iPhone 8 Plus horrible lens flare and reflections

Today I recognized the same problem on my iPhone 8 and am very upset that it’s “normal”...

Do all 8 and 8 plus have this effect?

Not true. My iPhone 5s was able to take great pics at night. Upgraded to an iPhone 8 Plus and night pics produces glares, tiny dots etc.

I have the same issue!!!! Most if not all of the video footage I took at last night concert was all blurred out!!!!!

All cameras with lenses have lens flare. It is a reflection of light on the highly polished lenses. It is actually desired in certain photography. The best way to avoid it is to avoid taking photos towards bright lights. It is normal and not broken in any way.

hi bro,i have smaller iphone 8 with same ugly flare,i also have iphone 7 and se,both didnt have this flare,i am very angry now at apple,such a ugly flare on such expansive device,sorry for my bad english,i already ordered 5 inch pixel 2...

I have the same issue on my iphone 8 plus. I was frightened my iphone 8 plus is broken.

So i contact the apple support (still in contact). The answer was to do some tests. Reset the iphone and set it up as a new one.

Because first i don't want to do this effort. I made some tries on other iphones (5s, 6s, 7).

All models have the same issue. So i think we must life with them or hope it's a software issue, they can fix.

To follow some steps, like force restart, reset etc.. but it’s very frustrating, I didn’t notice at the beginning but last night it was obvious in the pictures. They should do something with lens in the future.

I have the same issue and it annoys me a lot. It didn't happen with my old iPhone 5s, nor on my friends iPhone 6 nor 7. Every time I take a picture or a video by night I have some horrible green reflection spots on them. I understand that it might be a ''normal'' phenomenon in lenses but how comes I haven't seen it in any previous iPhone model? The iPhone prices have been rising and I find it unacceptable in a phone for $800. I am going to the Apple Store to see what could be done with it.

Stealthzone wrote:

So if you look at all your pictures they have to do with the same setting, a night scene with lights. This is normal for all high quality lenses..

Yep. My $1500 Nikon DSLR with a more than $1,000 lens shows lens flare with night photos. The expectation that an Apple iPhone with a small lens would be immune to lens flare is unreasonable and unrealistic.

Do you really think your problem is horrible? see this picture, I can not believe it

I’m not the only one then, as of today I contacted Apple about this issue, but now reading all this I guess we have to live with it... this is very sad for such an expensive product.

Your response is nof a valid reason for this you are suggesting Apple is using cheap/low quality optics on the phones from the 6S to present. For the premium we pay a little Lens Coating goes far. High quality optic makers coat their lenses fo reduce this and you typicallu see a different type of flare based on the number of blades used to control thr Aperture. 9 blade lenses create a different flare than a 7 blade lens. Yes, its desirable in ceraian situatuons, but not all. If what you sad held merrit nobody would have come home wirh any decent or usable from the 2017 US Total Solar Eclipse.

Every replacement phone will do the same thing. It is normal for all lensed camera to do that.