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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Dec 8, 2019 4:51 PM in response to Chrizztopher

Hello everyone,

I have an iPhone 8 Plus and the lines just started showing up a week ago. I'm assuming that it's just a software issue, as the camera was just fine until one of the latest updates. Does anyone know when/if there will be a fix in the next update? I use my camera for business, as the iPhone cameras are great!! I've also tried turning the HDR off in both the camera settings and in the camera itself and nothing changes. Let's hope that Apple has a fix in the next update. We also have an iPad Air and that also now has the yellow/blue lines in the photo, which you can also see on the screen before you even take the picture. To me, it's obviously a software issue because it's affecting even the older model products. Apple, please help us!!


Dec 15, 2019 9:31 AM in response to Chrizztopher

Same here. A lot of my pictures have those yellow/blue lines. It’s so annoying...Apple really need to fix this NOW. I have this problem since I update to iOS 13 BETA and is so weird that they hadn’t fix it after 5 months. 5 months is a lot and the worst is whenever I go to the Apple store and tell them the problem, they say I have to wait for the “next update” IOS 13.3 is out and the problem is not solved. I am really wondering how long do we have to wait...one year or would they even fixed? I am so disappointed with this.

Jan 20, 2020 11:00 AM in response to Chrizztopher

We are having the exact same issue with both our XRs. Been onto phone help, went through the whole, restart, update, reinstall routine. We’ve been to the ‘Genius’ Bar today. One of the phones they won’t even entertain looking at as there’s a scratch on the camera and say that could’ve caused the fault(!) even though we had another phone with the same issue and no scratch. So frustrating that they won’t accept it’s a known error. Has anyone tried requesting a refund successfully?

Oct 23, 2019 6:48 PM in response to Eckymecky

i too expiercend the same i observed this in 13.1.2, did a lot of restoration through a apple tech support team help but nothing worked, hence i thought of taking it to a near by service center, next morning when i was out of my bed i had a update notification for13.1.3, thinking that this update would resolve the camera issue i had to update but i had to know apple again failed for $800 phone which didnt closse to a $100 phone here are my sample shots.

now my device is in the apple service center for this issue i awaiting a reply from them,

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