Help! Time lapse loading forever

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

Posted on Mar 19, 2019 1:09 AM

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Posted on Apr 11, 2020 5:34 PM

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 :(

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Feb 9, 2020 7:03 PM in response to Destineo

Same. Have lost some incredible content as time lapses are how show all my work come together to share with others. It’s why I got the biggest baddest iPhone a few months ago and now it’s most important piece to me just eats my footage up and never lets it see the light of day. Worse part is that both apple and android based companies are all ****. Are we gonna have people on Mars before we can have a phone that simply works? Let the jailbreakers back so we can pick up your slack where needed to grab things that are hopefully in the root where they belong after filming.

Feb 18, 2020 10:55 AM in response to Destineo

Same as everyone else, I've been experiencing this problem since I upgraded to iPhone 11 Pro, it happens especially with longer lapses which makes it extra infuriating when it doesn't work. This type of problem shouldn't take more than a year to fix- iOS 13 should have resolved it, why such a long wait? Please Please Please fix this issue, bump it up in the "to-do" pile Apple.

Feb 29, 2020 9:50 PM in response to erichen


such a joke. Here all this work and marketing went into a camera yet you can’t even shoot timelapses of any real length without the high risk of it not being able to save. I’ve lost pure gold of documenting art projects from beginning to end. Nothing worse then framing a shot, spending a few hours on creating your piece and then boom. Apple ate your content in its never ending loading spiral. It’s 2020 y’all get it together. At least tell us how low of resolution we have to set our phones to in order to capture time lapses.

Apr 17, 2020 2:56 AM in response to Destineo

Same problem here with an iPhone Pro 512GB.


I recorded this week a great time-lapse video that now is not loading. I tried everything, restarting the phone, turning off Live Photos, and even left the phone for 9 straight hours trying to load the video without success.


I'm astonished this thing has been going for months and it isn't fixed yet.

May 9, 2020 10:36 PM in response to Destineo

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.

Jun 22, 2020 9:15 AM in response to Destineo

Same issue here. I have an iPhone XR 64GB, running iOS 13.5.1.


I made a timelapse video and it has been saying "Loading..." for 20 minutes and it eats up several gigabytes of storage, even though I recorded only 3-4 minutes. I can't even delete it because when I remove it and empty the recycle bin as well, it somehow reappears in the Photo app few hours later. It's crazy!


Almost every timelapse video has this issue which I recorded longer than a minute. Only about every 4th timelapse video comes out without issues.

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