What causes the black screen in camera after iOS 16 update?

I've heard a lot of people are having a black screen in the camera App after the IOS 16 Update and I'm one of them. Is there already a fix for this, because it's been almost a month and now you can't even downgrade to IOS 15. Is Apple even aware of this problem?


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iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Oct 3, 2022 8:25 AM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2024 10:57 AM

I have an iPhone XR which demonstrated the "black screen" rear camera (but the front camera still worked). First I had the rear camera replaced at a local independent repair house. That fixed the camera but only for a day. Then I updated from IOS 16 to 17 last night and did not test the rear camera again until today. To my horror, the rear camera had gone back to the "black screen" rear camera. I tried some of the solutions in this thread. Nothing worked until I did a "force restart" by pressing/releasing the side buttons of the phone as described in Force restart iPhone - Apple Support. At the moment the rear camera is functioning again!


  1. Press and quickly release the volume up button.
  2. Press and quickly release the volume down button.
  3. Press and hold the side button.
  4. When the Apple logo appears, release the side button.


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Sep 10, 2024 8:44 AM in response to Dorden122

Apparently on my iPhone 7Plus, my camera app suddenly stopped working and it only shows black screen when I opened up the Camera app and I can’t take pictures, but the selfie camera works for me only, I tried to fix it by freeing up storage and memories and I updated my software to iOS 16.6 (The maximum of the software version), but still, it never works, and my flashlight is also not working

Oct 20, 2024 6:22 PM in response to swastik194

My phone 16 is 3 weeks old and the camera doesn’t work, it also turns off and on by itself but I can’t force it to restart. Please don’t anyone ask about updating because this happened to my husband’s SE and they told him to update it and it never worked again. $1300.00 for 20 days seems to be a highway robbery 😡

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