@poet2013 wrote:
I feel more places are being more cautious due to increase fraud/charge offs since covid and all these data breaches. Also could be bad apples getting membership via backdoors like american consumer council leaving sour taste due verbally abusing staff etc.
You still may be able to redo app with different cell. I found my older cam worked better and got approved on retry with other banks/credit unions.
Penfed always been kinda conservative but was getting nicer until covid. They havent shown me love lately on their preapprovals like in the past.
It's usually newer cameras that work better. iPhone cameras are usually middle of the pack at best. They look fine until you're looking at them on a computer monitor on a screen that doesn't smudge everything together to hide the flaws. Apple's Retina displays are designed to look good even if it's not an accurate representation of the image data.
Then, they use that ridiculous HEVC based imaging compression format, which is heavily patented and can't be losslessly converted to a format that people actually accept.
I'm heavily into Google products at this point because they have stability, security, ease of use, the latest features, and thank God Microsoft is finally dying like, "Eww, some people still use that?"
For many years Apple was the obvious "other" choice so they could get away with making decisions which ran counter to common sense.
Anyway, probably the banks don't like iPhones as much because their imaging is less accurate than higher end Android phones. There was that whole "All Asian women can unlock the phone." facial recognition Apple had a few years back. They tend to ship things that don't really work.
When you see a photo someone uploads to social media and all the fine detail is lost, they're using an iPhone, and likely the front facing camera.
