If you haven’t tried it, there is a camera app for iPhone called “Moment” and it gives you not only full manual controls on any iPhone (not only on the Pro) but also lets you disable HDR and other processing to give you natural looking photos.

There are times when the default iPhone camera will over brighten a photo and in those cases you can shoot with Moment instead and have a more accurate photo.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6748837351

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