iPhone 14 Camera is Blurry

Yes, can’t scan QR codes because it’s so blurry. Wtf

I have the same issue with my 14 Pro. close-up photos are always blurry. so much for this amazing camera that Apple is toting all over TV.

My new 14 doesn’t take anything clear up close. Qr scanning is not possible

Same issue too, iOS 16.0.2. iPhone 14 Pro Max, QR codes are very difficult to scan in 3rd party apps. The stock camera seems fine.

I was able to use camera on iOS 16 - before updating to iOS 16.0.2. When I first set up the phone on iOS 16, in third party apps it would switch between the normal and the other camera, depending on the distance to the object that you wanted to take a picture of - just like it does in the literal camera app. After updating to iOS 16.0.2, nothing works. Now here is what I'm 99% convinced is going on:

People on Twitter have reported the camera shaking issues on the iPhone 14 Pro. The stabilizer and autofocus would just freak out whenever you have opened a third party app's camera screen.

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Yes this is happening to me too, have switched recently from an iPhone 11 to an iPhone 14 pro max purely because of the “good” camera, however whenever I open 3rd party apps my camera will not focus without several prompts to do so. Alongside this I appear to be facing the same issue even on the camera application. Really dissatisfied as this was the main reason I bought this phone!

Until the authors of those third party apps correct their apps, this issue is likely to continue.

The fact that it isn't an issue in Apple's apps shows it's not an issue with the phone.

@Dogcow-Moof no you don't understand. The feature was in there for ALL apps in iOS 16.0

Only Apple's 16.0.x updates have disabled the camera switching in third-party apps.

Than the option was there in error.

The bottom line is if something works in all Apple’s apps but fails in third-party apps, the third-party apps were not programmed properly to utilize the new hardware.

For example, Walmart Pay for one works properly on my 14 Pro Max.

This is not at all how it works. Apple has not announced any changes to their camera API's at all. When you make a breaking change to your OS, you inform developers in the change notes. There are zero mentions of any of that, because they thought the automatic switching that they have enabled in iOS 16 will suffice (it did). Then they have removed it, and still no word on this in the change notes.

I appreciate how much you are trying to blame the developers here but Apple is known for handling breaking changes much differently than your "the developers will just be surprised on launch day that their apps break" approach that doesn't make sense at all. They are usually upfront about things like this to avoid launch-day issues. This is how you know that this time it's different and NOT the developers' fault.

This happens regularly with almost every new hardware release not to mention new release of iOS.

What the issue is, I couldn't say, but it also makes sense that if something is making multiple third-party apps misbehave they disable it until more third-party apps can be brought into compliance.

Apple is completely up front about these things, through their Developer Services, but you would be shocked at how many developers do not take advantage of beta access and instead wait until a product is released to update their products for compatibility if they do so at all.

Apple does not make "secret sauce" changes that only their own apps are aware of.

> Apple is completely up front about these things, through their Developer Services

Then link me the part where it informs about the camera API changes. Pro tip: You can't, because there is none and that renders the rest of your comment invalid. You describe how you think it works, but you can check for yourself that it doesn't work like you think it works on that very page that you have linked.

It's not my responsibility to read Apple disclosures on their APIs and upcoming new features to determine what may or may not work on future revisions of hardware and in future versions of iOS.

Further, even if I could link to the information, it may be information requiring that you sign up with a developer account to read.

But as an example, new to iOS 16 is the

maxPhotoDimensions

property, which must be one of the values defined by the

supportedMaxPhotoDimensions

property:

The dimensions you set must match one returned by supportedMaxPhotoDimensions for the current active format. 

Apple Developer Documentation

These settings are new to iOS16 and the previous method of checking whether "high resolution" capture is supported has been deprecated as of iOS16:

isHighResolutionCaptureEnabled

Boolean value that specifies whether to configure the capture pipeline for high resolution still image capture.

Apple Developer Documentation