Soon after Apple’s new iPhone 14 Pro started touchdown in clients’ arms on Friday, reviews began surfacing of a troubling challenge with the handset’s digital camera.

When utilizing the cellphone’s digital camera inside apps similar to TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat, some house owners noticed the digital camera mechanism beginning to vibrate quickly and in addition make a bizarre buzzing sound, inflicting an unstable and blurry picture to look on the show.

You can see it taking place within the video under:

So uh, we’re having some points with the 14 Pro Max digital camera pic.twitter.com/7HH1wLFjdF

— Luke Miani (@LukeMiani) September 16, 2022

The alarming drawback shortly gained loads of consideration on social media, with the state of affairs ultimately coming to the eye of Apple, too, prompting it to reply.

In a broadly reported assertion, the tech big mentioned on Monday: “We are aware of the issue and a fix will be released next week.”

Apple’s response will come as a aid to these experiencing the weird conduct on their expensive new iPhone 14 Pro handset, particularly because it means it’s a software program challenge quite than a probably tricker-to-resolve {hardware} drawback.

The consensus seems to be that till Apple resolves the problem, anybody who has an affected iPhone 14 Pro or Pro Max ought to keep away from opening the digital camera in third-party apps as there’s a threat that the vibrations may trigger everlasting harm to the cellphone’s sensor-shift picture stabilization system. The vibrations don’t look like taking place when utilizing the iPhone’s native digital camera, so you possibly can nonetheless take images and movies earlier than posting them in your favourite social media apps.

It’s common for issues to floor with the launch of latest telephones and different tech units, and, as on this case (hopefully!), they’ll normally be mounted by way of a software program replace.

Still, Apple isn’t resistant to tech flubs of the extra severe selection. The launch of the iPhone 4 in 2010, for instance, resulted within the so-called “antennagate” debacle that noticed the cellphone lose sign in the event you held it in a sure manner. The firm supplied iPhone 4 house owners a $15 payout or a free bumper case that obtained across the design drawback and ensured the sign didn’t drop. More just lately, Apple suffered a dent to its repute after a number of customers reported failures of the butterfly-mechanism keyboard on some MacBooks purchased between 2015 and 2019. In a court docket settlement, Apple agreed to make funds to affected clients.

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