Comments on: Dark Spot on iPhone Camera?

By: AngeL

AngeL — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:58:20 +0000

My iPhone fall down and I began to check it immediately! After few minutes I realized that I got some problems with my camera! Awful grey spot!!! I was searching for a solution of this problem, but I didn’t find anything on Russian websites (I’m from Russia)…fortunately, I came here…thank you a lot!!! This slap solution works!!!! I’m happy…hope,this spot won’t appear again!!!

Please, let me know, if somebody faced this problem again!

By: Katoagogo

Katoagogo — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:11:47 +0000

I have an iPhone 4. Just had a 2 foot drop to a soft floor, black spot appeared on the lens and in the pictures. Read about the slap solution, performed the action several times, and the spot has disappeared. Thanks so much for this post. Otherwise I’d still be crying over the spilt iphone.

By: James Fancher

James Fancher — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:51:58 +0000

I used the knee slap method on my iphone 4 after several other approaches. I had two spots – the first six slaps reduced it to one and several more and the other was gone. BTW shaking the phone – blowing – and a Q-tip had no effect.

By: mitchie

mitchie — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 06:28:20 +0000

20 hand taps works for me!

By: aaron

aaron — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 03:44:29 +0000

Iphone 4 with identical problem – developed yesterday. Almost exact location as picture above.

By: Turner

Turner — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 02:05:14 +0000

slapping it on my hand like 20 times work for me! it was with an lg optimus though

By: Brana

Brana — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:31:16 +0000

OMG gStAv you RULE! Your tip worked! Slapped it and it went away! Thanks so much dude!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 02:51:16 +0000

Heh, came here via a Google search. I had a spot that appeared in all my photos as well. Smacked it a few times (gently!) and it’s gone now.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:47:00 +0000

Wow! The knee trick worked! It’s like an effin’ etch-a-sketch, dude!

By: Jure Goručan

Jure Goručan — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:44:52 +0000

Slapping trick also worked on my iPhone 4! Thanks a lot

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 20:44:55 +0000

The same thing just happened to my iPhone.. I dropped it and the next time i tried to use my camera there was three little black marks about the size of a pencil point .. I’ve tried cleaning the lense and tapping on the lense and nothing will work .. the only way to fix the problem is to get a whole new phone ?

By: anna

anna — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:46:46 +0000

holy cow! it worked

By: Daniel limdholm

Daniel limdholm — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:05:13 +0000

I got the same problem on My iphone 4. I guess it happened when it slided out of my pants. Ie drop of 1-2 inches. Anyway, i tapped it to My knee and it sent out of the picture. Didnt go brutal on the poor thing.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 03:14:42 +0000

Hey thanks so much for making this blog. I was having the same problem with my flip video camcorder. I spent quite a while searching google, but nobody seemed to be having the same problem… Anyways, I was in the middle of filming a youtube show with it (which I already put hours of sweaty work towards) when the problem showed up. I did not want to hake to spend another $100 dollars for another camera. Anyways, I tried the knee-slapping method and after one slap the spot was totally gone! THANK YOU SO MUCH gStAv!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:01:29 +0000

I had the same problem and lightly tapped against my palm (camera side down) a couple times, and the spot is now gone. It must have been some residue left over from the factory. Anyway, thanks for the great tip!

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:01:43 +0000

I had the same problem.
If physically cleaning does not work, download the powerful free editing software GIMP at http://www.freeze.com/download.....4362974540.
Then use the cloning tool to eliminate the spots on your pictures
1) Select the Clone tool from the toolbox (looks like a head and torso)
2) Point your mouse over the area that is to be copied over the dark spot i.e. a piece of sky in an outdoor shot, and hold down the CTRL key.
3) Release the CTRL key and use your mouse to brush over the dark spot.

This worked great for me to touch up my pictures with unremovable spots that began to appear using my Canon A570.

Good luck.

By: Alijan

Alijan — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:02:11 +0000

gStAv October 13, 2009 at 11:17 am

Hi you guys!

Had the exact same problem.
Got it when I dropped my phone from 2 feet(!) onto rubber floor (at the gym).

Resolved it by slap my baby with the cam side agains my knee two times!!

No more dark spots in cam mode nor in photos taken! hehe!
Not the vanilla-way to go maybe, but well worth a shot for you who don´t want to wait in line for a new phone once again (,me included).

Will send it to service later if this problem happend again.

Let me hear if this works for you too!

Dude i had the same problem (after a bad fall for my phone) and my phone is out of warranty so i was fearing the worse , i thought I’d give the slap on knee solution a shot and IT WORKED !!!! You are a genius mate !

By: mommadanyell

mommadanyell — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:09:47 +0000

Knee-slap didn’t help me, but I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one with the problem!

Apple store friends, here I come……

By: Zhikai

Zhikai — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:59:07 +0000

hey! thanks for the tips, i slap it a few times and the dark spot eventually disappear. been having this problem for quite a while.
now the problem is solved and hopefully the slapping didnt damage the camera much. =)

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:10:16 +0000

Same problem on my 3GS shortly after a drop. Didn’t try the knee slap. Just took it in a got a new one at the Apple store.