Why does my phone take red pics in low light

When I use my flash in low light it looks red why is tht so

OK.  Most cameras have difficulty with those lighting conditions, so it's not just your phone.  I won't go into all the technical details about sensor sizes and such, but suffice it to say that the camera packed into the iPhone has to be compromised a bit so that it can fit into the phone.  The results you see are simply due to the physics of the iPhone's camera. 
As a general matter, the iPhone camera needs a lot of light to take good pictures.  The camera will take good pictures, but it needs more light than you are providing.

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