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I couldn’t get it to trigger until I opened the camera app and made sure to switch to the front facing camera before exiting. After doing that I was able to con

I couldn’t get it to trigger until I opened the camera app and made sure to switch to the front facing camera before exiting. After doing that I was able to consistently trigger the indicator when swiping across and long-pressing the icon. EDIT: it also only seems to happen if the camera icon is on one of your Home Screen pages. I haven’t been able to reproduce the behavior when swiping across the icon while in the App Library. Wonder why they decided to do it that way? Do most people keep a camera icon on their Home Screen? That would be baffling to me. Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen or by using the physical camera button on newer iPhones?

supermatt 9mo ago
> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Because if using the phone then you need to access the lock screen to use the camera? That means hitting the power button twice (slowly so you don’t trigger the wallet) and then a long press on the camera. Alternatively it’s just a swipe and a tap if it’s on the home screen.
- arachnid92 9mo ago
  Fair enough, but then I can think of an even better place to put the icon: the control center that is a single swipe away from any screen in the OS. This is all moot in newer iPhones tho, as the physical camera button in the lower right is the easiest and fastest way to get to the camera. Anyhow, this is all just personal preference, of course. Anyone is free to put a camera icon anywhere they please. I just personally can’t stand clutter in my home or lock screens, so I tend to keep the number of apps there to a minimum and access everything else either via Spotlight or Control Center widgets.
  - supermatt 9mo ago
    Yeah, control centre also works, but that requires using 2 hands to do comfortably.
- fnoff 9mo ago
  I swipe down to see the notifications/lock screen, then right to access the camera.
  - supermatt 9mo ago
    sure, but with typical one-handed operation you cant reach the top of the screen to swipe down.
BugsJustFindMe 9mo ago
> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Half the time since updating to iOS 26 on my 13 mini, if I try to activate the camera from the lock screen the app opens but the camera fails to start and the view just stays black, and then I have to exit and try again. It's quite annoying. This does not happen with the camera app after unlocking the phone.
- DHPersonal 9mo ago
  Do you also have the slow-motion bug where every second or so a frame or two gets dropped, resulting in stutters in the video?
  - BugsJustFindMe 9mo ago
    Hmm, I don't think so, but I do get the awful indoor lighting flicker when shooting slow-mo at 240fps that completely ruins indoor videos, and it really seems like Apple could just fix that if they cared at all.
    - snailmailman 9mo ago
      I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering. The lights are the issue not the camera. Rooms with these lights give me migraines. I can always tell when lights in a room are like that, and I use the 240hz slow motion on my phone to double check or figure out which specific lights are the issue. I hate these lights and I don’t understand why places use them.
      - swiftcoder 9mo ago
        > I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering They are, but the camera stack should be detecting and compensating for that - it's pretty easy to detect, since it should be a fixed 50/60Hz depending on geographic location. You typically have to implement this filtering on all manner of light sensors.
kgen 9mo ago
Because it's on the homescreen in the default layout and a large number of people don't change their defaults?
snorbleck 9mo ago
> Do most people keep a camera icon on their Home Screen? That would be baffling to me. probably. it is a TikTok world after all. or, pretty sure it's on the home screen by default and no one probably bothers to move it.

supermatt 9mo ago

> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Because if using the phone then you need to access the lock screen to use the camera? That means hitting the power button twice (slowly so you don’t trigger the wallet) and then a long press on the camera. Alternatively it’s just a swipe and a tap if it’s on the home screen.

arachnid92 9mo ago
Fair enough, but then I can think of an even better place to put the icon: the control center that is a single swipe away from any screen in the OS. This is all moot in newer iPhones tho, as the physical camera button in the lower right is the easiest and fastest way to get to the camera. Anyhow, this is all just personal preference, of course. Anyone is free to put a camera icon anywhere they please. I just personally can’t stand clutter in my home or lock screens, so I tend to keep the number of apps there to a minimum and access everything else either via Spotlight or Control Center widgets.
- supermatt 9mo ago
  Yeah, control centre also works, but that requires using 2 hands to do comfortably.
fnoff 9mo ago
I swipe down to see the notifications/lock screen, then right to access the camera.
- supermatt 9mo ago
  sure, but with typical one-handed operation you cant reach the top of the screen to swipe down.

BugsJustFindMe 9mo ago

> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Half the time since updating to iOS 26 on my 13 mini, if I try to activate the camera from the lock screen the app opens but the camera fails to start and the view just stays black, and then I have to exit and try again. It's quite annoying. This does not happen with the camera app after unlocking the phone.

DHPersonal 9mo ago
Do you also have the slow-motion bug where every second or so a frame or two gets dropped, resulting in stutters in the video?
- BugsJustFindMe 9mo ago
  Hmm, I don't think so, but I do get the awful indoor lighting flicker when shooting slow-mo at 240fps that completely ruins indoor videos, and it really seems like Apple could just fix that if they cared at all.
  - snailmailman 9mo ago
    I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering. The lights are the issue not the camera. Rooms with these lights give me migraines. I can always tell when lights in a room are like that, and I use the 240hz slow motion on my phone to double check or figure out which specific lights are the issue. I hate these lights and I don’t understand why places use them.
    - swiftcoder 9mo ago
      > I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering They are, but the camera stack should be detecting and compensating for that - it's pretty easy to detect, since it should be a fixed 50/60Hz depending on geographic location. You typically have to implement this filtering on all manner of light sensors.

kgen 9mo ago

Because it's on the homescreen in the default layout and a large number of people don't change their defaults?

snorbleck 9mo ago

> Do most people keep a camera icon on their Home Screen? That would be baffling to me. probably. it is a TikTok world after all. or, pretty sure it's on the home screen by default and no one probably bothers to move it.