iphone 6s camera lag

Have the same problem for months now, replaced my 6s with 6 plus, but again after connecting it to my iCloud account the camera app is unresponsive for 10 seconds when started.

Another case here. I have 2 suspects. Anyone can confirm if there is a correlation? 1) I do have a icloud full synced back up and usually modify photos from photos osx. 2) I always have live photos on. Considering that live photos is a basic difference between 6 and 6s and as 6s seems to be the only affected maybe this is a clue. Thanks!

Just to confirm that this only happens after sinking the iPhone with iCloud, I'm not using live photo and I don't sync photos with the cloud, so live photo is not the culprit.

Ops...

Stranger then...

Is there a way to reproduce this error? Mine is quite erratic and I can't predict when it will fail...

Ok, i am testing without sing in iCloud account and I 'll tell you what about.

Has someone tested with new IOS 10 beta 1? I am very frustrating with this issue and how apple doesn't do anything to solve it

Any improvement with icloud disabled?

This morning I've had another 10 seconds stuck!!!

Well, I finally give up until ios10 😟

Anyway as someone has posted before I have found a strong correlation between phone calls and this lag.

You can try it. Whatever app you open, then there is no lag if you use camera app later. But if you call inbetween then you are likely to have a lag. Sometimes 1-3 seconds. Sometimes more. It seems that depends on call duration.

Since there are users that barely use cellphone to call it could explan why some people doesn't notice it.

Well, these are my 5 cents.

Hi guys. I've been following this thread for a long time now, since I got my iPhone 6s and right out of the box started with this problem of camera lagging sometimes for 1 to 2 seconds long and sometimes can be hanged up until 8 to 10 seconds. I'm in iOS 9.3.3. Beta 4 and it ain't not get any better between updates. Let's hope for a fix in iOS 10 but there's nothing sure about that.

I'd like to share some impressions around this issue. First, it seems not to be direct relationship to any activity or app with this problem (phone calls, by example, like you posted recently, nothing have to do with this camera misbehavior) It's true that invoking camera from any other app (camera+, Whatsapp, BBM) than native camera, fires it up at once ready to shoot without lagging. I've also noticed that after charging is finished, or right after restart or power clycling the phone, camera starts right away when it is needed without any delay. Every time camera is activated (from lock screen icon or after unlocking) a while after being used without lags, it begins to show blacks screens or showing just what camera lens is pointed to, and after a little freeze it becomes responsive. The longer you take to use camera next time, the longer will the lag be when you try to use it. So, there seems to be a direct relation between how long camera app had been in background and the next time it is invoked to be used.

Sometimes shaking the phone seems to interrupt lagging (when it's longer than 2 or 3 secs). I've have two more iPhone 6s and 6s plus in my family with exactly same problem since were new and nowadays keep acting the same way. It's really annoying and frustrating, camera is one of most important feature of an iPhone and readiness to take pictures is critical to capture precious moments that a lot of times we just missed because of waiting for camera to respond.

This problem is important enough to be a "cameragate" like antenna and battery were in previous iPhone models, but besides this thread there is no other site or forum that takes this matter to discussion, so it seems we are a little cluster of affected users and Apple is looking to the opposite side to not to take care of this one.

Despite we are talking about the same kind of lag (1-2 sec sometimes, up to 10 sec with frozen image) my pattern seems to be different.

At least this is what I am experiencing right now after some changes in my configuration that I made during these days.

Perhaps at the very beggining it was more similar to yours.

To sum up just in case it gives some insight, I can say the opposite. Tested several times:

1) If I unlock play with any app some minutes, then lock and fire camera. No lag ever. Just a less than one sec blur image that I gess is normal.

2) If I do the same but calling, then it appears a slight lag, 2 or 3 seconds.

3) Right now I've tested your scenario. I haven't used camera since 24 hours ago (last charge 14 hours ago). And also no phone calls. So it was a good chance to find out if time was more harmful than calling. The camera activation has been flawless with no lag at all. So in my iphone waiting 24 hours with no camera is irrelevant.

I should insist that I've made some changes and I cannot discard that some of them have had influence. The 2 most important:

1) I've disabled icloud drive. I am still synced with icloud photo library, and icloud config but disabled just that.

2) There is no other app with camera permission. If I need other app to use camera, I just enable it, use it, and disable it.

Anyway I'll pay more attention to the time with no camera vs phone calls to check if my guess is correct or simply hazard.

Hi you all,

Referring here to my posts from feb 15 2016, and april 19 2016. Past week i was out of the country again for couple of days.

However this time i did make some phone calls but had no data on during these calls. And guess what ... not even once did i have the camera lag during my stay. So just the same as during all my other stays out of the country with roaming off.

Got off the plane in Belgium, switched back to normal operation mode, so with data on, made a phone call and.... camera freezed immediately.

So i wonder if - just for testing - we would switch to airplane mode and then open the camera if we would avoid having the lag ?

How long are this lags after a phone call that you experienced?

Mines are now about 2 seconds (after a phone call usually). I guess this should be considered as normal even though there are camera starts that are almost instantaneous.

Since my last configuration (icloud drive off and camera access only allowed for camera app) I haven't seen those 6-10 seconds lag (so far...).

I'll pay attention anyway..

i beleive we're talking of more the 20 secs delay here perhaps more simetimes

i wanna bring this up again as this lag drives me crazy. today, it happened again with a-10-second-delay, freeze, lag whatever called.

we have discussed this a lot in this thread but havent come to any definete conclusion.

Can someone please recommend what to do as in this way, the photo is useless and uncountable when an urgent photo emerges. i paid huge amount for this phone. i love every piece of it except this shiity camera.

ios 10 will help?

This time I have relevant information 🙂 I am now almost sure of the trigger although I don't know how to prevent it.

As you know my primary suspect have been the phone calls. But what I have accidentally found is that there is AN ACCUMULATIVE EFFECT!!! One phone call between camera activation cause a hardly visible lag. But if there are more and more calls the lag gets bigger!

Today I have called more than a dozen of times since my last camera app activation (yesterday).

And guess what? 14 seconds lag!!!!! Which is almost a record.

After this huge clue, I've dialed several times a dummy number (voice mail and general information. Free calls 🙂). I've spent some seconds in each call (10-15 seconds).

After 7 or 8 calls in a row (dial-15 seconds conversation-hang , dial again...), I've click on the camera app and got 6-7 seconds lag!!!

If only I make 1 call, then it is hardly 1-2 seconds lag which could be considered normal or simply hide it.

My iphone is a 6s, 9.3.2. I've disabled FaceTime just in case but still fails. Also I've repeated this procedure (7-8 calls between camera activation) with mobile data disabled and again I got 5-6 seconds lag.

So whatever the reason is, real phone calls (not only ringing, but a conversation) cause some effect to camera app, which turns out to be accumulative.

This could explain that some people hardly notice it, since not too many people calls frequently...

Any other messy iPhone camera lagger could confirm this behaviour? Some people in this thread have already predicted that a clean iphone would have this problem just for calling...

If we confirm this, then it would be easier to show the problem and confirm if disabling other services could help. Solution could be closer!!

I don't have enough time to troubleshoot this very annoying problem right now, but its really making me hate the iPhone. Somehow its related to the phone usage but don't know how exactly, I tried to make a few phone calls this morning whilst the camera was working flawlessly, it leaded to a very short lag time 1 or 2 seconds which i think is normal. I will try to post a video of the problem soon.