[arachnid92]

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?

[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?

[saagarjha]

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

[SoftTalker]

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

[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.

[supermatt]

> 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]

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.

[fnoff]

I swipe down to see the notifications/lock screen, then right to access the camera.

[snorbleck]

> 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.

[kgen]

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