Iphone 11 Pro Extreme lens flare

This is the hardware problem ... now I’m insist them to change and solve it...as i read from the previous comment. It’s seem like 1st batch iphone defect...suck an low quality camera. Very upset with apple product. It cost not cheap.

I had a replacement, a refurbished phone and then then had the lenses swapped out, I feel it’s The same, the issue remains. Please note that my lens is 100% clean.

I was using HDR and try to focus on Objects to reduce the noise or lens flare

They didn't. Either reviewers were sent peach perfect ones, or they didn't take enough photos to expose this. It seems to me that a lot of this is most present at night, and I do recall reviewers mentioning it, but saying its probably just the small sensor. Smaller reviewer channels who buy their phone off the shelf like the rest of us did mention it heavily and advised people to consider that before purchasing the handset.

I think that we should make photo comparison in the same scenarios. Unfortunately I have only access to Samsung Galaxy S8, I will try take some photos with both phones and I will post it here.

BTW. Reddit is also aware of lens flare issue, many posts on main page

https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone11pro

Thanks for sharing that, it’s interesting. If you go to the very end of that video you will see the sky finally darkening and this is where the iPhone starts having its problems. Most of the video was taken daylight and there wasn’t much contrast between the daylight light and the all of the electric lights. You did see a very bright lights but there was no lens flare.

it’s interesting at the very end, this is where the problem started to show up. I took a screenshot and circled it in red. So watch the video and look at the very end and then you’ll see where The flare starts to begin

DigitalMonkeys wrote:

If you notice in some of the images taken this time a not simply a flare issue. There are reflections duplicated in another part of the image. See the birthday cake image posted above.

What precisely do you think lens flare is? It's reflection of bright lights or a brightly lit area internally within a lens.

I’m trying to figure this out too. I purchased an iPhone 11 Pro Max, I had extreme flare issues and night and day. I fought with Apple and they gave me a refurbished phone and a refurbished phone have the same issue. Then I replaced the lens at the Apple store and still have the same issues. The fight goes on, below is an example of a photo taken after the lens was changed. The lens is perfectly clean.

I had the chance to return the phone in the first 14 days but there is no phones in stock to do the replacement at Best Buy, Best Buy told me to deal with Apple.

I was hoping to swap it out for a new phone but Apple refuse is to replace defective phones with new phones that so I really don’t know.

so I’m stuck with a double refurbished phone that still has issues.

I’ve had mine replaced with a New phone and the problems still persist. This seems to be a design defect rather than a manufacturing error.

heres to hoping be don’t end up with another “You’re holding it wrong” statement from Apple.

In the night is visible. But as well when trying to make pictures of sunsets or just sun.

I had before an iPhone 7 Plus and never had this horrible experience as with the 11 pro max.

something is very wrong in them. And phones (other brands) offering better cameras for a pair of hundred dollar whilst this one is above the thousand irritates me. I love apple products but not the latest addition. 🙁

iphone 11 pro camera is amazing except this stupid flares/ghosting. You can do more or less amazing photos at daylight, but if you want to do sunset/sunrise or take a picture at night(Christmas season) its horrible and almost impossible to edit...

Lenses being close together doesn’t explain it since Samsung phones have even closer lenses and don’t suffer the same problems. This is a lens size comparison of phones right now

The Note 10 is the equivalent to what we have now in iPhones.

There is a problem, every photo and night really sucks, this was just a monitor, Note the picture, the reflection had the details, The phone was not in night mode, no matter where you position the phone, the shot would be horrendous.

Apple replaceed my phone with a refurbished phone then replace the lenses.

Apple said, we’re not gonna do anything else, this is the way the cameras are. I’ve sent 20 different photo circumstances to Apple in the engineering team said there’s no problems with the camera.

I only get those long streaks if i am trying to shoot through a car window. This night driving scene has headlights head on but no streaks. Just green dots on the hood of my car and right in road right in front of it.

The lenses were clean, the second picture was after I had the lens replaced. I check my cameras every time before I use them. Maybe there's something wrong with the CMOS, I don't now, this is just normal for the song. Day is fine but it's hyper sensitive to light. I've talk to Apple support, they said this is the way it is, there's nothing wrong totally deny in the situation. I've asked for a refund, I've asked for a replacement with a new phone but they denied me of that so I have to live with this. I think you're lucky to have and IPhone that works perfectly. Even the support at Best Buy and the store said these are in unacceptable.

I think it's funny that we're all trying to find out what's wrong with our phones. I was thinking it was The lack of anti reflective material in the lens. I've heard that it's a reflection of the sensor, but I think it's not up to us. It's up to Apple is the brand to fix it and correct it. This is a $1200 phone, they advertise the cameras being perfect but they're not. This is my iPhone 11 Pro Max photos, this is not normal. They also said it was the software, but they updated it. https://youtu.be/HAUb-gKR34A