Apple has confirmed a major problem affecting many iPhone 14 Professional customers, and is at the moment engaged on a repair.
The iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max have a critical digital camera drawback, however Apple is engaged on a … [+]
Shortly after launch, iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max customers began reporting a dramatic camera-related drawback when utilizing widespread apps akin to TikTok, Instagram, Fb and Snapchat. When utilizing an affected app, trying to open the rear digital camera ends in an uncontrollable ‘shaking’ of the digital camera’s lens, accompanied by a worrying ‘rattling noise’.
The bug seems to be the results of an incompatibility with the telephone’s new 48-megapixel digital camera inflicting a fault with the optical picture stabilization (OIS) system of the first lens. The OIS system is designed to counteract undesirable digital camera shake via exact actions of the lens however, sadly, seems to be doing precisely the alternative when this bug is in impact.
A Tweet from content material creator Luke Miani exhibits the bug in impact with the rattling lens clearly audible.
Talking with Bloomberg, Apple has confirmed the problem and promised a treatment can be made out there ‘early subsequent week’. Fortunately, this factors to a fixable software program concern reasonably than a deeper drawback with the {hardware}, so house owners aren’t anticipated to should return their iPhones for restore. Nevertheless, as he reveals in a YouTube video, Miani’s telephone ultimately could not focus anymore and was changed within the Apple retailer.
In case you’re at the moment affected by this drawback, I might strongly advise towards triggering it intentionally because it’s not but identified whether or not extended rattling of the lens would possibly result in everlasting {hardware} harm, as was possible the case with Miani’s telephone. In case you’re unable to get an instantaneous trade in an Apple Retailer, simply maintain tight and look ahead to an replace, both from Apple instantly or within the particular person social media apps you utilize.
As a short lived workaround, you may take photographs with Apple’s built-in digital camera app, which isn’t affected by the bug, and share pictures to social media from there,
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