iPhone 6 black front camera dislocated

I have the same issue. I had to get a replacement for my original phone (iPhone 6 4.7 black 64gb) since the first one had some huge hardware problems. The new phone has the shifted front camera. It has shifted more since I got the phone and now appears to be encroaching on the actual lens. It looks like there is a thin spacer between the camera and the front glass and that is what is shifting - not the camera itself.

Knowing something about optics, you are not necessarily going to notice a portion of your pictures being cropped by this effect. Your pictures may instead have degraded quality since less light is less able to enter the camera. Once it really moves over the actual lens, you may start to notice that a portion of the picture or the entire picture seems slightly darkened, but it would have to move a lot. I am not excited about going through the process of returning this phone a second time for this problem. This seems like something Apple had to have known about before launch.

Same here on a 128Gb black iPhone 6. Grey crescent visible, about 1mm at its thickest. Had phone just over a week. Wondering about genius bar appointment.

My iPhone 6 is having the same issue. So annoyed!

Same problem here, it was 1mm out of line. I had it replaced with a new one and after a month, same problem again.

Hey guys,

Just a quick update - This same issue on my iPhone 6 finally got to the point where whatever piece of material that was covering the front lens was so noticeable and getting so bad that I finally scheduled a Genius Appointment to have it looked at. I was left with two options: 1) They would normally replace the entire front screen of my iPhone with a machine that they had in the back, which happened to be out of order at the time of my Genius appointment, so, I could wait until that was working again within the next few days/weeks or I could 2) Get the iPhone immediately replaced. I didn't really have much of a choice with the machine being broken so I authorized a replacement for my iPhone 6. The replacement iPhone 6 did come out of a "white box," which many people on this forum think means that the replacement "white box" iPhone is a refurbished iPhone, but I specifically asked the Genius if I would be getting a brand new phone or a refurbished phone as a replacement. He said this white box iPhone 6 is brand new, and he started to say something along the lines of how Apple always replaces broken iPhones with new iPhones that are covered under Apple Care or the one-year manufacturer warranty, and that "white box" iPhone replacements are separated during the manufacturing process to be used specifically for replacement purpose (hence the different box?). My guess is that the reason for this is so that a replacement phone is always available for users who have already bought the iPhone (which is the way it should be, after all).

I'll let you know if this new iPhone exhibits the same issue. God willing, it won't!

I have this problem too. Thanks for posting this!

happened to my grey 64gb iPhone 6 also. i used a really bright torch and mini microscope to see the extent of the problem. the camera itself hasn't shifted but the film around it 😟

in this image i drew circles (red for camera and proper position, green for position of misaligned film). i believe the film must just slip abound in there, the camera itself is aligned but the film is NOT 😟. this is VERY ANNOYING and I'm going to wait a couple of months for apple to fix the phones and then get mine replaced.

I have this same issue too. It wasn't on my first phone. The one i have now is a replacement from Apple for the screen creaking. Now I just noticed this shift like everyone else is saying. We'll see how far this goes. It is annoying though. When it goes far enough, I will take it in.

BGR had the following to say...

The camera shifts slightly to the left, showing a grey crescent shape on the right side of it. Apple does not know what it causing the problem, but the company does replace affected iPhones on the spot, a Reddit user said.

“Apple Store employee here, we don’t know why they shift and if you choose we can replace the display which will replace the front facing camera or just swap the device all together,” Reddit user spykeman1528 wrote. “I usually just offer the full unit swap since customers feel the entire device is defective at that point. I only recommend display repairs if a customers data is not backed up and that poses less of a risk for data loss than obvious full data loss of a whole unit swap if the customer is not backs up.”

HI all,

Today I brought in for service my second brand new iPhone showing the same problem at the front camera again.

The guy at the Genius Bar told me that the first big batch of iPhone 6 were affected by the problem and he also told me that it's better this time to change only the screen instead of getting a brand new phone as they still may be affected (not the new spare screens I assume..). I was happy to keep my phone with a new screen. Will keep posting what happens..

Simo,

Apple Store Regents St. London, UK

Hi, I also having this problem on my front camera, where should i go to repair it? I buy it online, so i dunno where to go repair.

I have the same problem.

Take it to Apple to have it looked at as has been suggested several times in this thread. There is nothing that can be done online....

GB

no, I've seen on a forum a iPhone 6 in white also had the problem , i don't think the colour of the phone will change it. i might take my phone in to check [as i have the same problem as you] but if they are just going to do what they did to you back to me i might not end up going. my home button is also quite loose and ill also complain about that... NOT HAPPY APPLE