Help! Time lapse loading forever

This have been happening to me too! I am on 128gb iPhone XR iOS13.3.1 (latest official release)

The most of my time lapse since iOS12 takes forever to load even after over a day passes. This is crucial bug Apple never fixes or even mind responding. Disappointed Apple fan here.

I posted on this page last month and I still haven’t found a resolution for this issue even though I’m updating on 13.4.1 and have gone through some of the Avelar troubleshooting steps of resetting my phone I still cannot get time lapse to work on my iPhone 11 pro or iphone 11 pro max. Clearly this is an issue from apple as my devices are are two different carriers experiencing the same issue, the inability to get time lapses to play after they are recorded. I am having the issue with both videos under two minutes and over two minutes my longest attempt at a time-lapse being around 7 minutes. Please help.

Hi Destineo,

Thanks for the follow-up. You mentioned this is intermittent; does it only happen with longer Time Lapse videos?

Also, I see you're on cellular data in your screenshot. Does it make a difference if you connect to Wi-Fi and try to access the affected videos?

Cheers.

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!

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!

I never had this problem until I started enabling my live image feature when taking pictures. Once I disabled the live image feature my time lapse and slow motion videos do not take forever to load. It seemed to work for me to date by disabling that feature. Hope that helps.

I have the 11 Pro and having the same issue. It’s not just an XR issue. Some time lapses that are more than 10 minutes are fine. Some are less than 5 mins and have been loading for days. I’m in Paris and this is frustrating. How do I trust that I’ll have the footage saved???

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.

I erase all content and settings and set as new iPhone since i could not even delete the loading time lapse and for now it is ok, but i did not try to make time lapse again and will not do it until the fix for ios will come...

I’m having the same issue. iPhone 11 Pro. Took a long time lapse and it’s been loading since. Tried a ton of stuff and can’t figure it out. I really don’t want to lose the video. Anything you’ve found to work yet by chance??

Same issue, iPhone XR, 128BG, iOS 13.1.3, and NOT using iCloud Photos (but plenty of on-phone storage available). Started happening to me in the last week or two, random but more frequent on footage filming longer than 8 minutes.

I'm loathe to reset to factory just to see if it will work, because I've got corporate profile management stuff set up on it, and that's a lot of downtime to sustain.

It's not just the XR. I've got the 11Pro Max running the latest iOS 13 and I'm having this issue. I'm not on beta. Only recorded for about 10 minutes. Hopefully you don't consider that a "long" recording. This was my first time lapse with this phone, and was on a client studio build. Now I have zero footage of the work I did. Very disappointed. Especially when spending $1600 on a freaking phone.

Happening on my iPhone 11 Pro Max on iOS 13.2.2. I actually accidentally took a time lapse instead of regular video and it’s stuck loading. But when I delete it and actually fully delete it from trash it shows back up in photos again like a day or two later and still won’t load. I really don’t want to have to reset me whole phone just to delete a stupid video I took by mistake...

I really would like to get this solved without having to lose the timelapse recording I took. If I were to backup my whole phone onto my computer, then reset it and restore the backup, is it possible for the timelapse to work?

Thanks! This seemed to work for me today. I made sure my Live Photo function was turned off both at a settings level and while the Camera app was up. Then I switched over to Timelapse and the video loaded and played back perfectly.

For context, I'm on an iPhone 11 Pro and the final video length was 0:31. I don't recall how long I was recording for. Here's the video: https://www.instagram.com/p/B5BnjvjFL02/