I can photograph the ground from a commercial airplane window, so yes my phone can take pictures of things much further than 2 miles away. Distance from the sub

I can photograph the ground from a commercial airplane window, so yes my phone can take pictures of things much further than 2 miles away. Distance from the subject isn’t really all that important provided it’s big enough, lit well and you can focus to infinity. The timing is tricky but 2/10 of a second isn’t an unthinkably brief window for snapping a photo, and if you use burst capture it’s trivial.