Device: iPhone 17 Pro iOS Version: iOS 26.1 Camera: Ultra-wide (0.5x) using AVCaptureSession
Our camera app freezes on iPhone 17 when switching frame rates (30fps ↔ 60fps). This works fine on iPhone 16 Pro and earlier.
What We've Observed:
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Freeze happens on frame rate change - particularly when stabilization was enabled
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Thread.sleep is used - to allow camera hardware to settle before re-enabling stabilization
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Works on older iPhones - only iPhone 17 exhibits this behavior
Console shows these errors before freeze: 17281 <<<< FigXPCUtilities >>>> signalled err=18446744073709534335 <<<< FigCaptureSourceRemote >>>> err=-17281
Is Thread.sleep on the main thread causing the freeze? Should all camera configuration be on a background queue?
Is there something specific about iPhone 17 ultra-wide camera that requires different handling?
Should we use session.beginConfiguration() / session.commitConfiguration() instead of direct device configuration?
Is calling setFrameRate from a property's didSet (which runs synchronously) problematic?
Are the FigCaptureSourceRemote errors (-17281) indicative of the problem, and what do they mean?