Well of course their moon pictures are faked, the moon is fake

Im familiar with post processing.

To be clear, the assumption is that the algorithms the phone is using to determine you were trying to take a photo of the moon are "smart" enough to identify it as a photo of a night sky focused on the moon, rather than a light bulb. I'm not sure how you'd set up a light of the correct brightness at infinite focal length to test this though.

ETA: I've never seen this post processing happen so starkly with anything other than a photo of the moon, so it sticks out pretty hard. And I take a lot of photos at work of things that are tough to capture clearly.

There are literally tests of Samsung phones replacing a blurred jpeg of the moon (the data is lost, there is no way to recreate it) with detailed images of the moon after it is "identified" as the moon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/

It isn't post processing, it is image generation and merging it with the source image.

I had to dig through my phone to find these photos when i got home from work, but they were taken literally seconds apart with my phone on full optical + digital zoom. The detail on the second is absolutely absurd, while the first is what I typically see on my screen when I've tried to replicate since.