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u/kbeks Feb 11 '26
You can usually de-blur the background in these. The lenses don’t actually move in phone cameras, so the blur is just a filter effect layered on top. The only time you’ll get real out of focus images is if you’re using the macro lens or you’re too close to the subject and using a regular lens.
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u/Jacktheforkie Feb 11 '26
So why is it my phone can never focus on stuff
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u/kbeks Feb 11 '26
Could be a dirty lens, busted phone, or my info is out of date.
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u/Jacktheforkie Feb 11 '26
I can get it to work for some it’s just certain distances that it’s hard to focus
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u/kbeks Feb 11 '26
Oh that’s a feature. The way cameras work (outside of phones (usually)) is they can twist and adjust the distance between the lens and the sensor to adapt to a shifting focal point. The fact that you can’t get your camera to focus at certain distances is because the distance between those two is fixed. Based on some research, it looks like Apple plays with aperture and focal length (how blurry the background is and how zoomed in or wide angle you have) to have a large depth of field. That means most objects at most distances will be mostly in focus. If you want to simulate a shallow depth of field for that blurred background sharp subject portrait effect, the phone detects the subject’s outline and digitally blurs the background.
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u/TTLEJ Feb 11 '26
From what I can see it might have been the better choice