S25 rear camera focus/sharpness issue?

[galaxian6]

I had an s22 and rear camera was amazing. With s25 I am going through the below issues. Any comments? 

1. Focus is an issue off the bat even for static objects. Mostly noticed with indoor shots. Also guess the composition has changed for sure with this phone, I see more of warm shots than cool even if set to original mode.

2. I guess due to the focus issue, I see some parts of the pictures blurry or rather lack of sharpness. This can also be seen in social apps while taking pictures. 

I tried disabling the scene optimizer, reset camera, no 3rd party interferences, lens is clean. Front camera works beautifully but the issue is with rear camera. 

[Luis_grb]

Here is another one with the focus problem, the autofocus is almost hit and miss even in daylight, so most of the pics are like back to 10 years ago phone camera and totally useless .

Of course samsung do not answer the feedback through Members App 

[userlM9iKfPCpo]

Well at least now I know it probably wasn't me, seeing all these other folks having the same problem.  The reason I chose the s25 ultra was only for the camera, specifically astrophotography.  Shoot, man...the pics I got of the Northern Lights with my s22 turned out better than what I got last night!  
C'mon Samsung.  Hubby is considering an upgrade to his ancient s10e, and I'm desperately trying to keep him from going "fruitbowl" (Apple) on this Windows home!

[cassatek]

I have the same issues.

The rear camera cannot focus properly objects and the photos are blurry.

I have already updated the software to the latest march patch. Same issue...

That's crazy, when will Samsung release a fix for this major issue??

[Forsaken11]

I'm also having issues with the focus. My Samsung S10+ had much better focus. Background is mostly blurry, when I get close to the subject, one part of the subject can get blurry, like my dog's nose. And I also struggle to manually set the focus because tapping on my desired subject struggles to bring up the yellow square. I sometimes have to tap 5-6 times to bring it up. I am very unhappy with this phone's focus.

[Forsaken11]

I'm also having issues with the focus. My Samsung S10+ had much better focus. Background is mostly blurry, when I get close to the subject, one part of the subject can get blurry, like my dog's nose. And I also struggle to manually set the focus because tapping on my desired subject struggles to bring up the yellow square. I sometimes have to tap 5-6 times to bring it up. I am very unhappy with this phone's focus.

[Forsaken11]

I don't have a solution but I found 2 ways to save some of the photos.

One way is to "remaster" a photo. To make this option appear, go to the photo you want to remaster, tap on the 3 dots on the top right corner and tap on "details". Then on the bottom of the photo, right above the details, you will see some options like "remaster" "live effect" ,"background blur" , tap on remaster. This can fix some photos but it can potentially oversharpen an already sharp subject that was already properly focused.

Another way is to go to Samsung Store and download an app called Galaxy Enhance-X. This has various options like removing blur, sharpening a photo, "magic" option, "increasing resolution", "denoise" etc. You can mess with various options and see if any of them improves a photo.

Again these two fixes don't work on every photo but some photos can be restored.