Rear camera stopped working after upgrade to iOS 9

Same problem here with my iPhone 5S.

Camera was working fine until I upgraded to iOS 9. Getting the ⚠️ overheating warning as well.

Apple say it's a hardware failure, but I can't believe all our cameras failed at the same time.

In the past, I've always been impressed by Apple's customer service, but not anymore. 😟

Thanks for the info. Maybe I'll try the same thing, as it seems that Apple doesn't care about fixing this issue. I better not say anything more, as my previous post was removed. I DO appreciate all the posts & ideas. I'll try anything to fix this issue, as my iPhone 6 Plus is less than 6 months old (I didn't put insurance on it, because I always take great care of my phones).

Iphone 4s - iOS 9.1:

Rear camera tries one focus but remains black. All buttons are active.

WhenI 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.

Any restarts, reboots, deleting of new apps, power saving on/off did not work

iPhone 5S with March 2016 left on the contract.

So this flaw is now into it's third month of not being acknowledged or fixed by Apple?

No wonder they're loosing market share to Android and Windows phones. I've been a die hard iPhone fan since the first one came out; but I need the camera more than I need a broken Apple product. 😟

Hoping for a fix soon!!!!!!!!

iPhone5 same Problem. this is not a Hardware defekt dear Apple Team. This is a big Software fault. i bring the cam now 4 times to work, but only for about 5 hours. After that the same Message !!!! Please do something, it can not be that you kill a Phone with your IOS9 only to sell new IPhone 6S !!!!!

I Had this problem with my camera on iPhone 4s after downloading ios9.1. Your solution worked thank you!! Now can you tell me how to speed up my vv slow internet on the phone? Also having problems with emails not downloading content.

SMcd

But the Solution from Polly_H only work until you restart your iPhone. After that the same Message come again with the Flash Needs to cool. Now i can make every Trick and nothing work's. It's bad that Appel dont give a Feedback whats up now, what will they do?

This my first time commenting on an Apple forum. I'm extremely disapointed with Apple lately. They used to be a company I strongly beleived in and supported because of my experiences with they way they used to handle these types of sitautions. I feel like Apple used to really go out if it's way to help people and keep people using its products. That feeling is now gone.

Suffice to say, same problem, but slightly different. Neither my front or back camera is working after upgrading to IOS 9.

But wait, here's where it gets weird.

The camera doesn't work for stills, but it does work for video. It does work for pano as well. Instagram does not work. However, I do some dog walking and there's an option to take photo's on that app and still photo's DO work on there. I simply wish I could downgrade to IOS because frankly nothing about 9 appears beneficial and I strongly disagree the new layout for music and podcasts (which was already pretty awful.)

There's may be 100 people commenting, but I'd guess less than 10% of the people with this problem are going to comment.

Received the same overheating issue, iPhone 5S. At the moment trying Polly_h steps, hope it will restore camera functionality. Anyway, it's very sad if Apple official guys say that it's hardware issue. Hope this thread will draw Apple attention to this problem.

Hi.. I have the same issue with my new iphone 6s plus, I not sure if it is new update or what....when I try to take a pics it will go into a blurry stage and then freezes up and have to slide it off and try several times b4 it will works again.. I try switching back forth front rear camera it still does it.. I did a re set still does it.. I trying to see what apple will do when I take it to the store.. hope everyone find out what up with this issue.. plus my battery over heating too. I have iphone 4 never experience any issues...like this one... good luck everyone..

I tried everything listed on this discussion, and on other pages. I tried the voice over switch, the low power mode switch, restarting my phone, flipping my rear and front camera repeatedly and then restarting my phone, etc. None of these methods worked for me! My back camera still shows a black screen. my front camera works, but when i switch to the rear facing again, it freezes the last view taken in by the front camera, and gives me the yellow " ! " sign, saying that my flash is disabled and that my phone has to cool down before it is enabled again. I have an iPhone 5S running iOS 9.1.

I'm really disappointed in Apple! The problem won't go away if they just ignore it! Tens of thousands of people are having this exact problem, and they refuse to try to fix it. I'm just praying that iOS 9.2 will fix this problem! Did anyone download the beta version of it and find out if it is fixed yet?

I have same problem. I upgrade to 9.1 and camera went black now. Only differences flash seems to be not impacted.

Actually i saw some strange behaviour just before upgrading to 9.1, I wonder if anybody has that before the camera dies. My home button stop working for one click. but it was not hw related, double click was working and even when i enable accessibility assistance, i wasn't able see home screen with one click. So I decide to upgrade to 9.1. then, camera dies just like many others.

Please fix this ASAP!!! I'm having the same issues of the rear camara not working and recieving the yellow warning telling me that my flash can't work because my phone is over heating. I've tried everything. I would really like to use my phone to function properly. These phones are too expensive for this.

i have an even better one. Since buying my iPhone 6s Plus I have been unable to take video. A bug in iCloud is stalling uploads and videos are not appearing white box appears where the video thumbnails should be when I try to take a video in either 4K or 60fps mode. I have been able to get the odd video working in 30fps mode but not very often. Bizarre

I have found a solution .. After buying every generation of iPhone since the launch as well as untold amounts of extras as well as the odd iMac . I have learnt that the reason for me buying apple products is for support and service witch in this case as been more than disappointing .. So back to my solution dare I say the dreaded word Samsung .. I will look forward to seeing if my post is deleted by the powers that be just to see if they are reading any of these posts " from there customers "