iPhone 13 Pro camera not focusing on subject but on background

Same here! I upgraded my iPhone 12 Pro to get better pictures and specially for the 3x feature and I am unable to use it without getting a blurred photo…Ugg!! So annoying! I am thinking on returning the phone and keep my iPhone 12pro, even if the photos are less crispier than the 13pro…help!

Me too!! It’s really annoying, while im trying to take the picture it’s just like switching lens and frames so many times takes forever to take a picture. The main reason why I wanted this phone was for the camera but I’m really disappointed in the camera quality right now and how difficult it is to take a picture I’ve never had this issue.

I'm having this problem too. Sometimes I open my camera and nothing is in focus. Tap to focus doesn't seem to bring anything back into focus. So I have to point my phone to something else so it can focus on that and then move it back and it does this weird pop-back-into-focus thing, but even sometimes that method doesn't work! Quite disappointing for a flagship phone. Very disappointing for my first iPhone too.

I called Apple in this problem, they told me to take it to the Apple support which I did. I showed screen records of what was going on and they didn’t know what was going on. It’s really annoying to take pics and videos and hardly any turn out good.

Same here. Having a major issue with the auto focus situation with the camera. The photo and video quality significantly decreases when it switches lens. I also showed the workers at the Genius Bar in apple and they just told me to reset the phone. They have never seen this issue or even know about it. It’s completely frustrating when spending so much money on a phone and it turns out to be a piece of crap.

This is exactly what happens to me and I thought I was the only one 😭 I’m so happy to see I’m not crazy because when I tried to show other people they just thought I don’t know how to take a picture!! I have a jewlery business and I spend over two hours on one picture because of this phone and it’s horrible cameras and setting! It upsets me so much and I miss my old phone for that reason. Did the update come out at all? Did anyone find a solution?

I am having the same problem with my camera, won’t focus on subject and problems with low lighting (mainly video) very disappointing as the I phone 13 pro is meant to be one of the best cameras on a phone, and my i phone XR recorded better video atm. I hope they will sort it, as it seems to have got worse per update. Other than that the phone runs very very well, although apart from speed and smoothness I do struggle to notice a difference to my old phone.

Something is definitely not working as it should on the iPhone 13 Pro. I too have huge issues with focusing, if I tap focus it tries to focus, you see the focus going in and out and then fails. I am unable to find a single portion of the picture where it actually finds focus, and definitely not where I tried to manually force it to. Focus lock doesn’t work either.

Dear Apple! Just updated to 15.2 and the problem still exists! In some cases there is a very light step forward in focusing - VERY LIGHT but in some situations its even worse becouse the new „turn off macro” button is total disaster! I don’t know how can you push to people such not tested feature! Button shows and disapers, then shows and disapears - its like flickering even when I hold my phone in place! Why it cannot be all the time on screen? Why does it have to show and hide? Why does the touch focus still has such huge problems even with macro off? Once it shows everything very blury, and one second after it cafches the focus and lost it a second later? WHAT IS GOING ON APPLE? Should I send You a comparation between my 13 PRO MAX and my Wifes 12 PRO MAX? Why cant You check it by yourself? I bought my iPhone mainly becouse of the camera! The photos from 12 PRO MAX where the best I have seen! No focus problems! But the screen was worse! Now I have situation where screen in 13 PRO MAX is one of the best I have seen! But the camera is worse than camera from 12 PRO MAX becouse of the focusing problems! Please DO SOMETHING WITH THIS becouse it is very frustrating and as I see here a lot of people have very simillar problems!

I have the same issue. I try taking pics on a mirror and I thought is was something related with using the lidar sensor. I had an 11Pro and I never experienced this before. The telephoto camera just seems to focus on everything but the thing you want.

This phone is honestly a huge disappointment. All that hype about the camera and lenses and the macro and I thought wow, the photos I will be able be able to take of animals with this phone, but no. It focus’s on the background, rarely the subject. If the subject moves it’s worse, the camera doesn’t know what to focus on and shifts it’s focus back and forth and often just goes entirely blurry.

The slight upgrade to that macro option with that flower in the corner of the screen I think has helped with close ups but it still prefers to focus on background stuff and if it wasn’t so horrendously expensive I could throw the thing against the wall most times when all I want you to is take a nice photo.

I have fish and when I video them, the focus is an issue too! It will focus on the fish…….if it stays still - I can opt to zoom in close with the x3 option but as soon as the fish starts to move and I move the camera with the fish, it often loses ALL focus and the ENTIRE screen goes blurry forcing me to have to zoom back out to try and get it to focus on something again, hopefully the fish, there goes my lovely video and I’ve lost my shot of the fish catching its food.

For the amount this phone cost? No. Give me my iPhone 8 Plus any day. Very VERY disappointed. 

And to market and advertise this phone using the camera as one of its main selling points? What a let down.

Right now, after years of being an avid Apple supporter, I’m currently not - I’m not recommending this phone to anyone who’s interested in buying it for the camera, and I’m thinking android is probably my best option if I want a good camera. My husbands new Google pixel phone takes comparatively impressive photos of animals and fast moving fish.

Looking at other posts here it appears I’m clearly not the only one.