PIP plus video on bird camera clips

When I view bird feeder camera clips I get the main camera view plus a PIP. ( smaller video within the larger). How can I stop this?? Smart Motion tagging is set to off. I want just the one larger view. TIA

Wyze Battery Cam Pro

Welcome to the Forum, @Lubster! :wave:

Since Wyze Bird Feeder is capable of using various Wyze Cam models, it might be helpful to share which Cam you’re actually using. A screenshot from the Cam’s live view screen could also be informative.

If you’re using something like Cam v4, then I wonder if what you’re seeing is the Smart Focus inset. Do you have Smart Focus enabled in the “menu bar” (icon control strip below the live view pane)? If it’s green, then tap that to disable it and see if that accomplishes your goal.

I have confirmed in original message the name of camera and that smart focus is set to off.

Thank you for the update. I added that to your topic’s tags.

Since I don’t use iOS/iPadOS, I don’t know if there’s an OS-level setting can be used to enable/disable PiP (this is the case with the Android Wyze app, where a setting in App info ➜ Advanced enables/disables this), but I’d probably look for something like that. Again, sharing a screenshot that illustrates what you’re seeing and what you want to eliminate from view might be helpful to other community members who wish to assist.

Here’s what shows up on and off throughout the clip. And again, I have motion tagging turned off. Thanks for your help!

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You have Smart Focus enabled.

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I do not have motion tagging on as you can see

I didn’t say you had Motion Tagging enabled, and that’s irrelevant to your issue. Motion Tagging is the feature that inserts the green boxes that follow a moving object (changing pixels) around in your video when you have that feature turned on.

You have Smart Focus enabled, as I speculated in my original reply:

In the image you shared today (which is very helpful, so thank you! :+1:), the Smart Focus feature is clearly enabled, because its icon is green. It’s sitting between the  SD Card and  Download icons in the “menu bar”. You should tap that to turn it off (make it be not green).

Here’s another clue that Smart Focus is what you’re seeing:

If nothing in the main field of view is a moving item of interest, then Smart Focus stays out of the way. That means if you’re looking at a live view where nothing is really happening, you don’t see the PiP-like overlay. If Smart Focus detects something in the image that it determines is worth zooming into, then that’s when you get the PiP-ish effect. This is why you’re describing this as a transient experience.

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I think you’re confusing/blending two totally different features.

Motion Tagging
Smart Focus

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