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kevinjarrett
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October 22, 2025
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Why these different image aspect ratios?

  • October 22, 2025
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Hi all, this has been bugging me, happens a lot. Here's an example, two photos, one taken right after the other, using the shutter button. Why different aspect ratios? Thanks!

This looks 1:1This looks 4:5
Best answer by MetaStoreHelp

Hello kevin!

 

We see here that you are wondering why the photos you took appear to have different aspect ratios. We would be happy to help answer this question for you.

 

The reason why the photos appear in different aspect ratios is because, when a hair or finger blocks a little bit of the camera lens while taking a picture, it will automatically crop out whatever is blocking the camera and therefore appear as a different aspect ratio than the picture before, as there may not have been something blocking the camera in the first picture.

 

We hope this information is helpful and you will continue taking such beautiful pictures!

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kevinjarrett
New Participant
October 23, 2025

Yes, I know, the first image isn't really 1:1 but it's definitely different than the other. And, the exact same thing just happened with video. Two captures, one right after another, one is full-screen vertical, the other is less than full screen. WTF? TIA...

MetaStoreHelp
Community Manager
October 24, 2025

Hello kevin!

 

We see here that you are wondering why the photos you took appear to have different aspect ratios. We would be happy to help answer this question for you.

 

The reason why the photos appear in different aspect ratios is because, when a hair or finger blocks a little bit of the camera lens while taking a picture, it will automatically crop out whatever is blocking the camera and therefore appear as a different aspect ratio than the picture before, as there may not have been something blocking the camera in the first picture.

 

We hope this information is helpful and you will continue taking such beautiful pictures!

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kevinjarrett
New Participant
November 11, 2025

Thx!

SnoopyDoggy69
Inspiring
October 26, 2025

Hey Kevin,

That's the automatic improvement. 

To change this go to settings-> device settings -> media -> improvement on recordings (or something like that. I have German language) and there you will find two sliders where you can enable or disable the autocrop feature.

You're welcome 

kevinjarrett
New Participant
November 11, 2025

Thx!