Google Camera

Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 12 years (2014–2025), in 4 threads.

People raised many different problems with Google Camera, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 4 complaints

Camera always opens Google's gallery, not the user's chosen default gallery app2025-05-14
Translation constantly changes as camera moves; hard to read and steady2017-09-29
ISO adjustment widget appears briefly and is hard to trigger and use2017-03-27
Mother couldn't find how to operate the camera after UI moved controls behind gestures2014-11-20