When trying to open the Camera App on your Samsung Galaxy S22, Samsung Galaxy S22+ or Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, you may get an error message.
To see how you can potentially fix this issue with the S22 series, you can take a look at this troubleshooting guide at Seeking Tech.
1. The first step we recommend taking is to make sure that your Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+ or Galaxy S22 Ultra is not overheating. If it feels hot when touched, then we recommend letting it cool down before trying to open the Camera App.
For more information on how you can cool your overheating S22 phone, you can check out this article.
2. If it probably a good idea to let your smartphone dry up if it gets wet as well.
To see how you can properly dry your wet phone, you can take a look at this post.
3. You should also make sure that you have sufficient battery life on your smartphone.
4. If you have multiple apps opened when you try to open the camera app, then we recommend that you close the other apps.
5. You can also try stopping any background running apps you aren’t currently using by taking the following steps:
- Open the Settings App on your S22 series phone.
- Tap Battery and device care.
- Tap Memory.
- Select the background apps that you want to close.
- Tap Clean now.
6. You can also use the Optimize Now function by doing the following:
- Launch the Settings App on your Samsung phone.
- Select Battery and device care.
- Select Optimize now.
6. You may also want to restart your Samsung Galaxy S22, S22+ or S22 Ultra.
In order to do so, press and hold the side and volume down keys at the same time to bring up the power off menu. You can then tap the Restart option.
7. The internal storage of your S22, S22+ or S22 Ultra may also be too full.
Therefore, we recommend that you use no more than 85% on the internal memory of your smartphone. To free up space, delete any apps, photos, videos and other files that you don’t need. You can also move any important files that you want to keep to a different storage.
8. It is a good idea to also keep the firmware of your S22 series phone, as well as the software of the Camera App, up to date.
9. One last option you can try is to perform a factory reset. This will delete all the personal and customized data you have stored on your Galaxy S22, S22+ or S22 Ultra. Therefore, we recommend backing up any important files or data before starting this process.
To factor reset, you need to take the following steps:
- Open the Settings App on your phone.
- Select General management.
- Select Reset.
- Select Factory data reset.
- Select Reset.
- Select Delete all.