Oliver Haslam·

iPhone 13 Will Let You Disable Automatic Ultra-Wide Lens Switching For Macro Photography With New Update In Fall

Apple’s new iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max both go on sale this Friday and reviews are already available, including impressions of the new phones’ macro photography mode.

That mode uses the ultrawide camera, but it is enabled automatically when users are in the wide camera mode and get close to a subject. That’s going to change, according to a new report.

Right now anyone using the Camera app on their iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max will see the image shift from the wide to ultrawide lenses automatically, despite the app still showing that the 1x wide camera is being used. As Input’s Raymond Wong notes, that isn’t a great experience.

The viewfinder keeps jittering as it tries to choose between a regular wide or wide-macro shot. A regular person wouldn’t look at this and think to themselves, this is normal. They’d look at the jittering and think something is broken with their iPhone camera. The framing should never change from what you compose and never automatically.

Now, it’s clear that is going to change. Wong was told by Apple that this was expected behavior initially, before later changing tune and saying that a new option will be available later this year — that option will disable this odd behavior entirely.

A new setting will be added in a software update this fall to turn off automatic camera switching when shooting at close distances for macro photography and video.

When that update will be made available isn’t clear, but with iPhones landing on doorsteps in less than 48 hours, it can’t come soon enough.

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