@ViewChildren(TemplateRef) is undefined for <template> elements

If you move console.log('child', this.templates); to ngAfterViewInit() then it works.

ngAfterViewInit() {
  console.log('child', this.templates);
}

I had expected it to work in ngAfterContentInit() as well. It seems in this Angular version ngAfterContentInit() runs before ngAfterViewInit(). I was sure this was the other way around earlier.

Plunker example