Someone just posted about this issue on reddit so I decided to try it out on my phone - 16 Pro Max on IOS 18.6.2
I was on Seek 2.17.1 and when I took a picture, I just got the spinny wheel and nothing else (it did save the photo though):
After updating to the current 2.17.3, when tapping the photo button the camera video freezes and I get the black screen error:
I installed 2.17.4 from Testflight (which thankfully did not nuke all my Seek data), and I get the same behavior. There is nothing helpful looking in the logs before or after updating.
2025-09-17T19:06:25.119Z | App.js | INFO : App start. Version: 2.17.1 Build: 386
2025-09-17T19:06:28.770Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:06:44.648Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : CameraRoll.save resolved
2025-09-17T19:06:44.649Z | resultsHelpers.js | DEBUG : fetchUserLocation resolved
2025-09-17T19:06:44.651Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : fetchImageLocationOrErrorCode resolved
2025-09-17T19:12:21.708Z | App.tsx | INFO : App start. Version: 2.17.3 Build: 399
2025-09-17T19:12:25.242Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:18:59.602Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:19:24.059Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:26:46.030Z | App.tsx | INFO : App start. Version: 2.17.4 Build: 400
2025-09-17T19:27:08.291Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:27:34.057Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:27:36.370Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : CameraRoll.save resolved
2025-09-17T19:27:36.370Z | resultsHelpers.js | DEBUG : fetchUserLocation resolved
2025-09-17T19:27:36.371Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : fetchImageLocationOrErrorCode resolved
2025-09-17T19:27:38.671Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:28:06.479Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
2025-09-17T19:28:39.435Z | ARCamera.js | DEBUG : Uses vision camera
NB: As you can see it did work 1/5 times I tried. This was just me taking a picture of my hand for testing. I don’t use seek much anymore since the iNat Next app now has the AR camera functionality, but I am happy to facilitate any further testing.