Users have taken to an Apple support forum to complain of the issue. According to their posts, they have seen photos taken with the iPhone 4's front facing camera--but which they themselves did not take--freeze on the phone's screen during FaceTime calls.
"My boyfriend and I have both recently experienced this problem several times - when one of us is calling the other via FaceTime, an old picture freezes on our screen, while the person receiving the call only sees a black screen," wrote kar0786. "It's kind of creepy, because it brought up photos of both of us at work, where I have used FaceTime a few times but he never has. We're just wondering how/why this is happening, and if there is a fix. It's not terribly inconvenient, but it's definitely unsettling, where is seems that even if we haven't taken a picture or used FaceTime, the camera is keeping images."
Another wrote, "I have a dashboard mount for my phone. I had left the phone in the car when I ran in to get my sandwich. This was at a strip mall that I had never visited before and never connected to any WiFi. I parked in the middle of the lot, about 75ft from the doors to Subway. Ran it, got my food, hopped back in the car. I hit the button to see if anyone called me (no one did) and drove off. After I got in to where I was working and ate my sandwich, I tried to use FaceTime and saw a frozen image of me in the car from 20-30 minutes prior!"
What might be causing the alleged issue has not been determined, though Apple support reportedly told one user, nasetron, to restore the factory settings on the iPhone 4 in order to resolve the problem (nasetron notes the problem "didn't go away after that, so they actually had me return it to an Apple store and swap it out for a new one."). People have reported the issue on both iOS 4.3 and iOS 4.3.1.
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iPhone 4 FaceTime Glitch Takes Secret Photos Of Users, Some Say
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