Is your camera icon missing from the Home screen of your Apple iPhone or iPad? It’s a very common problem. Here are some things to try to help you find the missing Camera icon.
Check Restrictions
- Open “Settings“.
- Select “General“.
- Select “Restrictions“.
- Make sure the “Camera” isn’t restricted. It should be set to “On“.
If you get prompted for a password when you select Restrictions and are not sure what the password is, you’re not along. This often happens without everybody who uses the iPhone or iPad knowing. Perhaps a kid got to tinkering with the device. Check with family members or anybody who had access to the device to see if they know the password.
If you get prompted for a password when you select Restrictions and are not sure what the password is, you’re not along. This often happens without everybody who uses the iPhone or iPad knowing. Perhaps a kid got to tinkering with the device. Check with family members or anybody who had access to the device to see if they know the password.Check All Home Screens
Swipe back and forth between Home screens to make sure the icon is not on a different one. Some users may forget that you have multiple Home screens.
Use Search
- From the Home screen, swipe all the way left.
- Type “Camera” in the “Search” field. The “Camera” option should be displayed where you can tap it.
Check All Folders
Check every app folder to see if the Camera icon is hiding there.
Is the Camera icon still missing from your iPhone or iPad home screen? Well, these next suggestions may be a bit extreme, but if you really need the Camera app, you may want to go ahead and try them in the following order.
Mandi says
Fricken Brilliant! I was devastated when I read “reset the home screen” as I hadn’t backed up to iTunes in months – tomorrow i Swear!
This worked Beautifully!
Rock Solid if you use restrictions!
Gail M. says
I found mine after I followed the aforementioned steps in TV!
Thanks for helpful tips.
Guardian Angel says
If anyone stumbles with this thread in the future, I had the same issue, and SOLVED it by deleting my work email account from my phone.
Apparently, my IT department has some restrictions imposed on work phones, and as soon as mine got connected through the account, the apps were blocked.
Just remove the offending email account and the apps come back!
Abbie says
Thanks for the info but I didn’t get my camera back because I don’t know the password for the restrictions
Peter Appleyard says
“Restore the Home screen to defaults” – that worked for me!
Thank you very much!
GoCart says
Thanks. My camera was in restrictions.
Ceza says
I tried the tip you shared but it doesn’t work. I have this email that my school created on which they close the camera. So when I logged in, the camera dissapered and I can’t turn on the camera in the restriction.
So I logged off my school email, basically deleted it.
Is there something missing?
Al'ansar says
It’s really worked thanks a lot
MARK Richard says
My girlfriend has an iPhone 5 and we can’t get the video calls working on Facebook. She did it last night and even though it worked the picture was dark and not very visible. When she tried to call me with the video call the camera icon did nothing when she pressed it . How can we make the video call in Facebook messenger work right? She said that all she heard was a sound but no video call screen appeared.when I tried to make a video call to her using my laptop and my Android phone. She told me that the same was true.what can be wrong with the phone that will not allow video calls ? Is there some setting that needs to be enabled? Please help me . Sincerely , Mark Richard
Linda Henry says
My general settings does not include a Restrictions tab. What do I do?
Janet says
Thank you so much. I had restricted the camera in Settings.
Lucius says
Thank You! That worked perfectly!thank you so much!!!!!!
Turk Phillips says
Thanks for helping me find my camera!