UIImagePickerController Showing Black Preview Screen

Question

I am having a problem when calling the UIImagePickerController to use the camera. Sometimes, but more often than none, the preview screen shows to be black (as the camera itsel

Answer 1

While it could be an issue that depends on many factor, as shown from the successful solutions provided by other members, I think it's worth mentioning the fact that the user might have denied permissions for camera usage (Under Privacy->Camera->Your application) and thus the camera shows, but displays a black preview screen. It just happened to me, and it depended from a bug in the early development stage in which that question was never seen by the user because of overlapping alerts.