iPhone 11 Pro front camera video recording not smooth with Snapchat


Many iPhone 11 Pro users are facing issue with the front facing camera of the iPhone. The issue is while making video with apps like instagaram, Snapchat, Facebook, and trying to zoom the picture is not recording smoothly, the video start to skipping and lagging, quality gets distorted. The video recorded in iPhone 11 is not recorded smoothly during the zoom and it appears to be somewhat step-zooming. The issue is not only with SnapChat but other apps like Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram are having same issue in recording video from front camera.

iPhone 11 Pro front camera quality issue


The issue seems to with iPhone rather than application, doesn’t matter whether using Snapchat or Instagram stories, it skips when zooming in and out. Not only iPhone 11 stucks while recording video from front camera but also have poor quality in low light.  This is annoying for iPhone users as  it is studder/glitchy zoom with front camera on Snapchat & Instagram

Restarting or restoring the iPhone does not seems to help in this.  When contacted the Apple support, they do acknowledge this issue and expect this to fixed in upcoming release.

One users reported as
“I want to cry. I miss my iphone 8 plus, the quality of the front camera is AWFUL. It's not just on snapchat or instagram either, it's also on the camera app itself on my iphone. Unless I have really REALLY good lighting, I'm getting a super blurred android looking camera.”

How to fix iPhone 11 Max Pro zooms in really slowly and in steps on Snapchar, Facebook, Whatsapp, TikTok, Instagram on iOS 13:


Fix 1 : Update the iOS 13


Some iPhone 11 Pro Max users facing this  issue have reported that the problem got solved with latest iOS 13.1.2 update. But not happening for every users of iPhone 11. Some iPhone users are still facing the same problem with the iOS 13.1.


Fix 2 : Turn off HD recording  

Turning off 4K recording (and high fps) the problem is gone. But switching back to 720 pixels and 30 fps is not really a satisfying solution when buying a 1000 dollar

Fix 3: Keep updating apps


With the large increase in resolution of the front camera on this phone (with corresponding large increase in per photo data requiring processing), it is not surprising that many 3rd party apps were  initially not ready to handle it well and possibly they will working and rolling out permanent update for their apps. So keep updating the as well for fixing any app side bug.



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