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iPhone 14 Camera is Blurry

My brand new iPhone 14 Pro Max’s camera is blurry whenever attempting to take close up pictures in 3rd party apps like Amazon, Target, Walmart (ie barcode scans). Phone is brand new out the box, updated to latest iOS (16.0.2), and have reinstalled the apps.


Anyone else with this issue?


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iPhone 14 Pro Max

Posted on Sep 24, 2022 9:03 AM

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Posted on Jan 7, 2023 12:46 PM

All I can say is I've had iPhones for over 10 years and I've never had the issues with the camera, both native and third-party apps and accessing the camera as I've had now with the new iPhone 14 Pro. Look at the picture attached. I made it this morning using the native camera unfortunately due to the focal distance, the iPhone could not figure out which camera to use and kept switching back-and-forth and ended up with a blurry picture. That is an issue with the iOS that did not exist before this version of the iPhone. I am seriously considering going back to an iPhone 13 as the issues did not exist with that phone.

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Jan 17, 2023 9:26 AM in response to stevenbad

It is NOT just 3rd party apps. Did you try Apple‘s own „Code Scanner“. It doesn’t work properly neither. This house of cards of the „user“, who is commenting on everything in this thread is collapsing.

If you don’t know how to find the code scanner, which is implemented in iOS, go to the Control Center, where it is more or less hidden and where you can activate it (may be there are other ways, I just know this one).

Feb 8, 2023 9:39 PM in response to stevenbad

I have an iPhone 14 pro and have had it since mid Dec 2022. The camera has been working great until tonight. I use the camera often. All of the sudden, the photos are all blurry. This is with the IPhone photo app. It is not exclusive to any third party apps. Tried rebooting but same issue. I need the camera to work as it's an important part of our day to day work. Please advise.

Aug 11, 2023 11:56 AM in response to stevenbad

Exactly!! So I can't Zoom in otherwise it is BLURRY!! and the lens is clean...and I am not shaking, photo is laying flat on surface....so I know that there is a problem with the camera. I have a few other issues with my phone and I am not happy about that, the ad kept stating what a great camera on this phone. I disagree. My old iPhone 6 was better.

Aug 17, 2023 1:40 PM in response to nabryan59

It's not a problem with the camera, you're either trying to use digital zoom by zooming in or are too close to whatever you want to take a photo of.


For the normal 1x camera, the minimum focus distance is about 20cm or a little under 8"; software is more than capable of reading codes from that far away, software like Walmart Pay does it without issue as does the Amazon app.

iPhone 14 Camera is Blurry

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