1406. So it’s never a problem meeting P4 when a smartphone is set to Automatic?

With most normal and daytime subjects, photos made with smartphones set to Automatic will meet P4.

But there are some situations — especially involving moving subjects in low light — in which smartphones struggle to reduce or eliminate SMP effects in particular.

It is difficult to avoid these effects (thanks to automated choices made by the smartphone) and it is difficult to remove the effects using only TTG’s Allowable Changes (apart from cropping them out, which is #6 of that Allowables list).

From #862: “Sometimes the photographer will just have to admit that a photo is ineligible to qualify as TTG.”