iOS 26.1 update broke app permissions — Camera, Tracking, and other privacy settings missing

To the OP and All this Affected:



“iOS 26.1 update broke app permissions — Camera, Tracking, and other privacy settings missing: I have an iPhone 14 and updated to iOS 26.1 and now several apps (Snapchat, Tumblr, etc.) can’t function because iOS no longer shows the permissions they need. […]Nothing worked. It seems like the permissions database is corrupted after the 26.1 update and iOS isn’t rebuilding it.”

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Report this to Apple:

Apple won't get back to you directly, but the more they hear of this, the more they'll know what to fix. This seems to be catching on. So, provide your feedback. Apple will know thing of you occurrence if you don’t report it to them.

1. Go Here: Feedback - macOS - Apple
2. Select: "Bug Report" for the "Feature Type"
3. Select: "Applications/Utilities" for the "Feedback Area"
4. Comment: that this all started after installing an update. Provide the URL of this thread.
5. Proceed from there as Necessary

Same issue. Calendar just asked for Location permission again. It’s not even showing in settings after granting it. Not sure what setting is really active now.

Its not necessarily the update 26(.1) itself that breaks it, I have updated a while ago and issues started only a couple of days ago. Glad(?) to see I’m not the only one.

This seems to also affect my Watch. Apps actually get deleted for some reason, sometimes reinstall themselves eventually/on clicking the Widget that’s still there (sometimes at least). They too asked for permission after opening them again but it’s not shown in Settings. E.g. I granted permission now both on Watch and Phone for Calendar but don’t see it in settings.

So far this happened with Weather and Calendar, both asking for Location permission. Weather asked multiple times that day.

Same here. All apps lost all their permissions, and the option to switch it back on is not even there in the settings. iOS 26.1, iPhone 16. Note: was very low on iPhone storage.

I had the same problem. Try and turn your phone all the way off. It worked for me