❗🚨 Crash on iOS 26.1 when calling openCamera() 🚨 ❗

[saiDev1999]

❗ Crash on iOS 26.1 when calling openCamera() using react-native-image-crop-picker

🧾 Description

The app crashes immediately on iOS 26.1 (public release) when invoking ImagePicker.openCamera().
The same code works perfectly on all previous iOS versions.
Debug mode its working, issue is coming when its release build

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🧩 Environment

• react-native: 0.78.3
• react-native-image-crop-picker: latest (as of November 2025)
• Device: iPhone 15 (iOS 26.1 — public release)
• Xcode: 16+
• Build Type: Release

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💻 Code Snippet

import ImagePicker from 'react-native-image-crop-picker';

ImagePicker.openCamera({
  mediaType: 'photo' // 'video',
});

[itfelipe]

I am having the same issue!!
react-native: 0.76.6
react-native-image-crop-picker: 0.41.2
Device: (iOS 26.1 — public release)

[Sirzs]

I am having the same issue!!
react-native: 0.82.1
react-native-image-crop-picker: 0.51.1
Device: (iOS 26.1 — public release)

[Sirzs]

I found the issue of crash. When I removed @ Microsoft/react-native-clarity （^4.4.1）, everything was fine.

[roni-castro-shipt]

We are updating this lib to version 0.51.1, so I tested using this lib on an iPhone 11 - iOS 21.1 with react-native 0.78.3 old architecture in release mode, and also using the version with these updates from TestFlight, and I haven't seen any crash in release mode when taking a picture using the camera.

The only error I've seen was this one below once, but the app didn't crash. I wonder if the error you got was not caused by the Apple OS update itself, and a phone restart could have fixed it:

Couldn't write values for keys (
    CAMUserPreferenceCameraControlsSelectionDidMigrate
) in CFPrefsPlistSource<0x14b315980> (Domain: com.apple.camera, User: kCFPreferencesCurrentUser, ByHost: No, Container: (null), Contents Need Refresh: No): setting preferences outside an application's container requires user-preference-write or file-write-data sandbox access

[Mindgames55]

in my case was related to Sentry and session replays , removed all attachScreenshot, replays and attachViewHierarchy. it seems Sentry screenshooting conflicts with taking a pic on iOS 26. There is also known issue with Sentry and masking for iOS26 , I suspect it is related to this as well

[maheshgoqii]

did anyone found solution for this @saiDev1999 ?

[BrianRubioDuran]

Fix for iOS 13+ scene-based window deprecation

This patch fixes the react-native-image-crop-picker (v0.51.1) issue where the picker fails to present on iOS 13+ due to the deprecated UIApplication.delegate.window API.

Changes:

• Uses connectedScenes API to find the key window on iOS 13+
• Falls back to the legacy delegate.window approach for older versions
• Sets modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen for the camera picker
• Removes the recursive viewDidLoad call that caused a stack overflow

Using patch-package:

Save the following as patches/react-native-image-crop-picker+0.51.1.patch:

diff --git a/node_modules/react-native-image-crop-picker/ios/src/ImageCropPicker.mm b/node_modules/react-native-image-crop-picker/ios/src/ImageCropPicker.mm
index 354ad09..a6ac5fe 100644
--- a/node_modules/react-native-image-crop-picker/ios/src/ImageCropPicker.mm
+++ b/node_modules/react-native-image-crop-picker/ios/src/ImageCropPicker.mm
@@ -128,7 +128,27 @@ RCT_EXPORT_MODULE(RNCImageCropPicker);
 }
 
 - (UIViewController*) getRootVC {
-    UIViewController *root = [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController];
+    UIViewController *root = nil;
+
+    if (@available(iOS 13.0, *)) {
+        for (UIScene *scene in [UIApplication sharedApplication].connectedScenes) {
+            if ([scene isKindOfClass:[UIWindowScene class]]) {
+                UIWindowScene *windowScene = (UIWindowScene *)scene;
+                for (UIWindow *window in windowScene.windows) {
+                    if (window.isKeyWindow) {
+                        root = window.rootViewController;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            if (root) break;
+        }
+    }
+
+    if (!root) {
+        root = [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController];
+    }
+
     while (root.presentedViewController != nil) {
         root = root.presentedViewController;
     }
@@ -175,15 +195,13 @@ RCT_EXPORT_METHOD(openCamera:(NSDictionary *)options
                 picker.cameraDevice = UIImagePickerControllerCameraDeviceFront;
             }
 
+            picker.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
             [[self getRootVC] presentViewController:picker animated:YES completion:nil];
         });
     }];
 #endif
 }
 
-- (void)viewDidLoad {
-    [self viewDidLoad];
-}
 
 - (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo:(NSDictionary *)info {
     NSString* mediaType = [info objectForKey:UIImagePickerControllerMediaType];