Apple says you can take photos of the sun with an unfiltered iPhone camera, because the lens is too wide-angle to focus a dangerous amount of light on the senso

Apple says you can take photos of the sun with an unfiltered iPhone camera, because the lens is too wide-angle to focus a dangerous amount of light on the sensor. However, it can't really handle the brightness, so if you want to see anything interesting, you should still use a fiter. https://www.wsj.com/articles/yes-your-iphone-can-photograph-the-eclipse-1502393210 https://www.wsj.com/articles/yes-your-iphone-can-photograph-...