If you print photos from mobile phone

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I recently got photos printed from my iPhone and I could have cried when I saw them. They were grainy and a yellowish tone. I want to have good prints that aren’t grainy that look as close to reality as a phone can take. If you regularly print good photos from your mobile phone, what mobile do you own? I think I need to change my phone.
Thanks!

Were they taken in poor light conditions? Have you accidentally gone to manual settings instead of auto?

I don't use an iPhone, but in reasonable light conditions I'd expect most modern mid to high end phone to produce acceptable photos. But for what it's worth my Google Pixel 3a (old now!) takes perfectly good photos, and I think the Pixel phones are generally considered good for phone photography.

I've got an iPhone 11+ which takes great pics. I use the Freeprints app for ones I want to keep or frame and they've always come out well.

I have an iPhone 12 and like you @TheFormidableMrsC I used FreePrints to print them, but they are all so grainy.
@EilonwyWithRedGoldHair some of them are in low light, but even the ones in good lighting are the same, also motion blur on some and it’s the yellow tone to them. I feel like I must have done something wrong when taking them, but I held my hand still and used flash in low lighting.

@TheFormidableMrsC do you store your photos as HEIF or JPEG because I am wondering if this is what’s making the difference? 🤔

Do you use iCloud storage for your photos? If you do, go to Settings, tap your profile picture, then go to iCloud-Photos and see if Optimize iPhone storage is checked. If it is, it means your high quality photos are kept in iCloud, and only low-res versions on your phone. You will need to go to iCloud & download the high-res version. If you want to have the high res versions on your phone, tick download and keep originals. Depending on how many photos you have, they could take a while to download them all.

I have almost 71gb of photos on my phone; if I only kept the low-res versions, it would save 69.1gb, so there’s quite a difference.

No, I don’t have iCloud so that can’t be causing the problem. I checked settings and it’s off too so they can’t be going somewhere without me knowing.
I’m completely puzzled by it. Disposable cameras would have printed better photos than the photos I have had printed. Is there something else I could have accidentally done to reduce the quality?