Q: Rear camera stopped working after upgrade to iOS 9

Wow, I didn't know that!  I had the option of adding insurance, but Sprint didnt tell me I automatically had Apple Care.  Thank u so much for the info! 

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!!!!!!!!

I did the squeeze on the front and back of the camera and it is working again. Of note: My "flashlight" never stopped working the rest of the symptoms were similar.

I have these problems too! Apple!!!

I have iPhone 5 and I've experienced exactly the same 'hardware' issue. I am writing to share my experience an explain how i manage to fix it. Thank everyone for the good explanations. My camera stopped working - black screen, in an hour the flash stopped working too, showing it's overheated and needs to cool down.

What i did:

1. Restarting several times - no effect.

2. Recovery mode then back up with iTunes - no effect.

3. Toggling low power mode then restart - no effect.

4. Switching front and back camera for like 20-30 times then turn the phone off for 15 mins and then turned it on again.

Now my camera is working again, the flashlight too.

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 !!!!!

Thank you from Russia! It really helped me.

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.

Apple needs to address the issue at the erliest, this is a software glitch, I m waiting for the IOS9.2 to solve the problem,

So Polly_H solution worked, but only for two minutes after rebooting device... @igkhatri, are you sure that this bug will be fixed in next iOS update?

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..