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- A recent Pixel camera bug means that tapping to set the exposure doesn’t work properly in the camera viewfinder.
- The issue only seems to appear when shooting at 1x, as the viewfinder shows automatic exposure adjustments at other zoom levels.
- It does seem like 1x images are still captured with the desired exposure, though.
Google’s Pixel phones are generally among the best camera phones around, owing to the company’s great image processing and variety of computational photography features. However, it looks like a weird bug is affecting the Pixel camera app.
Redditor Ok_Conclusion_1463 (h/t: Android Police) and other users discovered that their Pixel 8 Pro camera’s viewfinder doesn’t automatically adjust exposure based on your tap. That is, tapping on a dark part of the scene is supposed to result in a brighter overall scene while tapping on a bright part of the scene is supposed to result in a darker overall scene.