Why does my S24 Ultra modify my photos making them look horrible??

[Valeria1988]

• Hello community, I have a problem with my S24 Ultra camera. Every time I take a photo after a few seconds my phone automatically modifies it (colour, brighteness, contrast, etc.). This feature is supposed to optimize the pictures but it actually makes them look horrible!! It's ridiculous how bad they look, so innatural and weird! I have changed the camera setting to "Minimum optimisation" but it looks like there's no way to disable this option completely, as I can only choose between Maximum, Medium and Minimum optimisation. I'm desperate and I regret I spent all that money for this phone as I bought it mainly for the camera and now I have all these horrible photos😭 Does this happen to you too? Do you have any advice? I just want to see my photo as I took it. If I want to modify it I will do it, I don't want my phone to do it automatically for me.  At the moment I am using the Portait feature to take any photo, as in Portrait mode this "optimisation " doesn't occur. Please help, thank you

[JCarrington]

I'm not sure there's been that much (if anything) added to then camera features by way of updates. Could be wrong though. The app incase talking about is called 'Camera Assistant' and it's found (amongst other added mini apps) in the Good Lock App by Samsung in the Galaxy Store - https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.samsung.android.goodlock