OnePlus 9 Pro users reporting massive shutter lag while taking photos in camera app

OnePlus has effectively ditched its old mantra of creating flagship killers as their devices have, over the years, crept up in price.

In a bid to differentiate themselves from the crowded premium segment of the market where new OnePlus devices are meant to compete in, OnePlus went all out with their 2021 devices, the OnePlus 9 series.

OnePlus partnered with Hasselblad, a company best known for its premium cameras and for the cameras used in the Lunar landing back in the day.

This partnership was meant to bring the OnePlus 9 camera up to par with its competition, an aspect that previous OnePlus devices kinda lagged behind.

The OnePlus 9 Pro came with all the bells and whistles from this partnership and was meant to be the crown jewel of this union.

While the jury is still out on the performance of the camera of these OnePlus 9 devices due to this partnership, it is coming to light that there could be an issue with the OnePlus 9 Pro’s camera.

According to users of the OnePlus 9 Pro, the device camera has an annoying shutter lag that oftentimes means that users have to miss shots (1,2,3,4).

Another big issue with OP 9 pro, whenever you click photos, it always get delayed a sec. Every damn photos I take get distorted due to the same shutter lag. Why can’t it be crisp like every other flagship phones. Why there is a shutter delay and why is not being fixed?? There is no way to shoot fast moving objects, it always gets shaken due to this lag. Very bad experience with OP lately. Their quality is just going down the hill.
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The camera takes pictures shows the picture in preview circle but if we move the phone the pic in preview gets distorted. It’s like camera is still capturing after the image preview is generated.
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Luckily though, OnePlus seems to have listened to its users and has since acknowledged this issue, noting hat the developers are working on it.

We have made a note of this and our developer team is currently working on this. We will keep you posted regarding the further updates. We appreciate your support and patience in this regard.

Regards,
Ghazala
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To recall, we have already seen an OTA update going out to the OnePlus 9 devices, an update that, among other things, was meant to enhance the devices’ camera performance.

Here’s to hoping that OnePlus pushes out more updates to fix this OnePlus 9 Pro shutter lag issue and further improve this device’s camera as it is one of the reasons the company justifies its rather high price.

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