When you love snapping photographs along with your Samsung Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus you would possibly need to double-check that they aren’t being ruined by some seemingly random blurred spots.

The cameras on Samsung’s S23 and S23 Plus are fairly spectacular – we known as them “glorious” in our Samsung Galaxy S23 evaluation – that includes a 50MP that trumps the snapper on the iPhone 14. Nonetheless, a glitch appears to be like to be making some S23 customers’ photos much less crisp than they need to be.

Initially reported by NotebookCheck (opens in new tab), some odd blur patterns (both formed like bananas or ring-shaped) have appeared on some pictures, inflicting areas that needs to be in focus to look fuzzy. 

To make issues worse, the photographs are being taken utilizing the S23’s uncooked mode – that means the picture comes straight from the sensor and hasn’t been altered by the software program in any respect – which suggests it may very well be a {hardware} problem.

Samsung has but to problem an official assertion in regards to the matter, however we have requested for remark and can replace this story as quickly as we hear again. Within the meantime, some customers have discovered that manually focusing their S23 cameras can guarantee their photos are free from undesirable blur (by way of Sammobile (opens in new tab)). 

This implies the issue may very well be resolved by a future digicam software program replace reasonably than Samsung needing to manually repair the smartphones – with leakers suggesting an replace may very well be coming on the finish of March.

A widespread problem?

Fortunately, not each Galaxy S23 telephone seems to be affected by this problem, and house owners of the souped-up Samsung Galaxy S23 Extremely don’t look like having points both. That is possible as a result of the principle digicam on that telephone makes use of a special 200MP lens reasonably than the 50MP discovered within the common S23 and Plus. 

That stated, we’d advocate that every one Galaxy S23 house owners (regardless of the mannequin) double-check their snaps earlier than transferring on from an vital picture shoot. At the very least till Samsung points some sort of repair for the problem. 

You don’t need to assume you’re secure after which discover your pics are marred by the blur patterns which were wreaking havoc for a big minority of S23 and S23 Plus house owners.

Proper now, there is not any purpose to suspect that it is a severe problem that impacts all S23 or S23 Plus telephones, and we did not encounter the issue throughout our in-depth testing for each critiques. However if you happen to’re nonetheless contemplating different choices, then our information to the very best digicam telephones ranks all of our present favourite telephones for capturing each stills and video.