Will iPhone 15 reduce camera lens flare?

Same problem with me ..have u any solution for this problem..Double sun seen when i take a sunrise photo .. will resolve this problem or not…

Had a 12 and just got a 15 ProMax. The flare is terrible! Never had this issue with the 12. It made my sunset look like there were 5 suns or the sand had glowing blotches in it.

Optics and physics can't be changed.

The same issue occurs with myriad professional still and video cameras; you'll even see unintentional lens flare in many television and movie productions, this is a $60,000 professional video camera with a $10,000 lens:

As always with cinematography/photography, you have to work around the issue.

I have iPhone 15 pro. the problem of reflections persists and is very annoying because they are amplified reflections, intense projections of light points at a different angle, not on the straight line of the source, not even if you photograph perpendicularly. The reflection of cameras is very different, more natural and more beautiful, sometimes pleasant. with this 15pro it seems like seeing the world from inside a spaceship, with strange lenses that generate so many reflections as if they were burnt pixels! sometimes the reflections look like the constellation Milky Way. even for videos there are exaggerated reflections placed between the lens and the framed subject. I'm thinking of changing my smartphone again, unfortunately.

I myself own an MFT camera. I can say that my lenses have hardly any lens flares, even when I shoot directly against the sun. Of course, the lenses also cost a lot and are physically built differently, but I also find the artifacts against the sun and in the dark clearly too strong. I have pre-ordered the iPhone 15 pro and hope that it will improve with it. In my opinion, this would be one of the best improvements ever for anyone who likes to take pictures.

Simple dot erase logic in “edit” would suffice. This issue did not happen pre iPhone X. iPhone 8 was great at capturing pics of sunsets and rays of light thru clouds. The BIONIC chip turns the Sun into a white or yellow dot with all the joy sucked out of it

"Odd that this has remained part of the iPhone for such a long time because they certainly could fix it."

Really? So Apple has a way of breaking the laws of physics? Please do explain.

It is a shame when you paid more than a thousand dollars for a mobile phone and you have to deal with these issues.

Went to the apple store and everyone there says it's normal.

There is no way to correct lens flare at this level; even Leica tried on a different brand phone and failed.

Lens flare is an artifact of a lens, there is no way around it. Even DSLR's costing thousands of dollars will have lens flare.

They announced that they are using a new better coating on the lens to reduce the artifact, it will remain to be seen how well it works.

seb29 wrote:

Yes, DSLR lenses have lens flare, however, the lens flare artefacts on the iPhones especially at night are quite extreme and a telltale sign it was shot on an iPhone. #flaregate

Somehow, equating a perceived flaw in a consumer good to the biggest political scandal in the U.S. in the twentieth century seems.... wrong.

There are two factors that cause the enhanced lens flare in the iPhone.

One is the coating they use on the lens. It's hard to see on an iPhone lens as they are so small but look at the lens on your camera. Notice that it has a slightly reddish or greenish tint to it, that is a coating they use to help reduce reflections in the glass and lens flare. Good lenses use two or three coatings on them. The stronger the coating, the less flare they produce.

The other factor that causes the lens flare to be so strong in the iPhone is the enhancement software they use. After the picture is taken, the iPhone applies a lot of processing to make night-time shots look brighter. The problem is, the software doesn't know the difference between regular lighting and the reflections so it brightens up the reflections as well causing the flare to be enhanced.

Apple said they are using a different type of coating on the iPhone 15 lens so hopefully this will help with the flare issue.

Camera’s have had “red eye reduction” for 20 years. It would be trivial for Apple and it moronic/bionic chip to erase that dot via clone-color-dot-removal like “Lensa” and I think Google Photos now have.

if they can do it on the fly, then at least offer green-dot-fix under “edit” menu.

It might be the issue that the iPhone 15 pro max lens is longer by just a little bit. And a longer lens will create more lens flare than a shorter lens. That was on the iphone 12. Am I correct? But Apple should have corrected for this issue. Either in software or design. I see I got a tone of lens flare in one of my videos using the iPhone 14 pro max. And shooting at Monterey car week 2023, while I did not experience Lens flare, I somehow shot most of my videos in 1080P not 4K dolby vision. 4K Dolby vision is SOOOOO much better. The color and contrast in Dolby Vision is just amazing. I am not sure what happened since I just set every setting to HDR and 4K/60 and leave it that way. There is no reason to shoot in anything else. In 1080p the contrast is just so washed out. I find that some of my photos are like that, these have the washed out flat look with no punch like in Dolby Vision. And sometimes I see that the camera is adjusting and I get a dolby vision like look. But it is intermittent. Not consistent. I Hate the Flat lifeless look.