Iphone Xr Camera Settings

[catcuddler]

I hope this question make sense I will try to be as clear as possible.I recently bought a new(new to me but second hand)iPhone XR and so far I love it.The only problem is when I come to take pictures it seems to save them as tiny little,cropped,narrow pictures instead of full screen ones.I usually manage to get the pictures to save in a larger format,but there appears to be no rhyme or reason to when it saves small cropped photos,or larger,full screen ones.My question is,when I get the phone to save my pictures in the correct size,is there a way I can lock in these settings,so that everytime I take a picture the size will be the size I want it to to be,and not cropped?
TIA all

[Buenchico]

A bit of a guess here but are you sure that you're in 'Photo' mode, rather than 'Portrait'?

[catcuddler]

Buenchico,I have tried in both modes and still get the same result.It seems after a few pictures,it goes back to the thin cropped pictures whether its in photo or portrait mode

[Tuvok]

Hold the phone landscape

[catcuddler]

Tuvok.Unfortunately thats when it ALWAYS saves the pictures as the small cropped images

[Maydup]

When you’re using the camera look at the top of the screen - is there a small arrow?

If so click on it. A few options come up along the bottom of the screen, one of them should say 4:3. Does yours say 1:1 ? If so that touch it and select 4:3.