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. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Wando64]

I am aware that this is a very old thread, but I have been having the same problem and rather than starting a new thread I thought I'll try to revive this one first.

This problem had never happened to me previously, but I had it happening to me twice over one single recording session.
The phone was resting on a tripod and untouched for the duration.
After approximately 10/15 minutes of videoing it started to zoom in, in small increments every 30 seconds or so, until it was at maximum zoom.
The comment about the use of the watch is interesting, as this was the first time I used it as my trigger for this video.

Has anybody been able to find out more about this?
There seem to be multiple reports on multiple forums of the same happening, but they get quickly swamped by those that have never experienced it, suggesting that the user must be at fault.

Thanks