iPhone 12 Mini Autofocus issue on native camera app

budyniator wrote:

What I've tried so far:

Reinstalling the update iOS 16.6

There is no feature to re-install an iOS unless you have jailbroken your device. If you have done it then you have messed up the device security.

budyniator wrote:

• Updating to iOS 17 Beta

This is not the right forum to discuss beta.

budyniator wrote:

Hi - since the update of iOS 16 I started noticing that my native camera app started to deteriorate drastically.

You may try some of these steps, please check after each step...

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