Yesterday I found out my iphone camera could see a qr code and when I hit the qr code button that comes up the url address is displayed. This helped me for proofing that my qr codes are correct. Now that I updated to iOS 26 last night that feature seems to be gone. Is there a way to get it back?
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It reads the code fine, and directs me to the link, but it used to be that if you clicked that qr code button off the right it would give you the options for copy, open in safari, etc. But it would also show the address it's pointing to. Weird, I just tried it again and it seems to be working now. I'll delete this question.
See the pic below
qr code preview missing in ios 26 camera
