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Android: Change the Camera Picture Quality Setting

If photos taken with the built-in Camera app look blurry, oversized, or eat up storage fast, the Picture quality setting is often the cause. This option controls resolution and compression for every shot, so a wrong setting affects sharpness and file size until you adjust it.

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Change Camera Picture Quality auf Android

The Camera app on Android stores a Picture quality setting that determines the resolution and compression level used for every photo you take. When this setting is too high, images take up more storage and take longer to save. When it is too low, photos can look soft or pixelated, especially after zooming or cropping.

This option lives inside the camera app itself, not in the general Android system settings, because it is tied to the sensor and image processor of your device rather than to the operating system.

To change it, open CameraOpen the menuOpen the settingsTap on Picture qualityChoose an option. The available quality levels depend on your camera app version and hardware, so the exact list can vary between devices.

If photos still look blurry after raising the picture quality, the issue is more likely a dirty lens, low light, or camera shake rather than the quality setting itself. Lowering the quality is useful when storage space is limited or when you share photos often and want smaller file sizes.

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Not necessarily. Higher picture quality increases resolution and reduces compression, but sharpness also depends on focus, lighting, and lens condition.