iPhone 16 Pro Camera loading delay and corrupted photo

Does anyone else have issues with their iphone 16 Pro camera? My camera sometimes takes time to load. I open the camera app and it takes around 5 seconds to start working. It is showing black screen for around 5 seconds. My older iphone 13 pro camera app was ready to use almost immediately after opening the app. Then yesterday I took a photo and later I realized the photo was just a black screen. I then tried to zoom in and I realized the photo file was partially corrupted... Attached you can see the photo partially exists but half of it is black screen. The camera otherwise works fine and I take photos without issues, but just this one photo was corrupted, which shows it is a software issue. Does apple intend to fix this with an update? Certainly hope so because I am fed up calling apple to complain about their software bugs and other issues...




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iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 23, 2024 7:05 AM

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Posted on Jan 6, 2025 12:38 AM

Yes definitely, camera stays black for 5-10 seconds while the flash also takes a while depending on how recently it’s been used previously.

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Jan 14, 2025 6:18 AM in response to MichalisPraha

The problems continue… now after the latest update to 18.2.1 I see another issue: I open the camera and press the shutter (either on the screen or the camera control button) and the phone waits 3-4 seconds until it finally shoots the picture... It is not acceptable for a phone that expensive to have such a delay !!! Is it a processor lag? Is it a bug? iPhones are becoming more and more useless!

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Feb 7, 2025 5:59 PM in response to MichalisPraha

Found a fix thanks to some people on Reddit (was really annoying me too);


It’s a bug due to game mode. If you launch every single game you have and turn off game mode on every single one that seems to fix the problem


Hoping for a proper patch cause I do kinda like game mode but this camera issue is way more irritating.

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Jan 20, 2025 3:54 PM in response to MichalisPraha

I got this phone in Dec, it delays when you open camera to just black screen about 5-10 seconds and my older 13 pro max is faster.. I spoke to apple support, asked me to turn off background app refresh, reduce motion, I have turned off reduce motion did not make any difference and why must I turn off background app refresh whereas my 13 pro max don’t need to?

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iPhone 16 Pro Camera loading delay and corrupted photo

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