Bad quality of scanned documents

Hey guys, facing the issue that scanned documents on my iPhone 12 Pro Max with Files app are pretty bad quality. Guess it started with iOS 15 beta 3.

Unfortunately issue still persists with current non beta iOS 15 release. It‘s the same on iPad OS 15.

When I launch ‚scan with iPhone’ using Preview app on macOS quality is good as always. Hence looks like issue is related on files app or PDF processing on iPhone.

Have anybody else seen the same?

Thanx and cheers, Flory

Answered by Wanted797 in 692668022

It appears 15.1 has fixed this issue.

Same here, with iPhone 12 and iOS 15.0.1. On iOS 14* worked flawlessly. Any chance to solve it with the upcoming versions?

iPhone 12 Pro Max 512 Mb Same here. since IOS 15 Upgrade My scanner image quality has decreased significantly. If I use Notes to scan the image is a little better. If I use a third party app like cam scanner then the image or PDF I should say is Top notch. I am not sure but I believe the text reader in the photo or camera is affecting the scanner quality.

Same here. Scans are perfect quality UNTIL you save; then they somehow get downscaled to unbearable quality. It's frustrating.

I am still experiencing the same issue. iOS 15.0.2 iPhone 13 Pro Max

Scanning in Apple Notes works fine, then saving to files saves a good quality but saves receipts as A4 or Letter size documents.

scanning directly to the files app has the same problem as stated previously, good quality on previewing the files and low resolution on saving to Files App

I have the same issue on all ios devices, for that reason, I use the scan from onedrive app until Apple fix the issue, works perfect.

Yep same issue. 12 pro max on 15.0.2

Same here. Noticed bad quality all of a sudden. iOS 15.0 on iPhone 11 Pro Max.

Same issue. This needs to be addressed and hot fixed ASAP.

Yep, got the same issue. With iOS 14 everything was fine. Since iOS 15.0/15.0.1/15.0.2 the scan quality is bad.

Problem solved, just used Notes for scanning the document, then saved to Files and it’s sharp. This is a temporary solution until Apple fix the saving pdf in the Files.

This problem is now fixed in iOS 15.1 Beta 4. Final version will soon come out.

Realised today and can confirm. All document scans on iPhone 13 pro are now blueish. It's like the document detection mask was not removed before converting to pdf. Started with iOS 15.x.

Accepted Answer

It appears 15.1 has fixed this issue.

Same problem on iPhone 8 and iOS 15.0.2. So useful feature, but useless in fact.

has been fixed with iOS 15.1 - Thanks so much for fix and to all users posting in this thread

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