iOS 27 Camera App: Advanced Camera Tool Icon Customization Bugs

Product: iPhone 18 Pro, running iOS 27.0.1

In the iOS 27 Camera app, the Advanced Camera Tool icons at the top of the screen (like Flash, Night Mode, Live Mode, etc.) default to “auto-hide” when turned OFF. For example, if Flash is turned off, the icon disappears from the top of the screen. But if you want certain Advanced Camera Tools to remain on the screen (so you can always see their status), select the <PHOTO> mode button (or <VIDEO> mode button, or others), tap the 6-dot icon in the lower right corner, tap <Edit> in the upper left corner, select the Advanced Camera Tool icons that you want to always display (up to 5), then tap <Done>.

NOTE: This feature also solves the problem of Live Mode being turned on by mistake… Just turn Live Mode OFF, then remove the Live Mode icon from the Advanced Camera Tools bar, and it will not appear at the top anymore (where it could accidentally get turned ON, by unknowingly brushing it with a finger).

Unfortunately, there seems to be 3 bugs when selecting Advanced Camera Tools to always display on-screen… 

1. When you select PHOTO mode and select 5 Advanced Camera Tools that you want to always appear, 5 icons do indeed appear after you tap <Done>, but some are different than the ones you selected. (In my case, the CENTER STAGE icon was replaced by the FORMAT icon.)
2. When you select VIDEO mode and select 5 Advanced Camera Tools that you want to always appear, only 4 out of the 5 icons appear after you tap <Done> (sometimes only 3), but some are different than the ones you selected. (In my case, the DEPTH icon and ADAPTIVE icon were missing, and the DUAL CAPTURE icon appeared in their place.
3. When you try to select Advanced Camera Tools to appear in a certain order, the order gets shuffled around as you add them.

NOTE: I haven’t tried this in depth on the other Camera modes yet (TIME-LAPSE, SLO-MO, CINEMATIC, PORTRAIT, SPATIAL, PANO), but I had similar issues with SLO-MO, so I am assuming that these issues affect all the modes.

I already reported this to Apple, but I’m just curious if anyone might have any insight as to these goings on, or if they are truly bugs.

Thanks!