Yellow/blue streaks pictures

Has anyone had this issue when taking pictures you get these yellow and blue streaks on some of your pictures? If so how was this fixed?


I recently got an iPhone XR from AT&T (2 months ago) and started noticing the issue after I take a picture. Before you take a picture everything looks great until you take the picture is when I noticed all these lines on most of my pictures.


I spoke with Apple tech support on 10/4 and they advised that I take my phone in to an Apple store for a tech to take a look at. 10/5 I walk in to my appointment to have my iPhone XR checked out and they recommended to replace the camera and so they did to fix the issue. At the store I didn’t notice any issues until later that night when I want to go have dinner at a restaurant and when I got home. I called Apple tech support again for yet another appointment. 10/11 I walk in to my appointment they recommend that it’s possibly a hardware issue so they would replace my iPhone XR at no charge to me. So I thought great that’s no problem. All weekend I didn’t have a chance to play with the camera until yesterday when I noticed the lines again!!


My IPhone 6S Plus doesn’t have these issues at all so I know my iPhone XR should not take pictures like this. It’s getting annoying have this happen very often.


How can I fix this or what can I do at this point ?


I am simply taking pictures for the native camera app with no filters applied, I don’t use any other 3rd party camera apps, I don’t have a case that covers the camera at all, the lens is clean and not smudged, never dropped the iPhone on the camera or anything.


iPhone XR

Posted on Oct 15, 2019 4:00 PM

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Posted on Oct 28, 2019 7:15 PM

I thought for a long time what the problem was, I tried different settings. My friend and I have the same problem on XR. The reason was in HDR mode. First you need to disable Smart HDR in the settings, and then in the camera itself, turn off the HDR button on top, then the bands disappear. This appeared after iOS 13. I think they will fix it later.

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Oct 28, 2019 9:23 AM in response to Chrizztopher

I am having the same issue and went two time to the Apple Store. They changed the camera and the issue still there and then, changed the cellphone and the issue continue. Now, they are pointing that the issue is with my backup (that I am using icloud and their app to do) and they are asking to reset the phone and install app by app.

I asked to them to escalated this issue and try to solve with the engineer team, because I will not install app by app.

The Apple Support becoming worse daily and only throwing the issue back to the customer, that it's really bad.

And I have asked the second thing to them as well, avoid me to pay the 3 months (for the upgrade program) that I still have with this phone and try to change my cellphone to another one. They are evaluating this as well, for looooooong time.

Oct 31, 2019 3:51 AM in response to Hey_Soup

I spent over two hours on the phone with Apple support running diagnostics and and troubleshooting. They even had me update my laptop to Catalina, and install the new version of iTunes. Not sure what this had to do with my camera issue, but I followed their advice. When we were done, they recommended I take it to the Apple store to have them look at it. At he appointment, we went over everything that was already done, and they decided to replace the camera and restore the phone to original settings. I have not taken many photos since, but they said if it continues, go back and they would evaluate further.

Dec 4, 2019 1:45 AM in response to Chrizztopher

Hi, I got an XR in start of October as a work phone, I have had the issue with the yellow stribes since I got the phone. tried the HDR think that didn't work, reinstalled my phon, that didn't work. I have a colleague with has the same faulty with the yellow stribes, so it maybe from the same production of XR's that has the Camera faulty? Now the retailer I brought the XR from will swapp it to a new XR, so I really hope the new XR hasn't the same faulty.

Nov 18, 2019 9:13 AM in response to macspartan793

If you read through the other posts you'll see that nothing has fixed it. Work arounds don't work, phone replacement, camera replacement, restoring, resetting, nothing has fixed it permanently for those of us posting here. I suppose it could be hardware, but I think most of us are banking on it being a software issue. I don't really care what it is as long as it gets identified by Apple and fixed.

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