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Ongoing iOS 18 Bug Prevents Photo Edits From Being Saved

My experience that this isn’t new and I’ve had it occur on my ipad pro as well. The exact error message for the last 2 + years and therefore the older ios versions as well. I showed it to an Apple genius at Apple. Seems to occur if you edit a series of photos say 6 without leaving the app. It will finally stop saving the edits.
 
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Interesting. I've had a similar problem on iOS 18 where my iPhone 12 Pro Max often fails to save raw photos. I take a bunch of photos and discover that the raw ones were all saved as a white square and when I try to open or edit it, even if I just took it, it says it's unable to download it. As best I can tell, the file is corrupt. Raw from other apps works fine, it's just Apple Camera. I've reported it multiple times but heard nothing.

 
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On a 16P I've had multiple crashes when trying to save my edits. Rather annoying. I end up using other apps to do the editing on those images (happens repeatedly on the same images).
 
To get around the problem go to Settings->Camera->Formats and change from HEIF to Most Compatible

Not ideal but seems to work for most people
 
I've definitely hit this problem with my iPhone 16. Sometimes I get the error. Sometimes when I try to save the edits, I just get the spinny-circle-of-death that never goes away and I have to force quit the Photos app since it stops responding.
 
sw1tcher said:
And this is why I continue to stick with my OS upgrade schedule where I do not upgrade to a new OS version until the x.4 or x.5 version is out.
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I’m not as focused on numbers or time as you, because there’s no apparent system or structure to the improvements. It’s a version number, yes. So you can tell on a map where one is compared to others. But 18.5 might introduce bugs not in 18.3 etc.

I just wait until the coil whine is barely audible in here 😎 (seriously. I’m still on 17.7.1)

And I never never never (I fail every now and again) update on day 1….again. I’ll try to. Almost broke on 18, but so glad I didn’t (hello messy Photos App)
 
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Sure, I’m a chicken, a wuss. I don’t upgrade first anymore.

But as before it was cool being first with software, even stable software was buggy before. Upgrade was PART of the fun of being a nerd…

But as our devices becomes more advanced, fills even more functions in life, every bug/upgrade has wider and wider implications.

I’m just not ready to upgrade in the morning and run out the door and not have ApplePay not work. Or upgrade at night and alarm not go off so I can’t get out the door. Or Airplay be choppy….or iCloud show my old photos to my new gf, or old pron pics to my mom when I hand her my phone to show a meme, or the door not opening when I’m standing soaking wet outside.

Apple et al. should create a new “tier” of software. We have Alpha and Beta (and RC etc etc)…but there should be one deemed “Stable” and another “Fresh”. Stable is safe. Fresh might not be. My dad expects a new version to JUST WORK. I’m usually the one who gets blamed for it and has to fix it.
 
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SebCohen said:
Apple et al. should create a new “tier” of software. We have Alpha and Beta (and RC etc etc)…but there should be one deemed “Stable” and another “Fresh”. Stable is safe. Fresh might not be.
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Unfortunately, a lot of software can't really be called stable or safe until it's been released to the public and has been used by enough people long enough to determine whether it's actually stable for nearly everyone. It needs to prove itself with a wide variety of users, under different conditions, different models, etc. Even exhaustive in-house testing by Apple, before release, might not reveal a bug on their comparatively limited number of test platforms.

That's assuming Apple always does exhaustive in-house testing on their software. It seems they don't always, at least not as defined by the dictionary, judging by some of their releases. Maybe their exhaustive testing list of steps needs to be supplemented.
 
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HobeSoundDarryl said:
wait for .4 or .5 (approx. WWDC time) is the new wait for .2 or .3 from the good old days. I miss "just works" Apple.
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Apple engineers have done an exceptionally good job keeping the user interface simple and clean while adding massively advanced features every year. We can't really complain that the occasional bug creeps in when we demand more and more features.
 
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I’ve randomly experienced this bug with some photo and video well before iOS 18. (In each case, I always assumed that it was due to a heavy amount of retouch edits involved.) Again, super sporadic at maybe only 1% of the time.
 
coolfactor said:
Do you have a bald spot now? Take a pic for us.
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