Initial reports of camera crashes appear to have surfaced in 2019 and the complaints continue to this day, with frustrated users taking to the camera app's review section to vent. This camera curse has afflicted Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, Pixel 3, Pixel 3XL, Pixel 4, and Pixel 4a owners, according to online comments. Credit: Brittany Levine Beckman / mashable The "Something went wrong" error message taunts me whenever I try to use the camera app on my Pixel 2.
(You can see me pout in the corner of my phone below it was the last selfie I took on my Pixel.) Some adventurous tinkerers have taped a magnet next to the rear camera, which seems to fix the issue sometimes, but they then have to live with an ugly magnet taped to the back of their phone. You can sometimes get the front camera to work to take a selfie, but the error message taunts you on screen as you snap your sad face.
Neither does factory resetting your phone. You try again and get a pop-up that says "Something went wrong / Close and open the Camera app and try again." Except closing and opening the app doesn't do anything. The curse unfurls like this: Your camera works fine one moment, but the next time you try to take a picture, the camera app crashes. We all bought Pixels because of the hyped camera tech, and then hated Google because of its camera fails - and the tech giant's reluctance to publicly admit to a widespread issue. I was struck by the Pixel camera curse, like so many others who've shared their tales of woe on message boards and within app reviews. I loved my Pixel camera - until it went berserk on me at the most inopportune time.
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