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> The article confirms that this was due to a bug in iOS and is not Instagram's fault.

Where does it do that? As far as I can tell, Instagram is calling the camera APIs when it doesn't need to and iOS is flagging that as it should.

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>“We only access your camera when you tell us to — for example, when you swipe from Feed to Camera. We found and are fixing a bug in iOS 14 Beta that mistakenly indicates that some people are using the camera when they aren’t,” the spokesperson said. “We do not access your camera in those instances, and no content is recorded.”

FWIW, I read that as

> We found and are fixing a bug in [the instagram app for] iOS 14 Beta

That interpretation would indicate that they - Instagram - are fixing an iOS 14 bug, which is pretty unlikely to be the case.

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