[BugsJustFindMe]

> 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]

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]

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]

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.

[BugsJustFindMe]

> I’m pretty sure that’s because the lights are actually flickering.

I didn't say it wasn't. I said I bet that Apple, the company that can zero-shot high resolution synthetic 3D views from flat photos, could make the flicker not show in the video if they tried so that slow motion videos shot indoors aren't completely ruined by AC flicker.

[swiftcoder]

> 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.

[dagmx]

It’s not just about matching the frequency but also the phase.

This is easier when your lights are all in phase and also in a single frequency, but you might also have bulbs that are at different frequencies (120 vs 60) or electric hookups that go out of phase.

It’s a very tricky problem to solve and to the best of my knowledge, nobody truly has. Film lights do clever and expensive tricks to match phase but that’s not feasible in a domestic setup.

[withinboredom]

Um. 240 is a multiple of 60.

[isoprophlex]

Yes, so you either get a strobe on/strobe off every two frames if you're in 60 Hz country, or a slower crawling flicker in 50 Hz land. Migraine-inducing either way. Also, your phone won't shutter at exactly 60.00/50.00 Hz (mains freq. is pretty stable, usually stable to at least the first decimal) so you'll see a jittered, jumpy phase drift on top of that.

[saagarjha]

Mine does this too. I wonder if it’s exclusively an iPhone 13 mini thing because I don’t understand how it shipped.

[niij]

There are so many bugs in iOS 26 I've personally experienced. I'd believe anything at this point.

I keep opening my phone "favorites" section and it erroneously reports no favorites. They either eventually load after seconds+ or I have to force close to get them to show.

[SoftTalker]

In don't understand accessing anything from the lock screen. It's locked, nothing should operate.

[azinman2]

It’s a special mode called secure access. You cannot actually access any existing data from it; but taking camera photos is a primary action that people use their phones for. Why wouldn’t you want to accelerate that?

[SoftTalker]

I suppose. I rarely take photos with my phone. It's really one of the least used features of the device for me. When I activate the camera from the lock screen it's always unintentional and it's an annoyance. It would be nice to at least have the option to disable that.

Edit: I discovered that in iOS 26 you can disable the "swipe" activation of the camera on the lock screen. I've done that and it should remove one of my major annoyances with the phone.

[gruez]

Not to mention with this feature, I don't have to hand an unlocked phone to a stranger if I want a photo taken.

[drawfloat]

I have this in iOS 16 so it’s not new (and not fixed it sounds like) sadly.

[ComputerGuru]

iPhone 13 regular here, same problem. I reported it repeatedly during the iOS 26 betas but they don’t give a damn.