iPhone 15 Pro Max – Vertical Lines on 1x/Zoom Camera but 0.5x Works Perfectly
Hi! I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue with an iPhone 15 Pro Max.
My rear camera suddenly shows very fine vertical lines/banding when using the 1x camera and zoomed-in camera modes. However, when I switch to 0.5x, the image is completely normal with no lines at all.
The issue is consistent regardless of lighting, so it doesn’t appear to be flickering from LED lights.
A few details:
- iPhone 15 Pro Max, 256GB
- No cracks, scratches, or visible damage to any of the camera lenses
- this randomly just started one day I didn’t drop it or anything out of the ordinary happen. I just opened my phone one morning and these lines popped up when I open the Camera app
- Phone has not been opened or previously repaired
- 0.5x camera works perfectly
- Vertical lines appear when using the other rear camera/zoom modes
- The lines appear in the actual photos, not just the camera preview
- Issue happens indoors and outdoors in different lighting
- I have already factory-reset the iPhone
- I updated the phone to the latest available iOS version, but the issue remains
I’ve seen some posts online describing similar symptoms involving a failed rear camera module/sensor, but I’m trying to determine whether this is a known issue with the iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Has anyone had this exact issue where 0.5x works normally but 1x shows vertical lines? If so, what did Apple diagnose as the cause? Did replacing the rear camera module fix it?
