iPhone 13 pro lens flare

Yes and they're normal. Before you take the photo, you can easily see the flares on the screen. Alter the angle of the phone relative to the bright lights and you can eliminate the flares.

While these two photos were taken on iPhone 12 Pro Max, you can see what I'm talking about.

This photo show lens flare:

Simply angling the camera differently without moving at all produced this photo:

Sorry but you can't always angle your way out of the lense flares, I tried many times but most of the time it's just not possible unless I point it in a different direction, but then I don't get the shot that I want.

See the big reflection from the sign in his image, if I took a picture of this with my compact camera or my DSLR camera, I wouldnt get this kind of reflection at all, so no it's not normal. It's the way they positioned the lenses, and they also need coating to reduce the flares. They just need to do something about it and fix it.

I knew this was where were headed… again, as every year.

Two with one photo; iPhone 12 Pro Max and Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra Lens Flare:

iPhone 11 Pro Max Lens Flare:

iPhone Xs Lens Flare:

iPhone 8 Plus Lens Flare:

iPhone 7 Plus Lens Flare:

iPhone 6 Lens Flare:

Google Pixel 3 Lens Flare:

Google Pixel 5 Lens Flare:

Samsung Galaxy Note Lens Flare:

Samsung Galaxy S20 Lens Flare:

Just for fun, Canon DSLR:

…and on and on and on.

I showed you lens flare as seen on $50,000 professional digital cinema camera/lens combinations here.

It's happened on every previous iPhone back to at least the iPhone 6; I've personally posted examples of this:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253200214?answerId=255995138022#255995138022

It's normal for this device, it's normal for every premium smartphone camera, digital camera and even professional digital cinema camera and lens combinations as it's optics and Apple can't violate the laws of physics as much as they'd like to.

Since you mentioned $50K, here's a $60K professional digital cinema camera with a $10K+ lens attached:

I give a couple more examples here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253200214?answerId=256173218022#256173218022

Now I see flares like every time I take a photo and have to make adjustments. With or without a protective cover on the lenses, makes no difference.

This is something all photographers have always needed to do, all the time when composing shots or video, digital just makes it more obvious because more photos are taken.

Yes they do.

A brief Internet search will reveal ample examples; I've compiled several here:

iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community

Here's Samsung's take on it.

For fun:

Canon DSLR with a Canon 50mm f1.8 II lens:

Panasonic Digital Video Camera:

Samsung Galaxy S20:

$50,000 ARRI Alexa Mini cinema digital camera with $10,000 Cooke Lens:

It’s not normal .

You many not have noticed them, but they were likely there.

I've shown you proof it's normal and they've always been there.

iPad Pros have a different camera system with poorer quality lenses and a different sensor.

If you really think there's something wrong, contact Apple Support directly:

Contact - Official Apple Support

You may not have seen it, but it was happening.

If you don't want to believe what I say here, you can see for yourself here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253200214?answerId=255995138022#255995138022

If it wasn't on previous iPhones, where did the examples there from the iPhone 6, 7 Plus, 8 Plus, Xs, 11 and 12 Pro Max come from (as well as the examples from the Google Pixel 3 and 5, Galaxy Note, Galaxy S20, Galaxy S21 and Canon DSLR?)

Apple isn't going to acknowledge something that is normal and expected, sorry.

If you buy a phone with a bad camera that uses plastic lenses you won't see it, as it's more obvious the better your optics get.

Since the iPhone 7 the rear lenses on iPhones have been sapphire crystals like those used on high end watches.

Apple unveils iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max — more pro than ever before - Apple

Lenses with coatings have been less than successful in reducing flare and always reduce light transmission, not a good thing when Night Mode is a feature of the device.

It is completely normal and as I stated has been present on every iPhone back to at least the 6:

iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community

Still, if you feel your phone is not performing properly, contacting Apple is the proper action to take:

Contact - Official Apple Support

I would advise playing with it in store - at least the point source flare is readily inducible by aiming at a typical store fixture if it has a point source - and make sure it's not an issue for you.

Though at this time of year, you also have the extended holiday return period for your device if purchased directly from Apple, which at this point may give you an extra week to decide; a similar policy may be in place for items purchased from an Apple retail store:

Items purchased at the Apple Online Store that are received between November 1, 2021 and December 25, 2021, may be returned through January 8, 2022. Please note that all other terms and conditions provided in the Apple Online Store Sales and Refunds Policy are still applicable with respect to such items purchased. All purchases made after December 25, 2021 are subject to the Standard Return Policy.

Full return policies are noted here:

Returns & Refunds - Shopping Help - Apple

Deerpark243 wrote:

Oh, that's normal they will tell you.

That’s because it IS normal, for any camera ever made, whether it’s an iPhone camera or a $25,000 professional camera→iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community

This is a user-to-user forum; no one posting here works for Apple.

And it is true. If you can’t accept that, and that it will happen with every camera ever made, you will lead an unhappy life as a photographer. Repeating→iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community

Don’t you ever read a reply before spouting off? Here is examples others have done. Repeating AGAIN→iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community. Please review the entire link before replying again.

Did you view the user tip with a dozen “other” smartphone images, all showing lens flare? Here it is again, just for your convenience.

iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community

and what smartphone did you have in 1982? HINT: There we’re no cell phones, not of any kind, in 1982.