Thank you all for your feed back! Last night I was out taking photos with my son with the lens on manual focus. It started making a motor noise seemingly for no reason. Then I took a photo and the camera said, "Lens communication Error". Rebooted. Seemed to work but then after a few photos I heard My lens was bought in second hand a few years ago, but it worked well till now and it did not make any noise shaking it I reassemble the lens and the problem is the same, autofocus only in one direction and I think t is a non STM version, maybe an older one. As I described it is not a problem o Autofocus Operation The Canon 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS II isn't a USM lens, but it does still employ a lens-based motor: the lens focuses fairly fast, but is noticeably slower than a USM lens wrote: wrote: "this seems to be the perfect time to upgrade to a nicer lens." Any suggestions on a lense that won't break the bank and is compatible with a Rebel T6? If you have a small bank, then you might want to explore a used lens of the same type. Visit KEH camera. Use the selecti Hello, The autofocus on my Canon 18-55mm is malfunctioning and I'm afraid it may be broken. All the internet research I've done points to issues electronic, but I believe this to be mechanical simply because of the noise it makes. With the lens set to AF, it does nothing, but makes a slight whirr I have the same problem, a Canon EFS 18-55 IS lens and the autofocus does not work correctly, but in my case only in one way. It retracts but does not extend. If I extend manually the lens, the autofocus retracts it till in focus, but if I retract it manually it does not extend till in focus, I can ear and feel something but no movement "The camera is 3 years old I use the camera 5 days a week, and on average, I take about 800 pictures. in just one day" You are one lucky fellow! That is well over half a million shots for a camera that has a life span estimated at 75,000. I'd say it it time to retire that work horse and Take a look at the post by Canon Product Expert Jesse in this thread. 9i5l.

canon efs 18 55mm lens autofocus not working