iphone 5 camera spots

my iPhone is out of warranty. and didn't notice the dust under the camera lens until the other day. don't remember any dust under the lens previously. so, don't think can claim this started when the iphone was under warranty.

anyways, recently, a couple months ago, had the iPhone worked on at a local repair shop to replace the power button and the battery. the techs would have used compressed air to clean out the inside of the iphone. so, the iphone was very clean on the inside. well, a month after this, got into the habit of putting my iphone in my pants pocket. previously never did that. but sure enough, what happens is that dust somehow gets in under the lens. it was very annoying to see a bunch of dust under the lens when first noticed this the other day.

didn't want to go to a repair place again to just clean this out. it was my mess and therefore wanted to clean it myself. so, decided to do this myself. there is a youtube video on how to do this. search for: How to Get Rid of Dust inside iPhone 5 Camera Lens. Easy, but the only difficult part was opening up the iphone. fortunately had all the tools already, but had to buy a can of compressed air (for $7 at home depot) to blow out the dust specs. you would think that dust would not get into the camera lens. but it apparently does happen if you put your iphone in your pockets. if you are not too scared to open up your iphone, and out of warranty, then you may want to give this a try. get a can of compressed air, and blow the dust out.

Mine is over a year old as well. the one thing I've noted that I haven't seen mentioned is that the spot is present in my photos but as soon as i switch to video, it disappears. Is there a different set of optics for the vid camera?

Hi Marc - I have one of these odd grey blobs too, it just appeared this morning. Did you find a solution? Thanks, Innes

I have the same problem just when I completed 2 good years with my iPhone5. And Genius Bar was not able to help me ; attached is picture showing the black spot on bottom right corner of photo.

It’s very annoying… the black spot appears on every photo and I started hating my phone.

As per Genius Bar – “There is a debris caught between camera-module and end-of-the-glass. There is no way for Apple to open up that outer glass… it may cause some other damage”.

I am very disappointed that they even didn’t want to open the phone to have a closer look. They simply don't have any solution to the problem.

Looks like going to Genius bar with phone which is out-of-warranty is of no use.

Now, I am on my own to fix this problem now. Does anyone has any better working solution? Kindly help. I can't live with this problem.

Regards, Ulhas

I have the same problem with my iPhone 5s and realized the problem is caused by laser beams damage in the camera sensor so i think this do not have solution 😢

making zoom and take photo in the red spot area..

I search all photos taken with my iPhone with the red spot on iPhoto until first one presents the problem and I fond this one:

from here all my photos an videos presents a red spot in same place that laser beam was.

here is more info about this:

http://www.laserpointersafety.com/styled-6/ilda.html

Regards

take a protective 360 cover and then throw your iphone facing earth..my iphone is now ok:)