Ways to Fix Black Camera Screen on iPhones

There are several problems that you can encounter when using an iPhone. One of the problems is the black camera screen on your iPhones. iPhone are one of the phones with a very sharp and good camera. When your iPhone start showing black camera screen, it is always frustrating and annoying. Below is how you can fix the black camera screen on your iPhones.

iPhone has several great features such as taking picture of high quality (portrait), recording a high-quality video and also recording. Despite all these great features, your iPhone might still be showing a black screen while trying to take pictures and video.

Below is why and how to fix your iPhone showing a black screen.

Why my iPhone camera screen is black

Your iPhone camera screen might be black due to several other reasons. Some of the reasons are:

Something might have blocked the camera face, such as the phone pouch, your hand, an object put behind your phone (between your phone and pouch) etc.
It might also be that something is causing the Camera app to glitch.
It might happen that your iPhone features are interfering with its operation, or even it does not load properly etc.

How to Fix iPhone black camera screen

Apart from removing something that is blocking your phone camera. Below are several other solutions to your iPhone showing black screen and continue enjoying your iPhone camera. Below is how you can fix the black camera screen on your iPhones.

Try switching between the Back and Front Camera

Changing from the back to the front camera, and later switch to the back camera might correct the iPhone camera. Below is how to go about the switching:

Launch the Camera app.
Then tap on “Camera Switcher” at the bottom right corner of the screen.
Just wait for some seconds.
Then tap again on the “Camera Switcher” to see if the camera is now working perfectly.

Try Restarting the Camera App

If the black screen still keeps showing after switching the camera, probably restarting the Camera app might fix the issue for you.

From your Home button, double tap it to bring up the App Switcher. If not, swipe up from the bottom of the screen, try to hold your finger when it reaches the middle and then release it immediately when the App Switcher shows up.
Swipe it up to close the Camera App.
Try and wait for some seconds.
Lunch the Camera app again. This will automatically get it back to work.

Restarting your iPhone

If after restarting your Camera app doesn’t fix the black camera issue you have, then try restarting your iPhone.

Hold down the “Power button” and any of the volume buttons if you are using iPhone X or newer version of iPhone. And if you are a user of iPhone 8 or earlier versions, try to hold down the “Power button” until the “slide to power off” is displayed.
Slide it to the right, to power off your iPhone.
After that, wait a few seconds.
And finally, hold down the “Power Button” again until the Apple logo is displayed on the screen.

Turning off the VoiceOver feature

Most of the people do experience camera glitch while their VoiceOver is enabled on their iPhone. The solution to this is to shut down or disable the VoiceOver and try using the Camera app again.

Launch the Settings app.
Tap on the “Accessibility” option.
Then tap on “VoiceOver.
Turning off the VoiceOver will display a gray background, otherwise it will display a green background. Therefore, turn off the VoiceOver.

Update your iPhone

Updating your iPhone iOS to the latest version is also one of the ways to fix your iPhone camera displaying black.

Launch the Settings app.
Tap the “General” option.
Then tap on “Software Update”.
If there is an update available, tap on the “Download and Install” option.

Reset your iPhone

In case you have no update on your iPhone, then try to reset your iPhone.

Launch the “Settings App”
The tap on “General”.
Tap on “Transfer or Reset iPhone”.
After that, tap on “Reset” option.
Tap “Reset All Settings” option in the pop-up menu.
From here, enter your Passcode.
Finally, confirm that you want to go on with resetting by tapping on the “Reset All Settings”.