Yes, I do. You’re not the only crazy person. If I don’t wipe it, it looks blurred, smudged, or get that weird effect where it looks like I have astigmatism.

I don’t clean the lens every time, only if I notice that it’s dirty through the onscreen preview.

I wipe it off if the picture is out of focus

Only if it looks like it’s dirty or smudged on the screen after opening the camera and see what it can see. I had more of a habit wiping the lens down every single time when I used a real camera since you couldn’t just check by looking through the lens.

I have never cleaned my phone’s camera.

I don’t. I feel like every time I slide it into my pocket and pull it out, the lens gets a quick wipe. I also wipe down my phone with a little dab of isopropyl alcohol when I get home, so it kinda keeps it from getting filthy buildups.

No. I don’t normally do things to get my camera dirty in the first place. Plus the inside of my pocket seems to do a good job at keeping it clean.

Can’t get dirty if there’s already tape over it.

I usually lick the lens clean. makes for some great photos when someone asks me to take a photo of them with their phone.

It’s wild to me that some people buy top of the line phones for the cameras then never bother to clean the lenses ever in their whole life

God forbid I take off their case, cockroaches would fly out

And I put eye drops in.

I shutdown my phone each morning (best way to remove malware or viruses). This is when I clean it with an alcohol wipe, including the camera lens. Once in a while I take it out of its case to clean out the dirt.

It’s not as detrimental as you think.

If you take a dedicated camera, put it on a tripod, and shoot it at like f22, yeah, you’ll clearly see a spec of dust or a smudge in a shot. But shoot with a wide open aperture (like your phone usually does), and its essentially invisible.

And then that little imperfection gets AI’d away by all the computational frame-stacking your phone does for every shot.

In other words, your phone’s images so processed that one spec of dust doesn’t really matter.

And even on RAWs from a mirrorless camera, it’s the least of your problems, with things like shot noise, motion blur, lens distortion, botched settings and other imperfections all having a much bigger impact on the final image.

I do it when I take a pic with my Mom’s or a couple other people’s phones, some people do not even care that they put their fingers on the lens, and some phones are just made in such a way that it’s hard to avoid if you’re not thinking about it.

Edit: I have had it happen to me a few times, I dislike calls with the phone pressed against my ear with a passion so I tend to avoid it, but I feel like that makes it more likely to smudge the lens so if you do it often.

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