If you are buying a new iPhone, don’t point them at self driving cars! The radar permanently damages the sensor on the camera!!
Marques Brownlee, better known as MKBHD, recently shared a frustrating issue with his iPhone 16 Pro camera that might surprise a lot of smartphone users. While recording videos, he began to notice a strange constellation of bright dots showing up in every shot. The YouTuber first thought that it was a glitch or dust on the lens, but weeks later, the dots never went away and continued to be a distortion on the lens. After testing and searching, he found out that the problem was much more permanent than he had hoped. It turns out that the actual sensor in the iPhone was permanently damaged.
MKBHD warns that LiDAR from modern self-driving cars can permanently damage iPhone 16 Pro sensors, leaving bright dots
According to Marques, the culprit could be the Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) scanner, a system used in many modern cars, especially those with advanced driver assistance or self-driving features. It works by shooting bursts of laser light to map the environment, and while they are harmless to the naked eye, the concentrated beams can be dangerous to sensitive electronics like a smartphone camera sensor.
https://wccftech.com/iphone-16-pro-lidar-camera-damage-mkbhd-warning/