Purple spots in my camera lens iPhone5

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Purple spots in my camera lens iPhone5

Lately i have been seeing these purple spots on my camera lens (And no is not the purple haze/glare everyone is complaining about). I think it happened after i dropped my phone while jogging, and yes i screamed and pouted for about 5 minutes after i dropped it =[.

But yea, i believe the problem is inside the lens. After that drop, everytime i try to take a picture or video, i have a couple of purple spots or splatters on my images and video. The screen is perfectly fine. I was looking to see if anyone had any idea what it could be, if anyone has the same problem, or knows a fix for it. I might end up taking it to Apple to see what they say but wanted to see what this great community had to say first

Posted on Nov 26, 2012 1:12 PM

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Nov 26, 2012 2:13 PM in response to Jbueno90

Seems like when you dropped the phone some dirt/dust got inside the lense.

To remove the dirt in the lense I would recommend taking it to Apple because they will need to remove the camera component to have acess to the lense were the dirt is. I zoomed into the picture and it seems like there are just particles in the phone. Doesn't seem like anything was scratched

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Nov 26, 2012 2:20 PM in response to Jbueno90

It sounds like your iPhone needs service.

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Nov 26, 2012 3:19 PM in response to Jbueno90

Yea I figured that could be it. So would they just repair it or replace the phone? Just trying to know if I should back everything up before I head to Apple

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Nov 28, 2012 4:28 AM in response to Jbueno90

They usually would just replace the whole phone so its better to do a backup just to make sure

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