iPhone 16 Pro Max's camera crashes when taking photos

It is early days but 18.1 appears to have fixed the issue for me on my iPhone 16 Pro Max and the update has also vastly improved the operation of the capture button (plus added Apple Intelligence functions)

Apple support had me turn off the Macro Control in the Settings - Camera and it seemed to fix it for now.

It looks like that ios 18.1 has fixed my issue

I mean it’s been 24 hours only since I installed the update but I tried the camera app and the sode button several times to see if the app crashes or not, but so far it’s seems fine. I hope I dont face that issue again coz it’s super frustrating and makes me wanna throw away my phone. Fingers crossed

Will keep y’all posted

I have updated to iOS 18.1 it has now has fixed the camera problems still taking pictures every day since the update and all the other apps that I have running at the same time have no lag, stall or general slowness to respond, also the camera buttons work as they should do so hopefully Apple have made the fix?

No issues personally (I have been using the camera heavily since receiving it on Friday). Someone else also mentioned they had an issue with Apple Music…I have not had any issues with that either. Not sure if those of you having issues are experiencing something that is a hardware issue (although one person states that they had their phone replaced only to have the issue remain) or if it is a random bug that isn’t affecting anyone. If you haven’t already, contact Apple for further assistance asap. If it is an iOS bug the more that report it the quicker it can be addressed with an update once they are able to do so. If it is a hardware failure you can get it exchanged while still in the return/exchange window or opt to return it and wait until a later date to try again once you feel like the issue may have been addressed (especially once it gets closer to that window closing if you don’t feel comfortable waiting for an unknown time for a fix to arrive).

Further update have been running 18.1 since Monday and have taken pictures every few hours and still no issues so pretty sure it is all fixed now.

Same here, I cannot take videos or photos. My phones freezes and restarts. I see a lot of kernel panics in the Analytics as well (Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements > Analytics Data > panic-full-YYYY-MM-DD-TIME). Could you check yours as well? Do you see any such logs?

edit: Apple also replaced my phone today and the replacement is experiencing the same exact issue.

Yes I have the same problem with my iPhone 16 Pro Max the

camera app crashes every time I take a photo and following Apple support the

only thing you can do is shut the phone down wait 30 seconds then restart.

Following this procedure my iPhone will take pictures all

day with no problem but I noticed the problem seems to manifest after a

recharge at night, contacted Apple and let them run a diagnostic test but they

could find no problems so in my opinion maybe a firmware issue, currently

running 18.0.1.

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Yes same for me I updated my iPhone 16 Pro Max as soon as 18.1 was released and have been able to pictures every day since with no issues to other apps as other people have stated so looks this has fixed it.

Forgot to include that you have to do a hard boot after turning off the Macro Control.

iPhone 13 mini, just upgraded to 18 and same problem. Seems intermittent, and yes, restart of phone only workaround so far. Only my rear camera, only in photo mode (not video), if working entire thing is still super laggy. (Take a photo, no evidence of said photo in app and then an hour later suddenly they show up as if it had worked all along.). Have been on a diagnostics call w. Apple--no problems w. hardware or storage availability, entirely a software glitch. Am also having some of the ghost typing (extra letters appearing) but only in one specific app. In short, iOS 18 shouldn't have gone out to public (and without the ability to downgrade back either. woof.)

Few notes to add : the problem recurs after a reboot after 1 or 2 days ( not sure what triggers it ) when it crashes , seems to blow up Bluetooth / music / other stuff and causes phone to be laggy for minutes afterwards - also noticed that after the crash - the OS thinks the camera is still on ( shows the amber dot indicator for camera forever until you reboot ) - I have shared diags ans logs with Apple who think not a hardware issue and engineering teams are investigating - I expect there will be a patch soon enough.

Same situation for me - it was an upgrade from a IPHONE 13 Pro max and restored from backup . All the same symptoms as described by others - camera crash on launch / it also takes out Bluetooth and other stuff. I have reported to Apple and sent various logs , they offered a new handset but this is clearly a software problem. Not fixed by 18.01 . No feedback from their engineers on a fix.

I have the same problem - new IPHONE 16 Pro max - latest IOS 18 installed and nothing else running - launch camera and after 2 or 3 seconds the app crashes . Have reported to Apple who offered a replacement immediately . I suspect I is not a hardware issue though . Restart of phone fixes it temporarily - pretty serious bug

Same problem for me. Only fix at moment appears to be a reboot of the phone which to me points towards a software issue rather than a hardware issue. Hope Apple get a patch out soon