iPhone 5 Camera Horrible Purple Lines Down Pictures!

Hi, Occasionally when I am taking pictures or videos with the main camera I get loads of streaks of purple/blueish lines and if I take the photo while these lines appear they actually show up on the photo. So I think it must be a hardware problem. I'm in the UK on o2.

iPhone 5, iOS 6

Posted on Sep 27, 2012 3:52 PM

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Sep 7, 2013 1:18 AM in response to Jai baba

Well jai it solved my problem but one of my friend also had this problem and he encountered after changing the sim card as well. We talked to apple and they suggested that they had many customers with the same issue and have reported to apple main headquarters. They have found it to be a software glitch which occurs when 2G network signala interferes in the software specially in the camera software. They have asked us to be calm and have told that they ll call us on monday to give their final verdict. As its a software issue it would definitely be taken care of in next ios i.e. ios 7 and would make sure that it is solved. I ll suggest you to be calm and trust apple. Recently have you encounterez the problem again??

Sep 10, 2013 11:25 AM in response to Kipto

I had a problem with my camera freezing and having a pink bar covering half the picture. It was driving me crazy, I use my phone for work and this problem was not making life easy. Last week I looked at this discussion to see if anyone had come up with a solution to this problem. It would appear that there is no clear solution. So I tried moving the camera app from the bottom of my screen to the main screen, and low and behold it works perfectly now. Fingers crossed

Sep 10, 2013 9:35 PM in response to P@rth

I am sorry that I did not come across clearly for you. So let me explain myself a little better. I moved my camera app from the bottom of the main screen, close to where the phone app is, to the top of the main screen. So far I have not had any more problems with the pink bar when using my camera.

I know this might not work for everyone, but so far it has worked for me. Since reviving the IPhone, I did move the camera app from the top of the main screen to the most bottom area of the phone. At first it worked fine, a month later a pink bar appeared and the shutter image would freeze. Since I have moved the app back to the top of the main screen, it has not given me any problems.

Hope this time was more helpful.

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