Q: IPhone 4s crashes in 7.1 when trying to view photo from camera

No, the Genius Bar has always been free of charge.

Some here! Germany, Iphone 4s, 32Gb, until IOS7 no problems at all, iphone tries to focus in camera mode, stays blurred, then freezes - need to hard reset it. everything else works find - pls release a bugfix! 

Who are you talking to? We are just users like you and can't release any bug fixes.

of course, but these are apples own communities, so i guess apple will crawl them and see, whats going on here. …

They don't, though, that's my point. If you want Apple to fix something, you have to contact them directly. These forums are manned by users like you and not by Apple.

I have been having the same issue for some time - I can't view photos I've taken within the camera app.  Recently it got worse, as it has for others, where the camera app will lock entirely and freeze the phone.  After a couple minutes the phone restarts.

This morning, just before the frozen screen of the camera app went off to begin a restart, the image of the Twitter app appeared for a split second.  Why would another app show up while running the camera?  So I went into multitasking by double-tapping the home button, just as the first responder, griff w, said.  iOS: Understanding multitasking  I deleted around twenty apps from the multitasking bar, including Twitter.  So far, so good.  I checked that I have the Background App Refresh setting at off.  Every so often, I will go back into multitasking and close those background apps.  I think our 4Ss don't have the muscle to multitask like the 5s and 5Ss do and that's what has us getting hung up.

I have been having the same issue for several months, although I'm not sure it's related to IOS7 - it started happening to my iPhone while I was overseas in May, 2014. Seems to happen when using camera from locked screen and when I'm signed in. 

Also, about the same time, my iPhone photos stopped migrating to the iCloud (now just a few and it takes days), and my current month's photo-stream stopped showing up in the Recents column in iPhoto on my Air.

Genius Bar says that the September 2014 software release will make major changes to iPhoto - that it will become "seamless across all Apple devices."  I'm cautiously hopeful - iPhoto (and now Camera) have been a challenge to me for years.

it also happen (EXACTLY) on my phone 4s ios7.1.2. you obviously didnt know what you are talking about. are u a sheep.

Same issue. I can't access my photo roll from the camera. It freezes and then I have to X out of everything. I am not multitasking either. I am using version 7.1.2 (11D257).

What troubleshooting steps have you taken?