iPhone camera lens glare and green dot when filming sunset

Asiadra wrote:

Why iphone still have lens glare while filming sunset.

samsung was able to sort it out why Iphone still has this annoying green dot while filming.

Nah, Samsung hasn't sorted out lens flare. Lens flare is often unavoidable and it doesn't matter what cell phone company or for that matter how expensive a camera is. My Nikon DSLR, with lenses which themselves cost more than my iPhone 17 Pro Max 512GB capture lens flare.

But you can help yourself avoid les flare when you take photographs. First of all, when you took the photo, your screen showed exactly what the camera captured and the lens flare was plainly obvious. Had you angled your phone's camera differently, you could reduce or even completely eliminated the flare.

While not a photo of a sunset, here are two photos. The first clearly shows flares above the lights on my dock. The second, was after I repositioned my phone, noticing the flares until I eliminated them. I didn't change where I was standing. I simply angled the phone differently.

With lens flare:

Angling the phone relative to the flares eliminated them:

Apple uses a different design for their lenses. My son has a Samsung S25 Galaxy (traitor 🤣🤣🤣) and it exhibits similar optical phenomena.

The issue at hand is an optical defect known as flare that all lenses display at varying degrees. I have lenses from Canon that display flare and when I shot with Nikon and Leica they had it too. Here’s a basic article that explains it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_flare

If you’re using third party lens protectors and/or filters, they can exacerbate the issue.

I just Googled, “Samsung S24 Galaxy Ultra lens flare.” Look what it returned.

“The Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra may exhibit notable lens flare, often appearing as green or white spots/lines when shooting directly into bright, light sources, which is a common characteristic of high-powered smartphone lenses. Users report this is most common at night or in direct sunlight, though it can usually be mitigated by cleaning the lenses, adjusting angles, or using AI editing tools.”

It also contained links to 4 long Reddit posts about how bad it is and why doesn’t Samsung fix it.

Asiadra wrote:

I have also Samsung galaxy s24 ultra and never had that problem using this phone camera. So it is possible to make it work. It is horribly annoying with iphone.

That's remarkable actually. I went out to the Samsung forums and there are many posts from people complaining their S24 photos had lens flare. Lens flare is normal and often unavoidable, whether you want to believe that or not.

Asiadra wrote:

I have also Samsung galaxy s24 ultra and never had that problem using this phone camera. So it is possible to make it work. It is horribly annoying with iphone.

You really don't need to answer each person.

Please post Photos from the Samsung 24 and whatever iphone you are talking about of the same spot of the same scene at the same time to illustrate your claim..