Green dots when taking pictures on iPhone 6+

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Green dots when taking pictures on iPhone 6+

Here is the picture where the problem is most obvious:

http://i.imgur.com/OybP7Nt.jpg

As you can see, there are 5 green dots in the picture. I understand that when taking direct pictures of a sundown etc., that there might be some lens flare in the picture, but these dots are caused by the lights of a CHRISTMAS TREE! (How many people are going be taking pictures of their Christmas tree in the coming few weeks..?) Also, no matter how I positioned my camera, the dots still continued to show in other pictures as well, forcing me to delete them.

What are my options here? Buy Photoshop and edit the dots out and accept that a 899€ phone has a bunch of camera issues, or is it possible that apple could at some point fix these lens flare issues in an update?

Posted on Dec 11, 2014 6:49 AM

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Ingo2711

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Dec 11, 2014 7:46 AM in response to Chiqibi

You'll have to accept that a camera of any phone has it's limitations, especially in low light conditions. In the end it's a phone and not a DSLR camera 😉

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Niko2015

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Dec 11, 2014 8:39 AM in response to Chiqibi

iPhone 6 plus camera issue

Follow this discussion post.

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Chiqibi Author

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Dec 12, 2014 2:21 AM in response to Ingo2711

I have a Pentax DSLR myself and never had any issues like this and I have taken a bunch of pictures of my tree without issues.

This is my first iPhone and my last phone was a Galaxy Samsung. NEVER have I had to deal with lens flare issues or green dots with that phone, and it was years old. So explain me that.

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Dec 12, 2014 2:33 AM in response to Chiqibi

The problem is not with the phone, Can you capture some more photos and check.. i too have the iPhone 6 and it captures very well.

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Ingo2711

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Dec 12, 2014 5:28 AM in response to Chiqibi

A friend of mine just sent me a photo taken facing the sun, and there is a green dot visible as well. But it has been taken with a 5s, so this seems not to be limited to the iPhone 6.

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tlvail

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Feb 13, 2015 1:53 PM in response to Ingo2711

I just upgraded from an iphone 4 to a 6+. I never had a problem with the green dot showing up on the iphone 4 pictures but every shot I take of the sunset (which I do frequently because I love sunset pictures over the water) has a green dot in it. Can this be fixed? Is there something I can do differently in settings to make it go away? Very disappointing!

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Apr 23, 2015 5:20 AM in response to Chiqibi

I've got the same problem as yours in my iPad Air 2 but mine are small black dots. It is more visible when pictures are taken in light background and also where there is bright light. When I took selfie pictures my face got several moles on it because of the black dots. Very disappointing really..

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