Why does my face look chubbier on my iPhone 6 camera?

When I look in the mirror my face doesn't look as big as I look on my iPhone. Anyone else with this problem?

It's the Kim Jong Un effect. He too is actually very thin, almost skeletal but photos put on 50-80 pounds. You are having the same issue.

This is due to the different angle of views (AOV) of the lenses! A camera's angle of view depends not only on the lens, but also on the sensor. For a given camera-subject distance, longer lenses magnify the subject more. Because different lenses generally require a different camera-subject distance to preserve the size of a subject, changing the angle of view can indirectly distort perspective, changing the apparent relative size of the subject and foreground. Here is an example of how different AOV's affect the image taken

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