Why on earth is Camera automatically zooming my videos?

[ithacasnowman]

I'm using iPhone 13 Pro Max. When recording my golf swing (tried both slow-mo and normal video), the camera *automatically* "zooms in" after I've swung the ball. Sometimes it keeps zooming in after each swing. Sometimes it zooms out after a swing. As if it's trying to add some kind of sports effect. When I end the video, I notice that the focal length has changed. Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm using the regular iphone Camera app. AFAIK I didn't fiddle with any settings.

I am SO damn mad that Apple decided to do this by default and there is just no obvious way to turn the darn effect off.

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

You can check to see if macro control is toggled on. This would allow you to turn it off cause it may think certain parts of what you’re doing are coming close enough to the camera for it to trigger.

The camera itself doesn’t zoom automatically though unless you have it in cinematic mode or the macro feature is triggered.

 

[ithacasnowman]

You can check to see if macro control is toggled on. This would allow you to turn it off cause it may think certain parts of what you’re doing are coming close enough to the camera for it to trigger.

The camera itself doesn’t zoom automatically though unless you have it in cinematic mode or the macro feature is triggered.

Thank you, I’ll give that a shot.
Looks like it is turned off.

 

[Italiancanadian]

Did you find a fix for this. Having same problem with recording my golf swing.

 

[ithacasnowman]

Did you find a fix for this. Having same problem with recording my golf swing.

I found that it’s related to my Apple watch. When I remove it, it doesn’t auto zoom. 🤷‍♂️