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iPhone 14 Pro Camera Shaking and Vibrating in Apps Like Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram for Some Users

seek3r said:
I’m not defending Apple, I’m saying bugs happen, and have happened plenty, with people in the office. WFH is not contributing to bugs. This is a bad bug but it has nothing to do with software devs working from home
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I believe it is. These are 4 major bugs, MAJOR. One is bad enough but to not catch 4 of them? That’s unbelievable and it’s the product of a bad workforce.
 
RvXtm said:
Had mine for 30 seconds, i thought it was the haptic engine doing some effect when scanning the id card. In fact it was the main camera. What a sad day for a 1500€ device.
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Omg dude lmao. I knew about the issue because I reas an article in the morning so as soon as I felt it I closed the app immediately. But how on earth did you have it opened for half a minute?

I mean, the camera was all shaking and out of focus in the app.
 
2200€ phone and they don't test the apps before releasing the update.

Then if you say that engineers are paid in peanuts everyone, hypocritically, they are scandalized.
 
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iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max owners should avoid opening the camera in apps like Snapchat
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AFAIK Snapchat starts by displaying your camera, so opening it is unavoidable. Better uninstall it until the problem is fixed :)
 
senttoschool said:
Work from home quality. This is probably the first iPhone to be developed mostly during Covid.

Now we know why Cook is adamant about workers returning to the office. "Working" from the beach is over. Tim Cook has all the data on the lack of productivity and employee disengagement. Macrumors forum posters that claim they know how to run Apple better are not smarter than Tim Cook.

I'm skipping the iPhone 14 and probably also the iPhone 15. I'll buy the iPhone 16 because it'll be the first iPhone designed and produced with workers in the office.
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Just a typical Apple quality scandal, nothing to do with home office.
Jealous at home office?

#Antennagate
#Batterygate
#Bendgate
#Chipgate
#Flexgate
#Locationgate
#Staingate
#TouchDisease

#Jigglegate (as F23 wrote fits well)
 
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senttoschool said:
Work from home quality. This is probably the first iPhone to be developed mostly during Covid.

Now we know why Cook is adamant about workers returning to the office. "Working" from the beach is over. Tim Cook has all the data on the lack of productivity and employee disengagement. Macrumors forum posters that claim they know how to run Apple better are not smarter than Tim Cook.

I'm skipping the iPhone 14 and probably also the iPhone 15. I'll buy the iPhone 16 because it'll be the first iPhone designed and produced with workers in the office.
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The only thing „we know now“ is that you like to make conclusions without any reason.
 
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iPhoneFan5349 said:
I believe it is. These are 4 major bugs, MAJOR. One is bad enough but to not catch 4 of them? That’s unbelievable and it’s the product of a bad workforce.
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@seek3r Will never admit it. Yet, all the evidence is there for him.

1. Cook wants all employees back in office.
2. Google CEO says productivity must improve and demands workers return to office.
3. Even Zuckerberg says productivity has been lacking. He seems to be regretting his work from anywhere policy already.

“I think during a lot of the COVID period, I kind of bias[ed] towards more flexibility and convenience for people,” he said. But now, he’d noticed people making personal appointments in the middle of the day, making it hard for even the CEO to get everyone to attend a meeting.

“Given the intensity of the environment that we’re in right now,” he continued, “I think now the right way to bias is more towards ‘let’s try to make the decision today, not wait until next week.’” From now on, employees were told to be available for meetings midday California time.
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But nope. A random Macrumors forum poster without any data thinks he knows better.

Go figure.
 
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iPhoneFan5349 said:
Omg dude lmao. I knew about the issue because I reas an article in the morning so as soon as I felt it I closed the app immediately. But how on earth did you have it opened for half a minute?

I mean, the camera was all shaking and out of focus in the app.
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I got it friday morning, no news was out yet.
Opened my banking app, clicked on allow camera use to activate it, while I was looking for the id card in my wallet.
I felt the vibration, but blamed it on the haptic engine effects, like the AirTag vibration you get. untill i heard the buzzing
 
teh_hunterer said:
Nah, it shouldn't be possible in the first place to develop an app that physically breaks the camera. Something is wrong at the hardware, software, API, firmware, or driver level causing this. Third party app devs are not to blame here.

Since it's social media apps that seem to be doing it, they're probably all using a certain API call that is triggering the camera to spaz out - an API that is developed and provided by Apple.

The real questions are:

1. Can this be fixed by an iOS update? And if not, oh boy do we have a big replacement program on our hands.

2. Are they going to replace each phone that exhibits this issue? It seems from early reports that once the camera has jiggled around, it has likely suffered permanent damage.

3. How widespread the issue is.

4. What caused it?
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I usually love replacement programs when it comes to AirPods, etc because you got new units but a replacement program that would make me trade in my pristine iPhone for a lesser quality refurb would actually make me very disappointed and angry.
 
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JM said:
That’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

#cancelsocialmedia
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Hahaha this was almost verbatim what I was about to reply. All software by Zuckerbug Inc will cause the lenses to rattle. Next up: screen going dark if you are browsing Tiktok, with the speakers emitting a high pitch shrieking sound. 😂
 
senttoschool said:
I have been both a product manager (software) and a tech lead software engineer. Now I do data science/ML. 10 years of working in Silicon Valley. First started out in FANG. Now I prefer to do startups.

WFH is worse for the vast majority of companies. The only people who say otherwise are either dishonest about their productivity, lazy, or just ticket crunching junior devs.

PS. Apple agrees with me. Are you questioning Tim Cook's decision to recall workers back to the office?
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WFH is a scam when it comes to manufacturing.
andysw9 said:
Same for me. Was it the Chase app? They have had real problems validating IDs because the camera won't focus properly. Chase UK Status
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Have a read “ Then please make sure the ID is far enough away from the camera to be in focus before taking the picture.” BULL POOP PHONE CAMERA. I hate this nonsense. Looks like the crap focus is NORMAL.
MathersMahmood said:
I think this is more due to software than hardware as the issue is not present across the board.
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It is failure in the handshake between hardware and software. Something apple prides itself on. The horrendous focus distance is pure hardware.
bLackjackj said:
Actually I hate to burst your anti-vax bubble, but Apple staff can work from the beach 3 days a week :). If it weren't for staff working from home during this pandemic, you would have no iPhone 14,..so be grateful.
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Their days are also put in such a fashion that they can’t stay 3 days together at home. It is built to be disruptive so that they have to be alternate days in office. Makes it so they can’t live somewhere else for 3 days a week or do anything else really. It is smart & capitalistic. Normal.
iPhoneFan5349 said:
Omg, this just happened to
Me. Should I return my phone? I don’t want to because I would need to send it via mail and I would be without a phone for a very long time :(
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If it has rattled for you, go for an exchange/return. If it hasn’t rattled then don’t open third party apps and if you trust their software no reason to return.
I can’t exchange the phone in my poopy residence, so have no choice.
 
Htsi said:
It is better than the 12Pro launch. Raised black display, which never went away and i had 3 phone replacements, and 2 screen replacements in the two years i owned it. Never fixed.

Point number 2 is what concerns me. They will happily exchange your phone in the states Or in first world countries. I am **** out of luck on that. I do believe that my camera is also damaged to some extent. I will know that only if everyone has the same poor close level focussing abilities.
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If a replacement program is out an AASP will replace it for you no matter what. The issue isn't in doing it though, it is in how long it takes because Apple almost never lets them keep spare units for servicing/replacement. Also if you get a bad refurb or a new unit. I keep my phone in pristine condition despite having Apple Care+. I do not want to take in my phone and be forced to leave with one with any cosmetic damage whatsoever.
 
Personally, if this happened to my brand new >£1000 phone I'd return/exchange it as fast as I can. It doesn't matter if damage is visible right now or not. Even if the camera seems fine now, it could be very worn out and could stop working prematurely i.e. a day after your one year warranty expires.

What a mess.
 
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M.Rizk said:
I usually love replacement programs when it comes to AirPods, etc because you got new units but a replacement program that would make me trade in my pristine iPhone for a lesser quality refurb would actually make me very disappointed and angry.
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M.Rizk said:
If a replacement program is out an AASP will replace it for you no matter what. The issue isn't in doing it though, it is in how long it takes because Apple almost never lets them keep spare units for servicing/replacement. Also if you get a bad refurb or a new unit. I keep my phone in pristine condition despite having Apple Care+. I do not want to take in my phone and be forced to leave with one with any cosmetic damage whatsoever.
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I am aware and agree with your viewpoint. Even i have put on a screen protector this time and don’t want a crappy refurb device for no fault of mine. Especially when my phone is 2 days old! In the states, i would not have to wait for any replacement program, and walk in to get a replacement device. That is the level of service that is absent in the 3rd world. My 2018 iPad Pro has no trouble with autofocus. It has no LIDAR no PRO cameras, one could say It just works.
TheSynchronizer said:
Personally, if this happened to my brand new >£1000 phone I'd return/exchange it as fast as I can. It doesn't matter if damage is visible right now or not. Even if the camera seems fine now, it could be very worn out and could stop working prematurely i.e. a day after your one year warranty expires.

What a mess.
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Agree with you on all counts. It’s a mess.

Having a bank release a statement on the mess with close up focussing, and ZERO reviewers pointing this out…. Man what *****. Paid off %$#^&**!
 
TheSynchronizer said:
Personally, if this happened to my brand new >£1000 phone I'd return/exchange it as fast as I can. It doesn't matter if damage is visible right now or not. Even if the camera seems fine now, it could be very worn out and could stop working prematurely i.e. a day after your one year warranty expires.

What a mess.
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Well said!
 
iPhoneFan5349 said:
Please don’t buy it. This just happened to me, I think this is widespread. I actually checked the phone at first, I don’t even remember if I did when it was 16.0 or until I updated it to 16.0.1

Now I opened Snapchat just a couple minutes ago and the phone starting shaking. The camera started making this horrible sound and started shaking so bad so I closed the app. This doesn’t seem to happen with the camera app though.

I surely hope this is a software issue, I can’t believe Apple has let this slide.
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It actually destroys the camera when it does that. I would take it to Apple to either replace or refund out of an abundance of caution.
 
Maz39 said:
It actually destroys the camera when it does that. I would take it to Apple to either replace or refund out of an abundance of caution.
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And if it doesn't, it might wear it off in a way that breaks just when the warranty runs out, and of course it will be up to you to pay for repair, not Apples fault. 🤪
 
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