How to fix upper chest?

Incline bench & incline fly. I keep bench around 30 degrees for bench. My front delts start to jump in when I go higher. For the flies, I prefer using cables so that I can keep tension on the muscle at the top of the rep. Go full range of motion on both and really stretch pecs at the bottom of the rep.

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Incline bench & incline fly. I keep bench around 30 degrees for bench. My front delts start to jump in when I go higher. For the flies, I prefer using cables so that I can keep tension on the muscle at the top of the rep. Go full range of motion on both and really stretch pecs at the bottom of the rep.

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This. Only thing I would clarify is using dumbells on incline bench to really get that pec stretch where the dumbell touches your front delt

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Very under utilized excercise for upper chest.

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Interesting. I never felt like I lacked upper chest development until recently, and oddly enough my shoulders haven’t been loving dips lately so I stopped doing them for probably the last 6 months. I used to be a monster at dips. Seems I need to hop back into em!

Dips target lower chest.
Any pressing motion the targeted area will be where your hands stop.

My favorite for upper chest is incline cable press and/or fly. Put the bench in between cables. Also machine incline press with free weights, dumbbell incline press, and chest press but lower the seat so hands stop at top of chest.

Maybe your pecs look sunken because your front delts got so juicy?
Maybe you got fat?

Don't ditch the flat bench, but do incorporate incline barbell and dumbbell presses into your training. You can do flat and incline pressing together in a training cycle, or you can rotate back and forth.

Dips are essential, technique is important, but if you're doing them safely then you're doing yourself a huge favor. You could also work in some cable flies if you have access to the equipment. And don't forget about standard push-ups and all the different push-up variations.

If I was in your state, I would add some kind of incline pressing at least once a week(could alternate with flat bench or just do incline press for a multi-week cycle or two before rotating back to flat), dips, and push-ups(focusing on using handles so I could get a deeper bottom stretch). The dips and push-ups I'd do anywhere from 3 - 6 days a week, starting out with multiple low rep sets and just building up slowly but consistently. I have the equipment to do it all at home so it's not a problem to work this way, but if you don't have any equipment at home you could just work this stuff in to your gym sessions somehow.

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Dips target lower chest.

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You're doing them wrong.

You're right. They do focus lower chest.

Try different exercises, machines & angles. In my opinion, chest moreso than other body parts, depends on your individual anatomy and what works best for you. See what loads the pecs, minimum delt activation & gets you the best mind muscle connection. There’s no one size fits all.

It could partially be posture. I have this issue too.
My shoulders kind of roll forward so it shortens the length of my upper chest muscle. I’ve had to consciously pull my shoulders back to really get my upper chest to be visible.