iPhone camera app keeps crashing after iOS 18 Update

I found a solution with the help of the Apple support representative. The culprit is the metal stand on my iPhone case the metal part interferes with the phone after removing the metal the case and resetting the phone. The phone was operational again close the Camera app multiple times and open itwith no more crashing or freezing problem solved.

I think there should be some camera hardware unstable/failure and iOS 18 is not handled it correctly.

My camera app returned to normal after I updated to 18.0.1 since my last post, I thought it was fixed by the new update, but few weeks later I drop my iPhone to the floor the camera start to freeze again, and it would totally freeze when I switch to 0.5 ultrawide camera. I tried to use 3rd party camara app it cannot use the 0.5 ultrawide wide lens, I think now it is totally broken and iOS has nothing to do with it.

You can use a third party app to test if the lenses are functional, e.g. Doule Take can switch each of those lenses, if they are working well then it maybe the software bugs, or maybe something wrong with your camera hardware.

Same here, 12mini and flashlight with rear camera isn’t working, the front camera works only sometimes. That’s bs, they’re clearly doing it to make you go for a new one! Well, I will go… for an Android!

I feel the same issues plague all vendors with initial major releases, especially after reviewing corporate security buying programs and seeing issues from that stance across multiple large deployments - but the camera issue has been resolved now in 18.1 and I am sure some happy iPhone user will appreciate your hand-me-down or used phone for many more years ^^.

As for being an issue to force upgrades - I know it wasn't that at least since if you read through the thread the issue impacted the latest iPhone 16 Pro as well.

I updated my 13 pro phone with updates : iOS 18.0.1 . in october 2024. 

And since then my phone camera is not working properly, it hangs and shows black screen output, or sometimes it starts in slow motion.

but i just want to know that my phone is working well, before update, i updates my phone twice , and your updates showing bugs for  camera is not working,

I updated it again, it worked only one time and again it went down,

My phone camera stopped after your update to iOS 18.0.1 .  

How is it possible? 

I visited your service centre. They checked my phone and says your phone is out of warranty and now you have to pay approx 20.0000 thousands indian rupees, 

why should I pay unnecessary,??

it's because of your updates (full of bugs in it).

plz help me in this. 

Magnetic accessories might interfere with iPhone cameras - Apple Support

My keyboard has had the same issues! iOS 18 didn’t solve it and now my camera glitches exactly as described! I’m so frustrated!!

Did a restart, seems to be working for some time now.

This happens routinely when I am on a call (phone or signal) on Ios 18 on an iPhone 16 pro as well. I think it's not limited to a specific phone model.

My real camera problem not working

Me too. iPhone 15 pro max, camera app crashing constantly. Hard restart only fixes the issue for a while before it randomly starts crasing again.

My 12 pro camera is blinking since I update it to iOS 18.0

It’s been a 1 month. Still facing the same problem.

This issue disappeared when I upgraded to 18.1 - I suggest you all do that since the issue has been closed - anything still coming up again may require a fresh install but I am happy at least.

I have the same issue but there is no help from Apple.

They have bugs in there 18.1.0 updates.