iPhone 14 Pro camera issue in ultra-wide and macro modes

Nothing is broken here 🙂 — this is a classic ultra-wide (0.5×) lens artifact on the iPhone 14 Pro.

You have not mentioned the issue you are perceiving. What I observe is:

The pink curved arc on the right

That’s a lens flare/ internal reflection.

Ultra-wide lenses have:

• a very wide field of view
• more glass elements
• stronger interaction with bright light sources

If there’s a bright light just outside the frame (lamp, tube light, window, LED, even the phone’s own flash bouncing), the light reflects inside the lens and shows up as:

• pink or purple arcs
• circles or crescents
• curved streaks near the edges

Totally normal. Very annoying. Very optical.

The shiny, uneven texture on the wall

Also normal. The 0.5× lens exaggerates:

• surface texture
• paint bumps
• reflections

Your wall probably looks smooth to your eyes, but the ultra-wide lens is basically saying:

“I see everything.”

I also see dark, uneven shadows at the bottom.

• When you’re close to a surface (like a wall), anything near the phone can intrude:
  • your hand
  • the phone’s bottom edge
  • a cable, case lip, or even your body
• The lens “sees” so wide that it happily includes that shadow

At 1×, this wouldn’t show up at all.

At 0.5×, the lens is basically saying: “If it exists, I will photograph it.”

If the black patch:

• moves or disappears when taking a photo in 0.5x in a different angle → confirmed shadow
• stays fixed in the same spot always → then do investigate hardware.