XR Camera after iOS 13.1.2 Update

After the update my camera has been taking the worst photos. Striping appears at the tops of the pictures now despite it not being there when the camera is viewed on the screen.

iPhone XR

Posted on Oct 1, 2019 10:25 AM

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Dec 6, 2019 4:54 PM in response to lindzweb

Brought my 3 month old XR to the Apple store for the same issue. They replaced the camera only for me to find out that did absolutely nothing. When I brought it back they said there was nothing else they could do and that I’d just have to “wait” until they come up with a SW fix for the issue.


Really Apple? This is what you are charging $600 for? A phone with a camera that is pretty much unusable at this point. My photos come out with these yellow and black lines in nearly all lighting conditions. What a disappointment.


Nov 14, 2019 8:55 AM in response to lindzweb

My phone has also experienced the same issue since late September following iOS 13 updates. Apple support and the Apple store we’re not helpful at all and now my XR is out of warranty. They denied the issue existed, and when I was able to reproduce the issue was told I had to wipe my phone entirely and not download any backups because the issue would be attached to my iCloud data. I am seriously considering returning to Android products based on their lack of taking responsibility.

Oct 5, 2019 9:02 PM in response to traveller-

Yes! I am having this issue as well and Apple is being very unhelpful. It only happens on the rear camera, I was on iOS 13.1.1 and it was an issue so I updated to 13.1.2 and it’s still occurring. I have been playing around with it a lot and I feel like it’s something to do with bright vs dark areas of the frame see what I mean in the series of photos I just took where it does and does not occur.


all dark no Lines appear


small amount of light at the top less viable lines


more bright more lines


A lot of light no lines ????



Oct 9, 2019 8:29 AM in response to Sunfishiver25

Hi. I also got my camera replaced yesterday. I also noticed that the blue/yellow stripes doesn’t happen anymore. However, I noticed that there’s still a weird stripe issue. Instead of blue/yellow, the stripes on my new camera are much thinner and my photos look like they’re a woven fabric. Just like the blue/yellow stripes, this thin stripe issue with my replacement camera also only occurs in low light. But this time I think it also happens with HDR off. In this photo, it was shot in horizontal and I just cropped it to the top left corner where it’s most visible.

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