Exact same issue happening in my iphone 12 very often, running latest ios 15.1, seems its not fixed yet.. I just stopped wallpaper changing. Will check if its comes again.
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iPhone 12 Pro iOS 14 Frequent Camera Crash Problem (Cause found but no fix - related to wallpapers?)
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I am on 15.1 update , but today i got this issue, I am regularly changing wallpaper 4 times in a day with shortcut automation, now i am stopping this for checking the issue arise again.
I will be curious to know your results. I have heard from quite a few people that it's resolved in 15 but maybe certain cases still trigger it
I thought I was going crazy!!!!
iPhone 11 Pro
I have the same issue on 15.1 and 15.1 beta 2.
I’m changing my wallpaper every 5 minutes through an automation and I tried everything.
Tried restarting with no iCloud support, tried removing all my pictures from iCloud, tried disabling features on camera.
I’m so happy this isn’t a specific bug only I’m facing.
Hopefully it will get resolved soon
Edit: FYI respring solves it the same as reboot. Meaning doing anything that forces springboard (the homepage UI) to reload - like changing the iPhone’s language.
Unfortunately I’m not jailbroken so I can either restart or change language. Haven’t found a quicker way yet
iPhone 11 Pro
I have the same issue on 15.1 and 15.1 beta 2.
I’m changing my wallpaper every 5 minutes through an automation and I tried everything.
Tried restarting with no iCloud support, tried removing all my pictures from iCloud, tried disabling features on camera.
I’m so happy this isn’t a specific bug only I’m facing.
Hopefully it will get resolved soon
Edit: FYI respring solves it the same as reboot. Meaning doing anything that forces springboard (the homepage UI) to reload - like changing the iPhone’s language.
Unfortunately I’m not jailbroken so I can either restart or change language. Haven’t found a quicker way yet
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Update on some testing.
I just finished a testing cycle where I changed to dark mode, changed wallpaper, took a picture, changed to white mode, changed wallpaper, took a picture and repeat.
I managed to do 50 changes (50 dark / white mode & 50 wallpaper changes). All wallpaper changes were made through a shortcut action, and it’s a random wallpaper from a list.
So far no problems, so I have to conclude that time is an imperative issue here.
I restarted my phone at about 8Am my time, I’ll try to take a picture every hour or so and update on the finding.
Another thing worth mentioning: I have an automation that changes wallpaper automatically every 5 minutes, so the phone will keep changing throughout the day
I just finished a testing cycle where I changed to dark mode, changed wallpaper, took a picture, changed to white mode, changed wallpaper, took a picture and repeat.
I managed to do 50 changes (50 dark / white mode & 50 wallpaper changes). All wallpaper changes were made through a shortcut action, and it’s a random wallpaper from a list.
So far no problems, so I have to conclude that time is an imperative issue here.
I restarted my phone at about 8Am my time, I’ll try to take a picture every hour or so and update on the finding.
Another thing worth mentioning: I have an automation that changes wallpaper automatically every 5 minutes, so the phone will keep changing throughout the day
I have. I also haven't had any camera problems or posted in this thread in almost 10 months.
I was being funny (or trying to be). My bad for only reading the first few post in this thread and replying versus reviewing the entire thread.
So I finally gave in and stopped changing my wallpaper all together now.
It's not only the camera that caused me issues, the entire iPhone was lagging and was low on memory.
Just switching from one app to another forced the app to reload.
Hopefully that will get solved soon
It's not only the camera that caused me issues, the entire iPhone was lagging and was low on memory.
Just switching from one app to another forced the app to reload.
Hopefully that will get solved soon
Made an account just to reply to this. I have the iPhone 13 pro and have still been experiencing the same issue. I went through a long process, I did everything that Apple support said I should do. We even go to the point of a replacement and it still happened. I am not changing wallpapers and I have like maybe 5 apps open at a time. Apple still hasn't fixed the issue.
I had this issue but to me it seemed related to regularly executing a shortcut, regardless of whether it was changing a wallpaper or not.
I had a shortcut that would enable focus mode every time I opened the camera app, and disable it when closing it. By doing that, sometimes the camera would record defective files in video mode.
After disabling the shortcut, it never happened again. I had it on all iOS 15.x versions.
I had a shortcut that would enable focus mode every time I opened the camera app, and disable it when closing it. By doing that, sometimes the camera would record defective files in video mode.
After disabling the shortcut, it never happened again. I had it on all iOS 15.x versions.
It is strange to me that this is still happening with different cases for people. I was okay with not having wallpaper changing multiple times a day to resolve the issue I had, but seems others are having issues still and not using changing wallpaper at all. I will say that I am having shortcuts execute multiple times a day and this issue hasn't presented itself for me again
IOS 15.5 recently released. Can anyone confirm if this issue still persists or it has been fixed
I just installed iOS 15.7 and I am still having this problem. I have never used wallpaper changer on any iPhones.
Using only dark mode.
Yes I tried to change to back Light mode after reading this article.
Didnt help, still have the issue.
As Im writing this, there is also 16.0 iOS available.
Going to install it and see what happens.
iPhone 12 Pro Max
Does rebooting help to solve it at least?
I'm on 16.0 but due to new Lock Screen setups I haven't been using shortcuts wallpaper Changing and also stopped doing it long ago due to this exact issue as well.
Yes rebooting is and was the only way to solve this.
I was filming the band and first freeze happened after 8 videos (overall 9min 22sec of video material). I rebooted phone and started to film again.
Next video was 4:15min long and it started to be kinda laggy, and from this same video its laggy from 3:44 to 4:15. And it freezes again. After rewatching video sound was perfectly recorded but the lagging on the video was also recorded.
I rebooted again. This time it didnt help. I rebooted again.
Now its working again.
(Freeze/black screen was always on video and photo mode, even if I only used video mode)
Next freeze happened after 4 videos.
(All videos was recorded on 1080p 60fps and HDR setup was ON, except some in the middle I tried to change 1080p 30fps and HDR off) I feel like it didnt have any effect.