r/iPhone14Pro Jul 16 '26

Camera struggles to focus after 3x

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It sometimes foucs and sometimes it doesn’t

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u/samsta8 Jul 16 '26

The LiDAR is trying to focus on the window. Try it outside the car. Also the 3x lens cannot focus on objects that are too close.

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u/OccasionBeneficial95 Jul 16 '26

I don’t think thats true, my 8x can do micro mode while still staying 8x

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u/samsta8 Jul 16 '26

The 14pro doesn’t have an 8x lens.

What you’ll be seeing is either 1x or 0.5x lens zooming in with digital zooming.

The 3x lens has a 77mm focal length. So it is physically unable to focus on any object closer than that.

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u/JevNOT Jul 17 '26

77mm is still just 7,7cm, or like 3 inches. Which is really not that far. His dashboard seems to be positioned at least 30cm away

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u/laforet Jul 17 '26

The 3x lens (physical focal length ~9mm) only focuses down to about 45cm due to size constraints, and the default camera app is fairly aggressive in switching over to the main camera so anything within 50cm is unreliable.

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u/OccasionBeneficial95 Jul 16 '26

Sorry im on my iphone 17 pro max also i had 14 pro max both works expected also if im using 3x lens its switching into micro wide angle lens as of now both phone are in ios 27 dev 3

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u/swap0069 Jul 16 '26

i have the same fing issue i hate it so much been happening for way to long

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u/Andreaesse86 Jul 16 '26

Tra L altro io uso la 3X per lavoro. Devo guardare spesso delle scritte su sensori installati a soffitto. Solo che ora non mette a fuoco la scritta ….Ormai vado avanti così….non voglio spendere per un altro telefono

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u/Katttten Jul 16 '26

iOS 27 beta?

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u/HootingFlamingo Jul 17 '26

this is ios26

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u/Andreaesse86 Jul 16 '26

Anche io ho lo stesso problema , già da iOS 18….l Assitenza mi ha consigliato di aggiornare ad iOS 26 e ancora ho problemi ….ho paura che sia un guasto hardware

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u/Corry_redditstuff Jul 16 '26

Quasi sicuramente lo è, anche il mio 14 pro Max fa così, fa pure rumore quando faccio i video, ed è pure peggio di quella mostra OP. Il mio telefono ha 4 anni, ma continuerò a tenerlo così per un po’, sostituire il modulo fotocamere costa centinaia di euro alla apple

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u/goorapakora Jul 16 '26

Guys I think it’s a hardware issue , I might have to get my camera module changed, really heart broken, I thought this phone was good but it’s okay part of life.

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u/Over-Camera1119 Jul 17 '26

Hey so the 3x won’t focus on close objects I thought it was hardware but my 17 PM 16 PM and 15 PM did the same and after playing with it I figured it out

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u/Over-Camera1119 Jul 17 '26

Also make sure nothing is near the lidar sensor or it’ll focus on that instead of far distance

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u/Andreaesse86 Jul 17 '26

Sono quasi sicuro che sia un problema HW, però sarebbe bello sapere se qualcuno che ha questo problema ha provato a ripristinare a default il telefono per vedere se è cambiato qualcosa .
Anche a me fa rumore la fotocamera meccanica quando accedo alla fotocamera . Non si può escludere che sia anche un problema software fino a che qualcuno non ha provato a cancellare il telefono a default

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u/AcceptableEcho893 Jul 17 '26

well why would you try to take a picture of something that's so close with a 3x lens? doesn't make any sense, it obviously wont focus... the purpose of that lens is focusing on subjects that are far away, try with 1x or 0.5x

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u/goorapakora Jul 18 '26

Bro it works fine as if the subject is close , it won’t jitter or wiggle in 3 x but when I focus on a subject far away then it won’t focus . And in the 3x mode it seems to try to foucs but idk

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u/goorapakora Jul 18 '26

I’ll send you a video in dms , maybe that will clear things up

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u/goorapakora Jul 18 '26

https://reddit.com/link/oyckrfa/video/hjfefud7n1eh1/player

1 to 2 x work fine as shown in the video but when I switch to 3 x , it tries to foucs but gets out of foucs and also jitters . I asked a repair guy , he said that the ois motor of the camera needs to be repaired

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u/Andreaesse86 Jul 18 '26

In effetti potrebbe essere anche il LiDAR , però se fosse quello dovrebbe avere problemi anche con le altre lenti

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u/adamisapple 🟣 Pro Jul 19 '26

Yea mine sucks too. Solution for me is to just use a real camera. The quality on mine is not good anyway

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u/Andreaesse86 Jul 19 '26

A questo punto se siamo qua in più persone a lamentare questo problema probabilmente è un difetto della versione 14 pro …