Open Camera status

Apps & Core Settings
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I’ve continued to use Open Camera on my FP3 since it was replaced as default app by the Aperture-based ‘Camera’. The iodé update from April 2024 mentions this change but I don’t know what the reasoning was - too complex? not recently updated?

I’ve used ‘Camera’ but, whilst I’m not a photographer and don’t want an app that’s too complicated, it’s way too simplistic and lacks a number of options. So I’m still stuck with the last installed Open Camera v1.52-iode.12. It has a bug with Panorama mode, whereby it never saves the image and/or crashes. I see in F-Droid that the non-iodé version has continued to receive updates and is now at v1.55 from September 2025. I could save the settings and change to that version, but I’m curious whether the app was dropped for some other reason I should be aware of?

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Hi Pierre,

there is an answer to your technical question: [REQUEST] update opencamera in fdroid to latest

As for why iodé chose Aperture, I don’t know. But if you like Open Camera better then just go for it!

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As I understand we deferred to the upstream decision from LineageOS to include Aperture now as the default.

PS: Ooof my wording wasn’t that good on the linked post. I fixed it a bit to make it at least 30% more understandable :slight_smile:

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