slow motion choppy/dropping frame rate at 240fps

Come on, Apple, you cannot and WILL NOT stay quiet on this forever. I didn’t pay over a thousand dollars for a phone only for it to not be able to do what my much older, much cheaper, much less advanced original iPhone SE could do with no problem. This is total BS.

I’m pretty disappointed that my stupidly expensive iPhone 14 Pro has this issue after moving from the XR which could film 240fps with no issues at all. Even after a restart the 14 Pro only ever manages 239.98 so definitely seems to be something to do with the hardware on iPhone 12 and above that Apple doesn’t want to/hasn’t been able to resolve.

I’m extremely disappointed with this issue as well, as I discovered yesterday filming something that I won’t likely have the opportunity to film again. Neither my original SE or my SE2020 had this issue. They recorded brilliant, smooth, beautiful 240fps slow motion video.

This phone is buggy in many different ways, but this is probably the most frustrating issue I’ve discovered. Not being able to use a key feature of the phone is a major issue when spending $1,600 on a phone!!

I have same problem, went to apple , they couldn’t help, i compared also to other iphones 14pro and max , and all of them have the same problem … my 11 pro max slow motioned so flawlessly . It’s definitely something with hardware. Oh yeah you know what one of Apple employees told me when I complained about it ? He said just wait until new iphone release…

I am very frustrated that this is AGAIN a problem with the IPhone 14 Pro Max. Got a 12 and found it for the first time. Never had a solution, and in the end I sold it. My 11 Pro was so much better in the slow motion video it’s not funny. Apple you need to get your act together this is a major issue.

I have experienced hardware failures across few of my Apple products during the past 15 years, but started to notice more users reporting hardware failures in Apple's products over the past five years.

In addition to my iPhone 14 Pro, I recently purchased a pair of AirPods Pro, where one of the AirPods had a clicky speaker unit from the start and had to be sent for repair to Apple. To my disappointment, Apple didn’t fix the issue when they returned me my AirPods.

It would be nice if Apple, at the very least, acknowledges the slomo-problem with the iPhone 14 Pro and communicates it!

I have exclusively bought iPhones since the iPhone 3G, but maybe it's time for me to start looking for better alternatives.

I upgraded from my iphone XS to a 14 Pro a few months ago and really, the main reason that I upgraded was to replace my XS with a newer better phone to specifically shoot 240fps with inside a water housing. The 14 pro was having constant problems drifitng away from the 240 fps to do pretty much whatever it wanted. They had me redo the entire operating system and a bunch of other things before eventually replacing the phone. The new one's been behaving till yesterday when it too started setting the frame rate at whatever random number that it wants to. I turned the phone off and then back on which seemed to bring it back to 240fps. This is an ongoing issue though. I'm not sure why these newer iphones are having this issue, but it's not good enough Apple. I can absolutely say without any dobt at all, that I would NOT have purchased this phone knowing that there is an issue with the 240fps. Right now, I'm considering getting rid of the 14pro because it's useless to me if this issue can't be fixed.

Again, the slo mo issue that plagues iphones since the 11 pro - in my case, the last phone that fully worked for me - is actually damaging my job. I am a videomaker, and in my videos most times I get to shoot things that are non repeatable. And it is a gamble whether some will be shot properly or not in slo mo. I will have to replace the iphone with a camera, the opposite of what I had decided years ago, because of this - with a huge impact on my workflow. Extremely disappointed. And I cannot believe Apple does not have the capacity to solve this.

Hi YossarianP,

It might be helpful for you to speak with Apple directly about this issue. Click the link below for additional assistance on this matter.

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Kindest regards!

It's 2024, and there's still hasn't been a fix yet.

And I'm on iPhone 15 Pro Max on the latest iOS.

This is ridiculous.

Why the silence Apple? No public acknowledgment of the problem at all. Come on now. You guys are Apple. You're better than this... At least talk to your customers about the issue, instead of distracting them by making them reload their operating system. I wasted two days, doing that for nothing...

I have this problem too. From the date of purchase my new 14 Pro Max more than a year has passed, I'm waiting for solve this issue! I bought an iPhone precisely because of the smooth Slo Mo! How's that??? When You solve this PROBLEM???

Upgraded from a XSMax to a 14Pro Max and used the slomo a few mins ago only to realized there was THIS issue. I googled “choppy slow motion iPhone 14 Pro Max” and arrrived here. So add me to the list of people waiting for an answer (or solution).

Very disappointed about this issue! Have the best iPhone ever with the worst slowmo performance. Why? What’s the reasonable reason? Lots of storage (1tb) tried disabling all the possible reasons for slowmo dropping to 170fps…only a restart will temporarily fix the problem. Considering a jumping back to “the other side” after 15 years…