JPEGs from the RAWs. (Lenses can of course add another factor, but everything I mentioned is with stock lenses.)