Using an iPhone 16, I frequently get time when my camera just will not focus. I don’t mean that the picture is a little bit out of focus. I mean that it looks like my desktop when I tell it to blur the background, and there is no subject for it to focus on.
Completely, totally, unusably blurry.
This not only makes it hard to take photos, it makes it impossible to use apps like a barcode scanner.
There is nothing inherently wrong with the camera that I can tell. The lens is fine. And rebooting it solves the problem. But having to reboot once a day or so, and not discovering that I have to do it until I am somewhere where I need the camera, gets pretty annoying pretty quick.
I see posts online where people talk about the camera being a little out of focus, but this is not that.
I thought it was just me! I’ve got the 16 plus and frequently focusing is an issue. It is the most disappointing camera on a phone I’ve had in 10 years.
I’ve gotten this a few times with the 16 Pro; I think I’ve restarted the camera app to fix it. Since yours is daily, it’s probably a different issue than mine.
I think the “touch the power button and it turns right on” experience with modern devices has gotten us to the point where we don’t think about the expected time for a full-blown reboot.
That, and the fact that the screen is completely blank through most of the shutdown process. Even when Windows 95 was taking forever to shut down, it had a screen up that told us what it was doing.
