# iPhone Continuity camera: undesired face recognition+pan

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**Created:** [June 21, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/iphone-continuity-camera-undesired-face-recognition-pan/13628 "2023-06-21T20:30:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/iphone-continuity-camera-undesired-face-recognition-pan/13628/1 "2023-06-21T20:30:06Z")

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I am trying to use my iPhone 12 Pro Camera + OpenCV.  
It had been working well but since recently iPhone camera started to demonstrate undesired behavior - I believe it detects faces and smoothly pan to make the face closer to the center.

The iPhone camera is the best option if you want to have a high quality camera for free (if you already have an iPhone). The quality of the image is much better than any USB camera.

How to disable that panning? Below I demonstrate it in the video.

The code for that is simple. Something like cv2.imshow(“camera”, cv2.VideoCapture(…).read()).

iPhone12 pro was fixed _on the tripod_ but as you see from the video, the camera shifts the image. Pan is performed by camera software - it happens somewhere in between the iPhone camera and my app [driver?].

Probably someone knows how to disable it and make it predictable?

[https://www.reddit.com/r/opencv/comments/14dvahw/bughardware\_iphone\_continuity\_camera\_undesired/](https://www.reddit.com/r/opencv/comments/14dvahw/bughardware_iphone_continuity_camera_undesired/)