Green Dot On My Photos?

[contacos]

Received my new iPhone Pro 12 Max last week and I Wonder what this Green dot is, that appears on a lot of photos but not always. It basically follows the camera movement

 

[zunivolo]

That looks a lot like it's just a reflection of the desk lamp. Happens in lenses sometimes when you have a strong light source in the image (like the sun).

 

[chanerz]

Lens flare

 

[bizzwriter]

Yeah -- lens flare like they said. Expect that kind of thing when you photograph a bright light like your desk lamp or the sun. I was just looking at a photo I took a few days ago at the beach with my new 12 PRO and noticed I also have the green dot toward the lower left, opposite the sun...

 

[smator]

Received my new iPhone Pro 12 Max last week and I Wonder what this Green dot is, that appears on a lot of photos but not always. It basically follows the camera movement

This is the iPhone's horrible lens flare / ghosting artifact problem.
Queue the hordes of fanboys incoming to tell you it's normal, it's physics, you're not supposed to take photos of light sources, etc... i.e. you're holding it wrong, it's user error.

But no, you're not holding it wrong. I'm a professional photographer and I shoot into bare bulb monolights all the time. No artifacts. Some flare on sunny days is indeed unavoidable, but this is just too extreme to be acceptable.

The flares on my 12 Pro Max are insane. My old Mate 20 Pro was completely fine where the iPhone will have a whole UFO invasion of funky lights floating all over my video.

My best guess is that an anti-reflective coating is missing on one of the lens elements. I have contacted Apple support, and I suggest you do the same, they need to be aware of this issue. Don't let tell them tell you it's normal - Android phones at half the price don't have this issue.