Do iphone cameras get worse over time?

If you recently changed the type of photos that you take, or if the overall lighting has gotten dimmer than when you took the pictures that you like, then that will have an adverse affect on your picture quality with any phone.

Also, you just might not realize that your personal tastes and standards as to what you consider "good" picture quality has changed. The more pictures you take, the better you see which can raise your personal standards on image quality.

If you start using better equipment like a DSLR or even a decent point&shoot, then the images off any phone will suddenly look bad. It's like listening to and liking the sound out of a cheap radio, then switching to an expensive HiFi system. After a while if you switch back to the cheap radio, the sound quality out of it will no longer be acceptable.

I completely agree-- it's getting worse. I'm assuming it's Apple lessening the quality in their updates for users with older phones to push you to upgrade. In the past 10 months, my photos get progressively more blurry. Shortly after the newest iPhone release I noticed it lessened dramatically again... along with battery life.

you would think that they would get worse but my iphone 4 is about 2 years old and within a year of having it my front camera stopped working and it didn't start working again until I cracked the screen on my phone so badly that the glass feel out and there was glass on the front camera. ever since then my cameras both front and back work better than ever!

Riding requires ALL of your attention ALL the time. If you choose to distract yourself like that, you'll be splattered on a highway somewhere sometime... Mark my words... That's just dumb. You're putting your life and everyone else around you's life in danger by doing that. Pull over and talk on the phone and if you don't want to do that, then don't get a bike. I can't wait to see how many bikers rip you a new one for this one... You MUST be a squid.

The problem with smartfone cameras is that the lens cover is unprotected. You slide it around on tables, rub it with your fingers, it jiggles around in your pocket. Result, it gets scratched and the pictures lose sharpness.

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No, they are already worse to begin with. Phones are pretty crap for taking photos. Buy a camera instead. Even a cheap point an shoot will do - and it will cost considerably less than an iPhone.

You wouldn't use a toaster to cook a turkey, would you?

It's a very interesting question, looking forward to going through the responses

No.

They're bad to begin with.

No, I would say maybe you scratched the lens but 5S is sapphire lens, no way you are scratching that.