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holy shit people it's not a bug it's done because camera initialisation is slow as fuck, they will keep doing it

funny however how the hn crowd downvotes a post with sourced factual information they somehow manage to disagree with

You were probably downvoted for using the F word, but outside of that that, I tend to agree that camera init is slow AF.

In fact, by playing privacy-advocate games, Apple is inevitably punishing every app except their own because while they will show "This app is using your camera," I wonder if the same rules apply to their own camera usage.

We will know soon.

Camera shows the indicator just like every other app.

Does it? I am yet to update to the new iOS because too many things break with early releases, and I've gotten tired of broken releases. But right now I can swipe my phone to the left, and get a sub-second access to my camera. There's no way it's not pre-loaded for this to work so fast.

My question is whether developers, who are not Apple, would be able to load the camera with the same speed that Apple. Does iOS load Camera in the same way that Apps do, or does iOS have access to lower-level API?

I don't have the answer, but I'd be curious to know if someone's got the know-how.

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