early iPhones, e.g. up to 11, had very good smartphone photo quality. More recent models pretend to be something more than a smartphone, they attempt to compete with real cameras. This may pass for a part of the target audience, but for somebody who is not foreign to real photography, this is a complete fail, at least in the case of iPhone 13. Over-processed, over-sharpened, fake bokeh looks what it is - fake. Maybe some settings could be tweaked to make it better, but this is not obvious, and anyway tweaking with the default settings is not what iPhone philosophy is about. Plus, short battery life. Considering returning it.

Open the box decided it was way more dinged up than what expected close the box back up never turned it on tried to do a return online would not accept it online after all the back-and-forth with Walmart trying to get it returned just decided the heck with it possibly I could sell it myself online first time turning it on a green line is going through the screen $372 physically disappointing, as opposed to the phone being crappy and no one will return calls so to make it in time for a birthday had to go through a different company to get a phone for someone and so now I’m out this $400 no credit no replace nothing not even a phone call and now while trying to add the photo of what the screen looks like, the app won’t even work to accept the picture this situation has me refusing to by anything from Walmart again. I am telling anyone that listens since Walmart will not. I’d rather pay more some where else or order off Amazon. I’m done. The fact that this review app doesn’t work properly is the irony of it all.

There is no point in buying a locked phone. Learned the hard way. Didn’t mean to purchase this phone but when I reopened the app I did. The phone can only be used on Wi-Fi. ATT locked it and if you do pay off the old owners bill ATT says it’s pointless because Apple will lock it because you aren’t the original owner. ATT suggested I buy a new phone. Can’t even use ATT prepaid. I thought it was just ATT carrier, but no. ATT locked this phone permanently. No phone calls, no texts, nothing. Just Wi-Fi features if ur lucky. Even Walmart said they reprimanded the company and offered a refund however that process was so complex it didn’t happen. JIP!

I was led to believe that my 13 Pro Max would do and be all sorts of wonderful but, actually, it’s not much different than all the rest.

Mine has a touchscreen difficulty, similar, at times, the issues that plagued me with my I-6… often I tap, tap, tap on the screen with little or no response. I have to either turn the phone off and restart it… or, reset network settings to get around it. On other occasions, I move my finger within a 1/4” of the screen and it activates whatever was nearest my finger. There have also been times where drops of perspiration, hitting the screen will change a display… depending upon where the drop of sweat hits the screen.

There is a glitch, when taking photos, where the photo pixilates. Most often it will normalize when retaking the photo but every once in a while, it will continue to pixelate 2-3 times… differently, with each subsequent photo.

I was led to believe that I would be able to take “macro” photos. Apparently, the individual making this claim knows absolutely nothing about photography. Yes, it… on occasion… will take a decent “closeup” (not the same as “macro”) but even that can be difficult and very time consuming because the phone camera cannot decide where the focus should be. My subject of the photo, “bounces” wildly around the screen and I must ready myself to make an extremely quick shot if it “bounces” into a more desired area, compositionally speaking. It’s extremely difficult, also, to get the focus on a smaller object in the foreground, if there is anything large enough, in the background, for the camera to focus on. An example would be, attempting to photograph, say, a flower in the foreground and leaves are behind it… the focus will switch quickly from the flower to the leaves in the background.

There seriously needs to be a way to set the camera to focus on the main subject and leave the background blurry. The “portrait mode” is “supposed” to this but it fails miserably the vast majority of the time and you cannot get very close to the subject in “portrait” settings.