I recently purchased my S22 Ultra and snapchat has been functioning like normal until this morning. This morning when I would try to use the front facing camera, it would instead swap to the .6X Zoom camera also on the rear. I've tried everything from clearing the cache, restarting my phone, and reinstalling snapchat. Any suggestions on what to do? I've not changed any settings other than factory in snapchat. Camera, mic, and location permissions are on.
To fix this issue you can go to settings>permissions>permission manager>snapchat and untick the camera access permission and restart the snapchat app. When starting up the app is now going to request access to the camera and after allowing it this permission back its gonna go back to using the front facing camera like normal
edit: i just checked, as of 11:45pm CT the selfie mode is back!
I reported the issue to Snapchat a few hours ago, they emailed me:
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The troubleshooting I did, to no avail:
I cannot use selfie camera on Samsung galaxy s22 up to date. The camera alternates between front facing and a front facing zoom. Updated to recent version of snapchat today - still cannot use it I cleared local lens data and all lens data and restarted the phone, I did this twice. I have a screenshot showing a dark screen (snapchat doesn't have access to my selfie or rear camera so it made it black). I cleared cache in settings of snapchat, restarted, same issue. I tried uninsfalling and reinstalling and restarting, still persists. This just happened today. The most recent Android update was a few days ago (I think last Sunday was the update) and seems unlikely that it just now caused something with snapchat to go wrong. The camera of my device works as expected, with rear and front cameras. I also tried having snapchat ask for permission for the camera each time when I open it and I give permission and still the selfie camera is not working.
I also tried to install a former version of Snapchat via APK (from early June), same issue.
To fix this issue you can go to settings>permissions>permission manager>snapchat and untick the camera access permission and restart the snapchat app. When starting up the app is now going to request access to the camera and after allowing it this permission back its gonna go back to using the front facing camera like normal
