I have taken time lapses a few times on my iPhone XR and so far the time lapse has been stuck on loading after I have completed the time lapse. This has happened twice now out of the few times I have used it.
Now I cannot trust the time lapse feature as I lose all the footage because it can’t be used. Is there a fix for this?
iPhone XR, iOS 12
Hi! I know this is from some time ago, but I also had this issue. After trying a few different things, I realized it only happened to me if my live photos was turned on. Make sure to turn off live photos and then swipe to time lapse, and as far as I know the ones filmed that aren't loading won't ever load :(
11 Pro Max 256GB 13.3.1 has the same problem too.
Same with my long time lapses!
iPhone 11 Pro Max
What does that mean? How do I do that?
Totally works. Up you go...
Yes, I just got bit by this bug too. iPhone 11 pro running 13.4.1. Bummer.
I just reported it May30 and nothing is happening
For me the problem is escalating. I made a short time laps, about 10 minutes of filming, and it's still loading after 2 days.
I have iPhone SE 2020 just took maybe a 5 minute time lapse and got the loading screen. Needs a fix!
Im on the iphone 11 and this still works! yay! just... yay
Same issue .. I have iPhone 11 pro max, 13.5.1 update.. my time lapse video still loading since forever !
I just now tried out that setting. It worked at least for a 5 minutes clip. I'll try a longer capture this evening (I live in the Philippines) for about 30 minutes.
Just replying to say that this issue still exists on the latest update on my iPhone XR. I am very disappointed as I have no way to get this footage again. Please do something about this, Apple!
Exactly the same happened too me!
I did one too on my iPhone XR today! It was of me painting the doors of a metal container, and it was roughly 1hour 30minutes of film, then i stopped it and waited for it to process for at least 30minutes, and after 3hours it still wasn’t done so I gave up and deleted it! Very disappointed.
Needs fixing as it is definitely a bug!
Hey guy. I have the same problem with the time lapse in an XR 128 GB iphone. For me it started only at the end of September at a longer time-lapse video, (but not too long). Before that I was doing long and short time lapse videos with no problem. Hope they can fix it. I use iCloud upload too.
So I am having the exact same issue. I downloaded the Apple Support App on my iPhone and found a chat option.
I do not have a fix yet, but they did some basic troubleshooting which may work for some. One was to connect your phone to your computer over USB (I haven’t done that in years since I sync everything over wifi) and found the file on my phone. I tried to transfer it over to my computer, but it errored again. What this means is it is still trying to process the video into a timelapse video on my phone. It has not tried to sync the file to any cloud platform.
what this meant is it is now above the pay grade of the basic phone support people. They have now escalated it to their Creative Media area and gave me a business hours phone number.
not a fix, but positive steps in the right direction I guess?!
Help! Time lapse loading forever
