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Unknown Part Unable to determine if your iPhone camera is a genuine Apple part.

I own a iPhone 13 pro, nerve get any repair but one day i received a notification about my camera "Unknown Part


Unable to determine if your iPhone camera is a genuine Apple part. This could be because the part is non-genuine or not functioning as expected, or the installation is incomplete." Can anyone please help and I also wanted to say that Apple is just playing with our money. Apple don't care about any of these issues



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iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Sep 22, 2023 11:17 PM

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Posted on Jan 2, 2024 3:30 PM

I am having the same issue just recently after I updated my phone to the recent IOS. My .5 does not work and most of the other features are a no go as well. I have never gotten my phone repaired nor is it broken. This is just crazy please fix it

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Nov 7, 2023 6:55 AM in response to SravanKrA

The function most certainly IS affected by this message. Loads and loads of people reporting the same error message + functionality issues (wide angle lens setting MIA, screen goes black and freezes in camera app, etc). You’re clearly not actually having the issue so your input is wildly unproductive.


Has no solution really been rolled out by Apple, seems it’s been over a year without solution?

Feb 16, 2024 6:38 PM in response to pravesh129

I have a 13 Pro Max.


I had the same message pop up this morning.


The only things I noticed were: my camera lagged / froze last night while taking a video; this morning, I went to take a picture, and the screen was blank, but if I flipped the picture around (to take a selfie), it was ok.


I am up to date with updates - iOS 17.3.1


I reser all settings, and I powered the phone off for 5 minutes. When I turned the phone back on, the notification was gone.



Jan 23, 2024 6:53 AM in response to B_ShRP

They will never admit it’s their problem and make us pay the repair charges even though it’s not our fault. Their trade in partners rejected my trade after sending it for this problem. I don’t have the Apple care anymore so I would have to take it to Genius Bar and get it repaired. This is bad from Apple that they don’t know it’s their part and no one replaced or repaired the camera. Apple genuine until it fails and Apple says oh no it’s not Apple genuine camera and we need to replace it with an Apple genuine part. So, was the camera not a genuine part in the first place or Apple sold an expensive iPhone with a cheap defective camera? Then they don’t trust all these customers who are genuinely expressing their frustration.

Dec 17, 2023 5:44 PM in response to SravanKrA

The problem is that Apple doesn't take the phone with this problem in a trade in. I never replaced any part or never had my phone repaired except this problem, where my camera says unknown part. Because of this issue, apple trade in team revised my iPhone 12 Pro Max price from $450 to zero. So, basically we can keep using this phone without any issues but Apple thinks it's a third party camera and make it basically zero worth. At this point I fee like it's a customer service issue in my opinion. It's clearly been reported by many customers that they have not replaced their camera, yet Apple doesn't seem to repair this or fix the problem free of charge. What's more bad customer service is that they reject the trade in.

Unknown Part Unable to determine if your iPhone camera is a genuine Apple part.

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