iPhone camera not working after iOS 14 update

Hello... after I updated my iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 14, my camera acts up. It doesn't load the camera. I then try to turn on the flashlight but it doesn't work either. Sometimes, I try to repeatedly turn on and off the flashlight until suddenly it works. I then come back to the camera and keep switching the camera modes, and rarely, it functions. Once I exit it an try the camera on an app though, it doesn't work again. Restarting didn't help my problem.




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Posted on Sep 17, 2020 12:19 AM

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Posted on Sep 17, 2020 1:41 AM

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Sep 19, 2020 10:30 AM in response to tristafé

I have the same ******* issue. I am so ****** right now. A perfectly working phone is ruined. I upgraded to 13.7 last Friday, my microphone stopped working. Couldn’t take calls or videos from any app.

Updated to 14 today and bloody camera stops working. I was just clicking photos today morning n then I got a msg from family saying new update may fix your issue.

I do it and boom and another issue. APPLE you better fix this else you are going to lose **** lot of customers

Sep 19, 2020 7:06 PM in response to tristafé

Need help - got camera back after using 3s timer fix (see previous post) BUT still cannot get the microphone to work. Cannot make phone calls and this is HORRIBLE. It's simple unbelievable that Apple can do this to its customers. It's been too long without a microphone/phone and beginning to wonder the purpose? Force an upgrade? Apple, please come up with a fix!

Sep 20, 2020 12:17 PM in response to tristafé

I have an iPhone 7 Plus and I'm experiencing the exact same issues. My mic hasn't worked since ios13 and now after upgrading to ios14 my camera and flash have stopped working. I deleted the NFC thing from my control center as someone here advised and I it worked momentarily, I was able to take a quick pic but now the camera is not working again. This really sucks!

Sep 20, 2020 5:42 PM in response to tristafé

Is apple going to make us wait for weeks until they do the update to fix these issues? I don't think that it's right we have to wait to use our camera, microphone, and flashlight, and the apps that go with the camera and microphone. We spend too much money on these phones (and we just got my daughter the 11 back in April) not to use the features!!! Apple is making it to where we will just go to Android and we have been an Apple Family for many years!

Sep 20, 2020 8:21 PM in response to angeeeellllaaaaa

Sorry to hear that. I skipped camera dor couple days but I didn’t have much to do so not major loss. But if you have events and nor able to take pictures, that’s absolutely not pleasant experience. This is not beta software release but official release and apple make such amateur mistakes, I wonder what head of engineering and QA would have to say.

even though I am using an old phone does not mean I do not buy new iPhones for my family members EVERY YEAR! Disappointing the Apple user community can be major disaster for their loyal customer base.

Sep 21, 2020 2:26 AM in response to tristafé

I’m honestly so mad about this situation like I have videos to make and stuff and I can’t make my content with all this iOS 14 bs it’s annoying apple needs to check there things before releasing it and ruining everyone’s phones like come on now and my flash doesn’t work when I go to snap the camera doesn’t work on TikTok where I make videos isn’t working like bruh

Sep 21, 2020 6:21 AM in response to tristafé

suddenly last night after having my phone work completely fine, my microphone went out. like some people have said the speaker button is grayed out and you cant hear nor, have people hear you during calls. i saw the latest update and thought maybe this will fix it. nope. i get on my phone this morning to have both my mic and camera "broke." what do i do!! could someone help me

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