Rear camera stopped working after upgrade to iOS 9

I fear that the only resolution would be a class action lawsuit. Lawyers are notorious for seeing only dollar signs and not caring about justice. Unless a lawyer somewhere sees a huge profit for himself or a chance to make a big name for himself we're all probably up that proverbial creek and the only one with paddles for sale is Apple. Apple does indeed have a Facebook page and I posted about the camera problems but I doubt I will get any kind of response from them. A consumer advocate from a local TV news station could wield a lot of clout if someone could rouse their interest. Sadly the only one we have in Philadelphia is a man named Jim Donovan and I know from experience that he is absolutely worthless when the chips are down. Maybe a large viewing audience in a location like Los Angeles could give us a boost?

Apple sells paddles? The iPaddle that'll be then, right?

Do you have the URL for the Apple FB page? If you could post that - everyone needs to jump in and post details of the problem. The more the merrier. What about Twitter? Companies seem to respond to Tweets. Although God knows why.

Lawyers on this? Hmmmmm.....

As wegandstudios says in his post - a couple above this one - why has the media not picked up on this? Is it such a small problem? Almost 14000 views of this page. Either there are a lot of people affected - or a couple of us really need to find more to do with life. But i have seen nothing about it in the press. We need to change that.

Anyone got a connection with one of the technical newsletters that concentrate on Apple?

Yep...I missed the cutoff point for replacing my dodgy mid-2010 macbook pro (graphics card nightmare) its then I started realising the above. Since then I notice more and more...they ignore anyone who doesn't have latest version of their products. More and more disappointment. PS Same issue as the rest of you all.

Sadly most of my influence falls into the realm of PC performance and gaming. Apple's Facebook page is hard to find unless you search for 'Apple Inc'.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/wheres-apples-facebook-page/

Actual facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Apple-Inc/105596369475033

I Wrote about half an hour ago on the facebook Apple page(it comes second when you search for Apple on Facebook,just under Apple Inc).Guess what:my comment,totally decent but focused on the matter that concerns all of us,is gone!No sign of it!It was there half an hour ago and now is gone.That's how they solve this problem

I think i can,but what for?It's crystal clear that there can't be upset customers,just happy ones!They quickly erased the comment,along with some other user complaint about podcasts or something like that.I'll try to post also on the Apple INc page,maybe we'll be more users there to draw attention on this matter.

I just posted on Apple Inc,as a comment on an Ios 9 photo,i think is the one you were reffering to.Maybe if there are more comments,they'll do something about it!The previous post of mine,which was erased,it was on another fb page,not on the one that you wrote on.

My post is at the top as George S. I think I just gave you a 'Like' along with some other posts. We should start a pool to see how long it takes them to delete our posts. The winner gets a broken iPhone 5! LOL

Yes,you did.Now,we wait for others to write there.Maybe,if more will post,apple will try to fix this in a future update,even if they'll not officialy recognize the problem.That if it's possible to be fixed by an update..It would be sad if they won't delete our posts,that means that they don't give a ..:)))).

I got this same email: http://osxdaily.com/2014/06/22/iphone-camera-not-working-press-fix/

I'm glad if it works for the rest of you but that's not the camera I am having problems with. The confusion for me lies in the designation of front facing and rear facing cameras. I fear the only solution to my problem is to replace the unit even though it did work flawlessly before updating my firmware. I have never used it to take a 'selfie' so I know that looking at my face didn't break it, lol. I am getting up in my years and taking a 'selfie' might be on my bucket list so I would like my camera to work again and I know it's nothing that I did that broke it.

Same issue here on 5s - was working until about a week ago - then camera started being blurry and then failed altogether - restored - tried low power toggle, tried light pressing. Same issue on 9.0.* and 9.1

Interesting - and thanks for posting that. I was googling the same thing myself over the weekend.

I'm sure you are right in that some of the instances must be the camera breaking down. But even for the millions of iPhones sold, it has to be an incredible coincidence that so many are reporting problems around the time of the iOS9x.x. possible. Perhaps it is statistically possible, but mercy!

Don't forget that there are more than 500 million iPhones on Earth. There are less than 100 commenters in this thread. So this coincidence would have to occur to less than one in 50 million iPhone users, and we would still end up here in this thread communicating with each other.

Normally i'd say that you got a point in your explanation,but i want to point out two things:

1-after my first attempt on bringing the phone back to factory settings,started it as a new iphone,the camera worked again and i took about 5 photos before it went black..i'd say ,if it is a hardware problem,once is broken is broken.

2-i am talking about a less than a month old iphone,so if it is a hardware problem i wonder if spending so much money on apple products worth it.

I have the EXACT same problem on my iPhone 6 Plus. And, when I switch to the rear camera, I get the ⚠️ icon on the top left part of the screen. When I click on it, it tells me that the flash is disabled & that my iPhone needs to cool down before using the flash. I had no problems whatsoever until I did the update. Apple sure is screwing over its loyal customers. I had switched to the Galaxy S5 Active for a few months, but I went back to an iPhone due to the awesome picture quality. Now, I can't even take a freaking picture, and Apple is just turning their back on the problem. Not cool, Apple...NOT COOL!