UIImagePickerController shows black bar when zooming – Is this a bug in iOS?
Edit : It has been suggested this post is a duplicate , which is not the case as the black bars are not initially present an an affine transformation does not remedy the problem. I run this on an iPad Air 2 and target iOS 8. I have a UIImagePickerController whose showsCameraControls property is set to NO . When starting the app in landscape and then zooming in, this is what happens (all images are non-cropped): A black bar appears and can be gotten rid of by changing device orientation to portrait (which will also show the black bar) and then changing it back. After change to portrait: Back to