iPhone 15 Pro Can’t Scan lottery tickets yet my iPhone 8 can

The camera takes excellent photos but cannot scan lottery bar codes but at the same time & lighting, my iPhone 8 doesn’t have any issues scanning these


What could be the problem with my iPhone 15 pro?

iPhone 6, iOS 11

Posted on Oct 14, 2023 3:05 AM

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Posted on Oct 15, 2023 9:29 AM

I use the Illinois lottery scanner I went from a Xpromax to 15 pro max I used to turn scanner on move tickets close to fill scanner window then it would scan. I called Apple because it wasn’t working like this they said it was app responsibility to work with new phone (QR was working with phone) . You can use two fingers on camera to zoom in and out so tried this with scanner in lottery app and this worked. Feel kinda stupid for not trying this first but always moved ticket closer before to scan QR . I hope this helps and saves Apple some work answering dumb questions like mine : )

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Feb 14, 2024 11:02 AM in response to MicHell666

I can get it to work, but it works very poorly. None of this is a problem on the android phone among many other things that the iPhone lacks. Not going to get into it but these phones are way overrated. I've given up on Apple. They don't listen to anything that I suggest the android blows away the iPhone I don't know what all the hype is in this country.

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