since the release of iOS26 i get new reports of people making home screen apps of website pages that had camera accessibility to take pictures that mention the camera being 90degree sideways to what it should be.
i have tested it myself and was able to reproduce the issue quite easily on iPhones 13|15|16 regular and pro versions.
this affects all cameras when trying using them with navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({...})...
not sure if this helps but pretty sure it's related. while trying to patch my app, to be able to know which kind of adjustment i have to make my app do, i ended up having to use: "screen.orientation.type" in javascript
even though once again it works fine in safari, in the home screen app it always return: "portrait-primary" not matter the state of the device.
I have a problem with my iPhone 13 Pro camera since I updated to ioS 26 it brought a camera message and when I open the camera app on potrait and cinematic mode the camera is zoomed to 3x and I can’t zoom out.. I tried resetting all settings but it didn’t work. But sometimes when I restart the phone it works normally then after sometime the screen goes black
Same family of bug, seen from the recording side, on iOS 26.6. The front camera track reports the sensor buffer (1920x1080) whatever way the phone is held, and neither getSettings() nor screen.orientation will tell you how the frame is actually drawn, which matches what you are seeing with screen.orientation stuck on portrait-primary in home screen apps. What worked for me was to stop asking the APIs and measure the picture: draw one frame of the video element onto a 16 by 16 canvas scaled from the larger reported dimension, and check which corner has paint. Bottom left painted and top right not means the frame is tall. From that you can rotate the preview yourself, or in my case decide whether to record the raw track or a canvas of the drawn frame. Write-up with the dead ends: https://dev.to/lagudafuad/why-your-web-teleprompter-records-sideways-on-iphone-and-the-fix-549m and the code, MIT: https://github.com/lagudafuadtosin/web-teleprompter (src/lib/camera.ts). The recorded-file half of this is WebKit bug 323550, which Apple has triaged as a regression, and my own thread here is 844826.
