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

When you're creating the UIImagePickerController change the cameraOverlayView to nil. It worked like a charm for me.

self.imagePickerController.cameraOverlayView = nil;

And that should be it.