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I couldn’t get it to trigger until I opened the camera app and made sure to switch to the front facing camera before exiting. After doing that I was able to con

I couldn’t get it to trigger until I opened the camera app and made sure to switch to the front facing camera before exiting. After doing that I was able to consistently trigger the indicator when swiping across and long-pressing the icon. EDIT: it also only seems to happen if the camera icon is on one of your Home Screen pages. I haven’t been able to reproduce the behavior when swiping across the icon while in the App Library. Wonder why they decided to do it that way? Do most people keep a camera icon on their Home Screen? That would be baffling to me. Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen or by using the physical camera button on newer iPhones?

kgen 9mo ago
Because it's on the homescreen in the default layout and a large number of people don't change their defaults?
snorbleck 9mo ago
> Do most people keep a camera icon on their Home Screen? That would be baffling to me. probably. it is a TikTok world after all. or, pretty sure it's on the home screen by default and no one probably bothers to move it.
supermatt 9mo ago
> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Because if using the phone then you need to access the lock screen to use the camera? That means hitting the power button twice (slowly so you don’t trigger the wallet) and then a long press on the camera. Alternatively it’s just a swipe and a tap if it’s on the home screen.
- arachnid92 9mo ago
  Fair enough, but then I can think of an even better place to put the icon: the control center that is a single swipe away from any screen in the OS. This is all moot in newer iPhones tho, as the physical camera button in the lower right is the easiest and fastest way to get to the camera. Anyhow, this is all just personal preference, of course. Anyone is free to put a camera icon anywhere they please. I just personally can’t stand clutter in my home or lock screens, so I tend to keep the number of apps there to a minimum and access everything else either via Spotlight or Control Center widgets.
  - supermatt 9mo ago
    Yeah, control centre also works, but that requires using 2 hands to do comfortably.
- fnoff 9mo ago
  I swipe down to see the notifications/lock screen, then right to access the camera.
  - supermatt 9mo ago
    sure, but with typical one-handed operation you cant reach the top of the screen to swipe down.
BugsJustFindMe 9mo ago
> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Half the time since updating to iOS 26 on my 13 mini, if I try to activate the camera from the lock screen the app opens but the camera fails to start and the view just stays black, and then I have to exit and try again. It's quite annoying. This does not happen with the camera app after unlocking the phone.
- SoftTalker 9mo ago
  In don't understand accessing anything from the lock screen. It's locked, nothing should operate.
  - azinman2 9mo ago
    It’s a special mode called secure access. You cannot actually access any existing data from it; but taking camera photos is a primary action that people use their phones for. Why wouldn’t you want to accelerate that?
    - gruez 9mo ago
      Not to mention with this feature, I don't have to hand an unlocked phone to a stranger if I want a photo taken.
    - SoftTalker 9mo ago
      I suppose. I rarely take photos with my phone. It's really one of the least used features of the device for me. When I activate the camera from the lock screen it's always unintentional and it's an annoyance. It would be nice to at least have the option to disable that. Edit: I discovered that in iOS 26 you can disable the "swipe" activation of the camera on the lock screen. I've done that and it should remove one of my major annoyances with the phone.
- saagarjha 9mo ago
  Mine does this too. I wonder if it’s exclusively an iPhone 13 mini thing because I don’t understand how it shipped.

kgen 9mo ago

Because it's on the homescreen in the default layout and a large number of people don't change their defaults?

snorbleck 9mo ago

> Do most people keep a camera icon on their Home Screen? That would be baffling to me. probably. it is a TikTok world after all. or, pretty sure it's on the home screen by default and no one probably bothers to move it.

supermatt 9mo ago

> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Because if using the phone then you need to access the lock screen to use the camera? That means hitting the power button twice (slowly so you don’t trigger the wallet) and then a long press on the camera. Alternatively it’s just a swipe and a tap if it’s on the home screen.

arachnid92 9mo ago
Fair enough, but then I can think of an even better place to put the icon: the control center that is a single swipe away from any screen in the OS. This is all moot in newer iPhones tho, as the physical camera button in the lower right is the easiest and fastest way to get to the camera. Anyhow, this is all just personal preference, of course. Anyone is free to put a camera icon anywhere they please. I just personally can’t stand clutter in my home or lock screens, so I tend to keep the number of apps there to a minimum and access everything else either via Spotlight or Control Center widgets.
- supermatt 9mo ago
  Yeah, control centre also works, but that requires using 2 hands to do comfortably.
fnoff 9mo ago
I swipe down to see the notifications/lock screen, then right to access the camera.
- supermatt 9mo ago
  sure, but with typical one-handed operation you cant reach the top of the screen to swipe down.

BugsJustFindMe 9mo ago

> Why clutter your Home Screen when you can so easily access the camera from the lock screen Half the time since updating to iOS 26 on my 13 mini, if I try to activate the camera from the lock screen the app opens but the camera fails to start and the view just stays black, and then I have to exit and try again. It's quite annoying. This does not happen with the camera app after unlocking the phone.

SoftTalker 9mo ago
In don't understand accessing anything from the lock screen. It's locked, nothing should operate.
- azinman2 9mo ago
  It’s a special mode called secure access. You cannot actually access any existing data from it; but taking camera photos is a primary action that people use their phones for. Why wouldn’t you want to accelerate that?
  - gruez 9mo ago
    Not to mention with this feature, I don't have to hand an unlocked phone to a stranger if I want a photo taken.
  - SoftTalker 9mo ago
    I suppose. I rarely take photos with my phone. It's really one of the least used features of the device for me. When I activate the camera from the lock screen it's always unintentional and it's an annoyance. It would be nice to at least have the option to disable that. Edit: I discovered that in iOS 26 you can disable the "swipe" activation of the camera on the lock screen. I've done that and it should remove one of my major annoyances with the phone.
saagarjha 9mo ago
Mine does this too. I wonder if it’s exclusively an iPhone 13 mini thing because I don’t understand how it shipped.