iPhone 13 pro lens flare

If you bother to look at the photos you’ll see it’s no worse than on a variety of other devices.

iPhone Camera Lens Flare and Reflections - Apple Community

You have it wrong, lens flare is a known issue that occurs on every camera that there is. My point is perhaps your individual phone has a hardware problem with the camera. They could look at it and check. Calling and telling them that you have lens flare is silly. My answer would have been "duh". Take a photography class, learn something. Or like a said buy an older phone or camera with less accurate lenses and you will be much happier.

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So they reported on software built into iOS 15 before iOS 15 was ever released and we're supposed to take this as fact?

This article is pretty much hooey and proves nothing as it's from August, before iOS was officially released, before iPhone 13 series phones were released and not one other real reviewer has suggested this exists in any way shape or form in iOS 15.

Further, the article, which is clearly not based on any fact doesn't suggest the cameras remove lens flare. As we all know, cameras cannot remove lens flare. This is about post photo processing. I have software for post photo processing that I can use to remove lens flare. It's typically available in any really good photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop, and it's called a healing brush.

The newest phones, which are their best cameras to date are garnering loads of complaints about lens flare. Wonder why? Because as cameras get better on cell phones, artifacts become more apparent.

Here's an article about the newest Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro --> https://today.in-24.com/News/507855.html

Only whoever wrote this claims they have "flagrant failure with its camera: it generates ‘lens flare’" demonstrating like most who think this is solvable, their lack of photographic understanding.

From the Google Pixel Forum, is this photo, where the user is complaining that their Pixel 6 shouldn't be doing this:

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I’m not sure this is normal . I own 3 phones 13 pro max , x70 pro+ and pixel 6 pro . There were normal reflections when I captured the same pictures on other two phones . But on my iphone the number of reflections were so high .

i don’t know if it’s just my iphone having this issue . Some say this is reflection flare and some describe this is as reflection . @davidech70 is facing the same issue . Anyway I tried contacting apple care and they asked me to take the phone to their service centre . If it’s normal then they wanna try to sort the normal .

I can post the comparison pictures tomorrow.

No it's not easy to do, maybe in some situations but many times you can't angle your way out of it, I took some the other day of a christmas tree and I got crazy amount of small lense flare dots in the image. No matter how I angled the camera it didnt help. Will post some pics later and with some iphone 8 pics for comparising to show you how many lense flares I get with my 12 pro max compared to the 8 plus where I get none, or maybe 1-2 in some rare cases. Will try to get some pics around xmas from both 8 plus and 12 pro max where I will take photos of the same things with both so you can see the difference.

Yes I did see some flares on a photo I had from my old 8 plus, just didnt noticed them so much cause they were smaller. One thing I noticed on my 12 pro max is that sometimes I do see some medium dot flares on the screen but then when I checked the photo after I took the shot, those flares were not present in the image, so the software must be doing some work here now and then, which has also been reported before that this is something they implemented in the software. Might be similar to some phones where you can remove an object manually after you have taken the photo, only here it does it automatically in the post processing sometimes for these flares, so this was good to see. I know some who said this wouldnt be possible for the iphone to do, but I seen it now myself and it's def. possible for the software to do sometimes. For smaller lense flare dots I didnt see any changes, but sometimes with medium / bigger flares they were removed.

Not true, the dots where there when I took the shot, did not angle it differently somehow, also tried with my phone on a tripod/selfiestick so I know it was stable and not moving when the shot was taken. I did try to chance the angle and they didnt go away so I just took the shot cause there was nothing I could do, and then after when I checked the pic they were gone. This happened a few times but not all the time though. It has also been confirmed by others that this happens sometimes. Not sure why you think the software can't do that? Do you work for apple? Ofc. it can be done and it clearly shows that during my testing and others have confirmed it. If you have a 12 pro max like me or maybe a 13 you can test it out for yourself, make sure you have one of the latest iOS15 updates.

So if you dont work for apple how can you know this? Why dont you test it yourself instead, I already told you my testing proved that in some cases I had 2 flares that came from light sources, they were present on the screen all the time while I pressed the shutter button, checked the photo after and they were gone. And like I said it has been confirmed by others that this is a thing they been working on to minimize some of the unwanted flares. I don't know what more I can say really other that you can test it out for yourself, maybe you will be lucky and see what I saw. But remember this doesnt happen all the time, only a few times with a couple of flares. Small flares was not removed so I think they have to be a certain size maybe for the system to recognize them as unwanted flares. You can also do a google search and find some articles about it. I was thinking maybe I can use iphones inbuild screenrecorder while I take a photo, that way I could show you that what im saying is true, weather you believe it or not :)

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.

Btw. I made a little clip for you guys to show you that the iphone is indeed now able to remove some flares automatically while the photo is being processed and saved. I used the iphone screen recorder to record the screen. Take a look at this short clip, look on the left side of the screen, you see a green lens flare, as you can see this lens flare is there all the way through as the photo is being taken and processed, then look at the end as I click to view the photo, you will see that the green flare is now gone. But as I mentioned before this doesnt happend all the time, but on some shots and with flares that has a size like this, it sometimes removes it. I know some of you kept saying it is impossible for the iphone to bend the laws of physics, but as you can see it is not impossible at all in some situations :)

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In my view it is a design flaw. The reflections are caused by the covering glass of the lens. Maybe some other non-reflecting material would save the problem. I don't think this is "normal" and if the laws of physics cause the design to not work properly, then maybe the design should be changed. Of course post processing can repair much of this, but that is symptom fighting

In your view is it not a design flaw in my Nikon 5000 DSLR with any of my 3 lenses? Or my Light L16? Or any of the cameras in this link? https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250004327

or is it not a flaw in every other camera in the world, but is a flaw in one specific iPhone model?

I’ve so many pictures on my 13 pro max with green circles + reflections . I’ve Vivo x70 pro+ and pixel 6 with me . I don’t see the same issue happening n my other phones . This is some issue with the lens coating . Kindly admit it and don’t come up with the word ‘normal’ as always . I repeat this ain’t any ‘normal’ .

It's also completely normal for any premium smartphone.