Do iPhone cameras make everyone’s skin look shit?

[Cuch]

My skin looks fine in the mirror even in harsh lighting. I’m starting to get some fine lines and it’s got some variation in skin tone but nothing bad for 42. But even with a face full of well applied foundation, it looks appalling in I try to take a selfie, even on snapchat (minus filter) which somehow is slightly more flattering than using the normal camera app.

Does it do this to everyone? Is the mirror lying? I can’t see how it can be.

AND I have a friend whose skin is far less even toned than mine and her skin looks incredible in selfies. She’s not using an app - I’ve seen her take the pic and it’s immediately like that on her phone with
No tinkering. She has some sort of android phones does it just have an amazingly flattering camera or something?

Watching with interest as this happens to me too! Hate it!

Yes, me too. I love my iphone but hate the camera.

I think Android phones have beauty filters built in as even men seem to have an airbrushed look about them when they take pictures.

I have a 50 year old male friend with an Android phone and some of his selfies look like he’s wearing foundation.

Ah yeah, my ex always looks airbrushes in his very occasional selfies with his son and there’s no way he’d even think to use filters. I wonder if he has the same phone as my friend whose skin always looks fake in her pics.

The new Huawei phones take even more flattering photos than androids. They have 3-4 cameras (depending on the model) and any images are crystal clear and beautiful.

Android phones have a skin perfecting type feature when you take a selfie that you cant turn off (it has a beauty setting, which you can turn down to zero but there is still some skin perfecting feature- sometimes to the point I look waxy). It's annoying. Weird that an iphone would make normal skin look crap though, that's not a great selling point

I have a (new model) android phone and it definitely doesn't have 'built in' filter features. It does have settings you can tinker for a selfie if you want which I assume you can save as standard but IMO they just make you look weird. You can 'smooth' skin which looks like what it is- a filter, or make the eyes larger, which again looks weird tbh. I accidentally toggled the eye thing on trying to take photos at a friends wedding in direct sunlight and ruined the lot - we all look utterly demented . Did give us all a laugh after the fact at least! Regardless I can confirm I still look like shite with no filter on my Samsung S9.

My sisters iPhone has a better front camera than my android (tech wise) and she always says the iPhone makes her look shit because it's a HD camera spec, which is picking up on what's actually there sadly, rather than making it look worse. Makes sense that you'd look better in the mirror if this were true as nobody is seeing in HD in the mirror. I've tried it and I too was suddenly very depressed about fine lines and pores . Everyone seems to agree with you- I wonder why they've done it!

Interesting dontgo. My Samsung s7 only has the weird setting on selfie mode. You cant change it or set it as "normal" or otherwise.