Rear camera stopped working after upgrade to iOS 9

Apologies for the slightly slow reply - I'm travelling at the moment.

I can't now found the contact email I used. But to be honest, I think it was a pretty futile avenue away; one of those sites where you can type in your comments and whilst they may be read, no one will reply.

As I say I'm travelling at the moment so can't really follow this up. But I will when I get back. I'm not done with this yet. If it was just me I'd say, sort of, fair enough, hardware failure. But just how many people has this happened to? If it is hardware failure it must be heading to the Guiness Book of Records for The Greatest Number of Coincidences....

I'm not a FB user but does Apple have a page - must do right? Maybe we can get lots of people to post something on the FB page or Twitter account. Just how many people are impacted by this? Given over 10,000 people have viewed these pages, I'm suspecting it's more than a handful.

Since my post from 5 October. I have tried every "solution" in this topic and still the camera doesn't work.

Its sad to see that we are unable to downgrade back to iOS8 cause Apple has stopped signing iOS 8.4.1. I truly believe the camera stopped working because of an upgrade. As many others in this topic have the same issue.

I just discovered I have camera problems with my iPhone 5. Everything was fine before the firmware update. My main camera works but not the one facing me. I've been trying all of the suggestion but nothing has worked yet.

Thanks for the heads up, i guess there not much point in updating my Iphone 5s if it does not solve the rear-facing camera issues. Still contacting apple support for any resolution to this problem, but regretfully still no concrete action taken to resolve it. Has anyone had any success with this problem?

No, thanks for the idea though. Sadly, didn't work for me....

The fact that such weird and wonderful fixes do work for some people casts a curious light on Apple's comment (to me at least) that it is a hardware failure.

Did anyone who had this issue with the iOS8 upgrades find it resolved with iOS9 or later upgrades to iOS8?

And Apple, iOS 9 has claimed another victim ... I am frying eggs on the back of my 5S since the update and my flash is intermittent with the same error as others on this thread. Please fix what you broke. thanks.

I Upgraded to ios 9.0.2 when it came out and a little while agter my canera and flash stopped working. So i tried doing a full restore erase all content an settings. And that didnt work either. Now this morning i upgraded to ios 9.1 and that update didnt help my camera/flashlight issue?

When I switch the camera direction to face me I just get the last frozen image of whatever the main camera saw before I flipped it. Sometimes if I try changing the format from Photo to Square, the image will rotate 90° so I'm baffled. Maybe that will help someone at Apple to get a clue as to what is going on with our cameras.

There must have been a whole lot of cameras on the brink of failure when the iOS 9 update was released. I will know if the firmware update caused a voltage spike or whatever after I get the new camera in a week or so. I'll probably break something else in the process though. I'm just lucky like that.

Interesting concept about the new iPhone using the screen as the flash. Installing that onto an older iPhone could certainly explain why a lot of our cameras and flashes stopped working all of a sudden.

Same issue rear camera and flashlight not working after updates 9.x.x. I am very dissapointed about this problem. Almost 14000 views this topic only for 30 days this looks like a big problem. My 5s looks like at new device but now is just garbage😢😟

Join the club...i also tried everything,sadly my wife's iphone 5 camera is dead.The annoing part is that her phone is only one month old,switched by warranty at local dealer..So,in this case,a hardware issue is hard to believe.i currently use ios 9.0.1 on my iphone 6 and i am really afraid of updating..I'm in for a collective complaint,we just have to figure out how to do it.

Totally agree on the collective complaint.

Does Apple run a Facebook or Twitter account? I'm sure they must ( but I don't use either!). If they do, we should get the people who have the problem to write about it on both sites,

I've seen nothing about this issue in any of the usual Apple RSS-type newsletters. Has anyone else? We do need to get some discussion of this problem going beyond these pages - do Apple read them?

I have always had success using the Better Business Bureau and have won awards from some of the giants like Dell, Verizon and even AT&T but since most of our devices are out of warranty I fear that our complaints would fall on deaf ears.

Why isnt the press writing about it? Maybe somebody needs to tell them that there is something like this going on to increase the pressure on Apple, so they would finally do something, My wife has an iPhone 6 and i will not update it to ios 9 unless this problems is solved, its out of warranty. I also was thinking and of updating it but recording it on video to make sure how the camera works before and doesn't after.