Iphone 11 Pro Extreme lens flare

so why i have never noticed anything like that using iPhone 8 for about year? I was lucky with angles lights etc. and now I am not ? I didn’t know what is flare before I bought the pro because this is first time when I see something like that and i needed to dig what is that. This normal because this is how they designed ? So... flares destroyed the hour of recording but it is ok because this is how they designed it, designed to destroyed the recording so it is ok😂

iPhone 11, 256gb same problem. So annoying!!! Had not have this with other iPhones. 1000€ for this?! So unaccaptable, they have to offer a repair program, so many peole were fooled with a good dark mode!

It's funny that were even having this discussion. All of us have had iPhones before and I don't think I've ever had such a horrible experience with an iPhone as the iPhone Pro Max 11. It takes beautiful pictures if there's no light source in the background. If there's any natural or man-made lake source in the shooting area, the phone fails miserably. I don't care what excuse you make for a lands or a sensor, my iPhone X was 100 times better than this and handling the normal every day shots. The photos that I get now are in acceptable, and it has nothing to do with experience etc. I am not using the little light mode it's still having this issue. maybe a little testing should've been done prior to selecting the components they used. https://youtu.be/HAUb-gKR34A

I think its funny (actually sad) that when it came time to take Christmas Day photos in front of the tree, my new iPhone sat on the table like an ornament. A $600 phone that is incapable of taking a decent photo in front of a lit Christmas tree. Sorry...I’m not jumping through hoops to compose a photo.

Even if Apple could somehow come up with a hardware “fix” for this issue, I’m not really excited about someone cracking my new iPhone open to fix something that should not have been an issue from the beginning.

People just wanna point you and have the pictures. They want to take selfie's and just have them look half way decent. I just took this photo, my lens is clean, I'm just taking pictures of Christmas decorations. I just can't avoid this.

My lens doesn't exhibit that behavior. If I were you I wouldn't of accepted a refurbished phone, rather asked for it to be repaired or refunded. I've sat on the phone for 7 hours before with T-Mobile, it takes time to get things the way you want.

I'm sure if I tried to get lens flare, I could. Again, being somewhat experienced in photography and having a higher end DSLR with expensive lenses, I'm pretty good at knowing how to avoid lens flare in my photos.

The new cameras on the new phones are more complicated than the old less capable cameras of previous iPhones. I think many here would greatly benefit from taking a basic photography class. I've seen some specifically for iPhone, which can be taken online for reasonable cost.

"I have not experienced ANY lens flare issues" If your phone doesn't have this issue that's good. Mine has and I cannot tak any pictures at night. And I'm not that dumb to use UW or shake camera at night. And it just triggers me when ppl that don't have these issues say that "THAT'S NORMAL"

This photo was taken from my tiny balcony. There is nothing I can do to remove this.

It depends on the person, this is definitely not normal. I had my phone replaced with a refurbished phone then they replace the lens, my pictures are worse than most peoples pictures. Are you experiencing anything like this?It depends on the person, this is definitely not normal. I had my phone replaced with a refurbished phone then they replace the lens, my pictures are worse than most peoples pictures. Are you experiencing anything like this Please know my lens is clean.

I wouldn't do anything. I would call Apple town about the problem make a case and just wait for them to find a solution. The most horrible thing is that you have a brand new phone and I'm sure you don't want to trade it for a used one and I'm sure you don't want to crack it open to replace the lenses that don't make a difference.

If you're totally unhappy with it just bring it back to the place a purchase within 14 days and swap it for something else.

Don’t listen to the “I’m a professional photographer. You don’t know how to use your camera. It’s perfectly normal” spiel.

Something tells me that if Apple told their potential customers that they needed a night course in photography to use this camera, no one would’ve bothered with it unless you were a professional and frankly most users are not! It shouldn’t be that hard to take a photo.

Thanks! I had a battery replaced in my iPhone 6s that was part of a free replacement by Apple. Maybe the iPhone 11 will follow suit with a batch of lens that were manufactured incorrectly? I know there is no way that this is normal for an iPhone.

Can you post some pictures after the lens replacement showing the improvement? Because if true then everyone in this thread, myself included, has a defective device which needs to be either replaced or have the lenses replaced. Up until your comment it seemed to be that this was just normal behavior for the iPhone 11s but you are saying it isn’t.

The issue with Apple software updates these days is that they can brick the phone with bugs... My iPhone 11 Pro is on iOS 13.1.1 and I am not keen on updating it after reading iOS evaluation on Forbes where it is said that updates are riddled with bugs and best would have been to remain on iOS12... but these phones were delivered with iOS13...

Now, I am wondering how Apple shoot their advertisement footage at night and with all sorts of lighting conditions without any flare and ghosting whilst the issue is rather extreme.

I think that is an excellent question as it seems we do not have the same device at all as we cannot reproduce such scenes without severe flare and ghosting...