After the latest update, when I turn on the camera in the browser, there is nothing on the screen, but if I record a video, and then I reproduce it, it will appear. Tested on Huawei P40 lite and Xiaomi Redmi 10S, the behavior is the same. Disabling Vulkan doesn’t help. [Screenshot_20260423_152333_com.brave.browser] [Screenshot_20260423_152400_com.brave.browser] If you tap on the screen, the camera comes to life.

[image] MasterLink: I’m honestly 90% sure that’s actually the issue, Autoplay does actually stop this site from loading the video, and tapping it works because it’s essentially the same as “Tap to play”, it’s just there is no play symbol to show you it’s paused (because the site wasn’t designed with autoplay being blocked in mine). That’s right, I turned on video autoplay and it helped.

[image] 289wk: Autoplay might stop your camera from working. I’m honestly 90% sure that’s actually the issue, Autoplay does actually stop this site from loading the video, and tapping it works because it’s essentially the same as “Tap to play”, it’s just there is no play symbol to show you it’s paused (because the site wasn’t designed with autoplay being blocked in mine). [image] 289wk: Also see: ‘Brave app not working on Android (Black Screen) - #12 by Kanchakanchi’ This is I’m 99.9% sure unrelated.

Black camera screen after latest Android Brave 1.189.137 update

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289wk April 24, 2026, 10:55am 2

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Autoplay might stop your camera from working.

Also see: ‘Brave app not working on Android (Black Screen) - #12 by Kanchakanchi’

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Black camera screen after latest Android Brave 1.189.137 update

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