I have no idea. A wild guess is that it might have to do with my setting option that preserves the last camera mode on re-launch, but I was never able to replicate a crash. I have not gotten a camera crash since I upgraded to iOS26. It only happened a few times, but once is too much.

The only issue I have with the camera now is that under low light conditions and fog, it will refuse to focus on a distant subject unless I cover the LIDAR.