How to make it so that the camera does NOT follow the player along the axis up and down (only left and right)?

Question

Unity

Here is the code in case you need it:

public class camera : MonoBehaviour
{
float speed = 3f;
public Transform target;
void Start()
{
transform.position = new Vector3(target.transform.position.x, target.transform.position.y, transform.position.z);
}

void Update()
{
Vector3 position = target.position;
position.z = transform.position.z;
transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, position, speed * Time.deltaTime);

}
}

Answer 1

Vector3 position = new Vector3(target.position.x, transform.position.y,transform.position.z);
transform.position = Vector3.Lerp(transform.position, position, speed * Time.deltaTime);