I was really surprised when the most disappointing feature of my 14 Pro was the camera. The overprocessing is horrendous in low light, and the constant switching between lenses is annoying when taking everyday photos.
It's funny because in contrast to the old perception of Android phones being fiddly and iPhones "just working", Google's camera software has been way more point and shoot since the original Pixel. Sure, it's also hyper-processed, but in my experience it provided a more reliably "good" result across a range of situations.
And whereas Pixel software updates just kept delivering better and better photos on the same hardware, I know with this 14 Pro I'm going to be stuck with this out of the box performance until I upgrade in several years.
Apple has bad color balance for quite a few years, it can also manifest like this. People not knowing much about actual photography see it as cool instagrameish tweak, and who generally doesnt like to imitate more successful people they follow (I guess successful happy balanced people who dont need to follow others).
I have physical 10x zoom lens on my samsung. Its a massive advantage in almost any situation barring almost total darkness. I take of pictures where subjects are clearly visible and take most of the frame, compared to everybody else with phone who has tiny figures who go to smears when digitally zoomed. If for nothing else, i am not changing the brand, good pics of my kids are simply too valuable to us.
If Samsung can do it, I am sure Apple can do it even better. No clue why they dont.
I’d really get a lot of use out of 4 or 6x.
I also wish they’d stop editing the pictures so much. It’s decided I should have gray hair even though I don’t in real life. Really strange.
Oh and it destroys sunset photos. I get completely different colors than I see with my eyes for sunsets.