iPhone 12 camera flicker on video recording

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Created Nov ’20

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Hi!

I recently bought the new iPhone 12 Pro Max.

I have noticed that when I shoot video's in the dark (with the lights on in the house), there is some kind of flickering visible in the video.

Apparently it is possible that due to very fast flickering of lights, slowmo video's make this kind of flickering visible when you can not see it with the naked eye.

I however have this problem with normal video's as well. I have compared it with the video's on my iPhone X and it is definitely worse in my iPhone 12 video's.

I noticed that this happens while recording video on HD (or 4K) at 60 FPS, if you switch to 30 FPS this doesn't happen.

Anyone else that has this problem?

Problem happening on iOS 14.2.1 and iOS 14.3 Beta 2.

Thanks!

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Trixybalz OP

Sep ’21

Hi, I have an iphone 12 pro max and I just had updated its ios to 15 and a few days that’s when I have experienced the flickering of the videos sent to me. It’s really annoying and irritating on the eyes. How can this be fixed?

nikkroden OP

Sep ’21

PrinceJohn30 same issue here and I am from Bataan, Philippines. I am sending iPhone 12 Pro Max to the Power Mac Center in Clark Pampanga on Monday for service and repair. This happened after updating to iOs 15. Green tint, flikering screen and video playback issue!!!! It’s just unacceptable for a new and very expensive phone to have this kind of issue without even doing anything to it and didn’t even have a physical or liquid damage. And who would want to let a very expensive phone to get damaged or submerged in water, right?

Madi13 OP

Oct ’21

Same!! Got a replacement phone it does the same thing!! Can’t even enjoy or use my pro for what it’s meant for!! The camera!! They’ve done nothing but send replacements or try to repair it all of which is clearly not the problem here.

Amitastic OP

Nov ’21

I bought apple 12 mini 2 days ago in India and facing same flickering issue especially when recording slow- motion videos and 4k videos at 60 fps. Have asked seller to replace the iphone but they are denying it.

Gmzsyn OP

Nov ’21

When I move the camera when recording a video, it is flickering always. When I zoom when I watch the recorded video, quality is awful. It is same for IOS 14 and 15. I tried all video quality options. It is dissapointing.

rahulsharma OP

Dec ’21

Even I am facing the same issue with my iPhone 12. 30fps is fine but 60 fps videos suck in low light

Vishaaakha OP

Apr ’22

I have an iphone 13 pro, barely 6 months old and this happens to me all the time. Took it to an apple service centre and they found nothing wrong apparently. Horrible service on apple’s end

Taurus1981 OP

Jul ’22

I had the same issue, I simply went to settings, Language, changed the device language to a new Language (in my case- Turkish) as I know Turkish. And the phone rebooted, and immediately the issue was resolved. I am not longer seeing any flickering issue. Earlier, I had to fiddle a lot around the camera settings like, toggle lens correction, etc. all is of no use.

only solution : change Language of a different region and restart the phone.

It appears that Apple has designed the iOS to country, region, Language specific, and hence camera software works accordingly.

In your case, you could either try Irish English, or Australian, English or some other Language of a different region in Settings and restart the phone. Should work.

Fadermarker OP

Oct ’22

I have same problem iphone 12 mini

ManiMoon OP

Nov ’22

i have the iphone 12 pro same issue.