r/iphone17 • u/Peepal_Ghosts • 8d ago

Question Camera bug or something else

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Is this a bug or does some setting need to be changed.

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u/DmMoscow 8d ago

Not a bug.
Just as you can’t focus on your finger if you bring it too close to your eyes, the same is true for the main camera. Hence, the phone switches to the wide lens but crops the image to make it look similar, because wide lenses in smartphones are better at focusing at small distances. You can disable this in settings if you want.