Ongoing iOS 18 Bug Prevents Photo Edits From Being Saved

[uacd]

Hopefully the bug with sRGB color on screenshots getting remapped to P3 gets picked up on… Half my screenshots look oversaturated. Assigning the sRGB profile back to them doesn’t fully get rid of that

Wait, they did that??
Turns out now I fully understand why uploading my photos to MacRumors often results in totally wrong colors unless I take screenshot of such photo. I am on 17.6.1, just tested and did a screenshot and was pleased to know those are still sRGB here.

Generally Apple should give an option. I always disliked P3, it is not versatile and often results in color loss. Also it is a pain to look at them since new iPhones do not truly show 10 bits of color but emulate the leftover 2 bits that are usually in higher spectrum areas (ultra reds, greens and blues)

 

[Tago]

Apple should stop sending notification to upgrade their OS until 6-7 months after the initial release. Bothering people to upgrade to a broken OS is annoyance.

Updating a computer/device immediately after a release has always been a lame thing to do with the exemption of urgent security fixes. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Ubuntu what not. Let someone else be the guineapig.

 

[uacd]

To be honest, Photos app in iOS 18 is itself a one large bug that should had never existed.

My guess is that Apple either needs to fire all the current software UI designers or give them a good rest, they have totally run out of ideas and burned out. The new design is totally against Apple software design philosophy, unintuitive, wrong. Another good option is to move to 2 years major software update cycle, anyway most of the new phones features are purely software-based and older phones are rarely getting them

 

[johnsawyercjs]

Apple should stop sending notification to upgrade their OS until 6-7 months after the initial release. Bothering people to upgrade to a broken OS is annoyance.

An alternative would be for Apple to warn users, with each supposedly "stable" point zero OS release, using some of the same language they use to describe their pre-release software: "Though this is a release version, it may still have undiscovered issues, so if you find any, please let us know ASAP."

I know that would be a stretch for Apple's ego, but it might be worth considering. I'd also suggest that they include "for which we apologize in advance", but that might be even more of a stretch, requiring Apple to get more comfortable with the concept of openly apologizing for things that cause trouble for its users.

 

[Qubelek]

There are many bugs. My screen is sometimes unresponsive in area close to the camera control button… broken phone. iCrap 16 pro.

 

[johnsawyercjs]

My guess is that Apple either needs to fire all the current software UI designers or give them a good rest, they have totally run out of ideas and burned out. The new design is totally against Apple software design philosophy, unintuitive, wrong.

I remember when the public beta of Mac OS X (what it was called before the name change to (or back to) macOS) was released in Sept 2000, and people began to find that a lot of the sensible UI elements that Apple had carefully built into Mac OS up to that point, and which most application developers followed in their apps' interfaces, had been changed for apparently no good reason, or just dropped. Some of those things were gradually rolled back into OS X, apparently due to reasonable complaints, and for many things that weren't, it was found that many of those things were now just done differently (or different), and often for the better. At some point it was said (apocryphally?) that Jobs had told the developers at Apple that mac OS had kind of ossified (he even held a mock funeral for it), and directed them to make enough of a departure from Mac OS that people would notice, but that they'd get used to it.

Unfortunately Job's instructions were taken too literally by many application developers too, both in and outside Apple, since it became common to find that parts of the UI interface for many applications fragmented away from following even the "reformed" OS X UI. There might be less of that fragmentation now, but unfortunately it still happens, making us still wonder how much of our confusion with the changes is due to us not catching on to some new way of doing things that the developers intended, or if it's the developers not getting how the UI is supposed to work.

I think we could all go on at length about how the Preferences/Settings/System Settings apps have gone bonkers over the years.

 

[Digital Dude]

I miss the days when upgrades were actual upgrades. 🙄

 

[ifxf]

Apple could probably minimize a lot of these photos bugs if they provided a way of just finalizing an edit and discard its edit history.

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

Typical Tim Cook. He cares more about maximizing profits for shareholders instead of providing customers products with a similar level of user-friendliness as before he was CEO.

I suspect we all have to agree that JOBS era is gone, now it’s all the same stupid chase for money, what I would like to see first is this YoY upgrade being taken off the table. MacRumors has enough traffic from all the issues that seem to emerge even more these days so both them and us should be happy for our community.

 

[ibookemo]

I have had this bug since iOS 17 was released so it is not new for iOS 18. Never saw it in iOS 16.

Tested on multiple phones - noticed on iPhones 15 Pro and 16 Pro.

I'm glad some attention is finally coming to the bug - hooray 🎉

 

[UnbreakableAlex]

That’s not the only severe Photo Bug:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/transfering-unedited-photos-videos-from-iphone-15-pro-max-is-not-working-photos-image-capture-crashing.2442557/

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

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.

Do we "demand more & more features?" Personally, I’d be thrilled with a snow leopard year or two again. And if only I had a nickel for all the posts wanting an “off” or “do not use” button for the A.I. features NOT demanded & references to unwanted bloat.

And is it “an occasional bug” or lots of bugs? I wish it was “occasional.”

IMO: modern Apple forcing out new features every year has created this model of “wait for .4 or .5” and many "workaround" DIY bandaid solutions, where possible (else, just live with it where not), while hoping they get around to actually fixing “them” sooner than later.

I don’t want to sound overly critical- I use Apple tech every day- but “good old days” Apple seemed better at refining and bug extermination than 2024 Apple. 10+ years ago: go ahead and upgrade at .2 or .3 with pretty good confidence. Today: be wary even at .4 or .5... and have a way to revert back if the plunge leads to undesirable bugs you can't work around.

 

[I7guy]

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.

Me too. Bring back “antenna gate” days of yore.

 

[davide_eu]

Apple could probably minimize a lot of these photos bugs if they provided a way of just finalizing an edit and discard its edit history.

"minimize...bugs" and "a$$le" in the same sentence...

Why I'm not surprised anymore for reading this?

 

[Mr_Ed]

Do we "demand more & more features?" Personally, I’d be thrilled with a snow leopard year or two again. And if I had a nickel for all the posts wanting an “off” or “do not use” button for the A.I. features NOT demanded & references to unwanted bloat.

Yeah, many of us do not even want a lot of the new features, let alone “demand“ new features. I would be happy with solid performance and usability from the existing features I am actually likely to use frequently. Some might refer to them as “quality of life” improvements.

iPhone/iPad were designed to use your finger yet I can rarely place of move a cursor accurately with a finger, or successfully select a particular word without having to engage the space bar and unselect the crap it selected for me nearly every time. I sometimes get awakened by some Shortcut/Automation running notification that for some reason known only to Apple, can’t be silenced by a Focus mode. CarPlay takes over my vehicle’s audio if I have the audacity to pick up the phone and use an app or browse the web (no, I’m not driving at the time). Mysterious WiFi dropouts and general unreliability across multiple iOS/iPadOS versions that improve if you turn off “Private WiFi Address” even though no other WiFi devices in your home have issues. Siri that insists it can’t find a song even though it is loaded on the device itself.

There are just so many “little things” that impact us on a daily basis that should be so much better than they are. Improve THOSE, FFS! Until they do, they can keep their AI, Genmoji, emoji, Image Playground, or whatever else they insist is so great as far as I‘m concerned.

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

Yeah, many of us do not even want a lot of the new features, let alone “demand“ new features. I would be happy with solid performance and usability from the existing features I am actually likely to use frequently. Some might refer to them as “quality of life” improvements.

iPhone/iPad were designed to use your finger yet I can rarely place of move a cursor accurately with a finger, or successfully select a particular word without having to engage the space bar and unselect the crap it selected for me nearly every time. I sometimes get awakened by some Shortcut/Automation running notification that for some reason known only to Apple, can’t be silenced by a Focus mode. CarPlay takes over my vehicle’s audio if I have the audacity to pick up the phone and use an app or browse the web (no, I’m not driving at the time). Mysterious WiFi dropouts and general unreliability across multiple iOS/iPadOS versions that improve if you turn off “Private WiFi Address” even though no other WiFi devices in your home have issues. Siri that insists it can’t find a song even though it is loaded on the device itself.

There are just so many “little things” that impact us on a daily basis that should be so much better than they are. Improve THOSE, FFS! Until they do, they can keep their AI, Genmoji, emoji, Image Playground, or whatever else they insist is so great as far as I‘m concerned.

Hallelujah

 

[macuser1992]

Typical Tim Cook. He cares more about maximizing profits for shareholders instead of providing customers products with a similar level of user-friendliness as before he was CEO.

Absolutely! I have close to 100,000 photos in my photos app. I like it much more than Lightroom. They destroyed the indexing. two months ago I was able to search my library by lens which is much easier than camera. Thats gone.. ill be investing in NAS now ill do my own back ups. hope the titanium b p was worth it Tim Cook

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

Mr_Ed provides a nice, fairly mainstream list of bugs that affect many. And I bet others could add many more. I'll add just one more that has lingered since Big Sur...

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This is widespread but not affecting every user and every external enclosure. It's referenced in countless threads here, there and everywhere ... including Apple's own support forums (do searches for "macOS unexpected ejections" to discover the breadth & depth of this BUG(s)).

When someone shares the problem, defenders will try to redirect to cables, blame the user, user settings, firmware updates, etc... while ignoring large numbers of posts of people who upgraded to a macOS version newer than Big Sur and crashed into this problem with a previously perfectly-reliable enclosure(s) and all else remaining the same... and then- because they needed the enclosure more than the updated macOS FABs- DOWNGRADE to a pre-Big Sur macOS version again and the enclosure resumes being perfectly stable (and/or hooking the same enclosure with the same cable/firmware/etc to ANY older Mac or any PC and it being perfectly stable too). All of the redirect blame variables remain the same here- just one thing changes.

Hop on Amazon and select an enclosure of interest: pick an enclosure, any enclosure. Then search reviews for "macOS unexpected ejection" and see if you can find one with no references of buyers claiming it does this. Good luck. It's harder than you think unless you focus on those with hardly any reviews. Even when you think you found a lucky one, it doesn't always work out. I gave the gift of a new Mac and a new external drive from a mainstream brand as a holiday gift just last year. All seemed well on day one but on day 2 (and since), owner wakes up each morning to not just ONE notification looking like the above but that same notification stacked up many times, running all the way down the right side of their screen. 😬

I'm towards 95% convinced that this is port management bug(s) in macOS based upon a ton of testing including the perfect stability through the same cable connection to older Macs (running pre-Big Sur macOS) or PCs but not being able to remain connected for more than about 3 hours (in my case) to any "latest & greatest" Mac running latest & greatest(?) macOS versions.

We're on about 5 YEARS of this now. Is Apple ever going to debug port management software in macOS??? The DIY, workaround is basically enclosure roulette: keep trying different ones until you luck out with one that can stay connected... even though the ones you already own are fine with older Macs and any PC.

My opinion: bring on that Snow Leopard year or two! Significantly debug what we have instead of glomming on a bunch of new stuff every year whether many of us want it or not. Revive "just works."

 

[Xavier]

This bug is so frustration. I have definitely experienced it

 

[zorinlynx]

Photos app is buggy as hell. Mine still freezes sometimes when I try to go into an album.

They really should have left it alone. The new design is crappy and the bugs introduced make it even worse.

 

[DailySlow]

Same here. I find it annoying, not useful. Once in a while I mistakingly turn it on - then whoops! shut that sucker off. And no issues with my photos so far this update.

 

[uiop.]

Ridiculous. Between the number of bugs and the disconnect between their marketing department and Apple Intelligence feature availability, Apple should be ashamed of iOS 18. I'll continue to tell my parents to hold off on updating their phones from iOS 17 until 18 is at least not riddled with bugs.

 

[DailySlow]

Is "infrequent" the new version of a "small number"?
Tame media is going to run out of euphemistic variations soon.

Yes, and that is terrifying!

 

[Digital Dude]

My experience with the Photos App on 18.1 has been frustratingly inconsistent. It rarely opens in the same configuration, which makes using it feel chaotic. While Apple has been lowering the bar on expectations for years, this is starting to feel downright absurd.
Sure, Apple still has the slightest razor’s edge over the competition, but I can’t see that lasting much longer. 🙄

 

[Razorpit]

Mr_Ed provides a nice, fairly mainstream list of bugs that affect many. And I bet others could add many more. I'll add just one more that has lingered since Big Sur...

​

This is widespread but not affecting every user and every external enclosure. It's referenced in countless threads here, there and everywhere ... including Apple's own support forums (do searches for "macOS unexpected ejections" to discover the breadth & depth of this issue).

When someone shares the problem, defenders will try to redirect to cables, blame the user, user settings, firmware updates, etc... while ignoring large numbers of posts of people who upgraded to a macOS version newer than Big Sur and crashed into this problem with a previously perfectly-reliable enclosure(s) and all else remaining the same... and then- because they needed the enclosure more than the updated macOS FABs- DOWNGRADE to a pre-Big Sur macOS version again and the enclosure resumes being perfectly stable (and/or hooking the same enclosure with the same cable/firmware/etc to ANY older Mac or any PC and it being perfectly stable too). All of the redirect blame variables remain the same here- just one thing changes.

Hop on Amazon and select an enclosure of interest: pick an enclosure, any enclosure. Then search reviews for "macOS unexpected ejection" and see if you can find one with no references of buyers claiming it does this. Good luck. It's harder than you think unless you focus on those with hardly any reviews.

I'm towards 95% convinced that this is port management bug(s) in macOS based upon a ton of testing including the perfect stability through the same cable connection to older Macs (running pre-Big Sur macOS) or PCs but not being able to remain connected for more than about 3 hours to any "latest & greatest" Mac running latest & greatest(?) macOS versions.

We're on about 5 YEARS of this now. Is Apple ever going to debug port management software in macOS??? The DIY, workaround is basically enclosure roulette: keep trying different ones until you luck out with one that can stay connected... even though the ones you have are fine with older Macs and any PC.

My opinion: bring on that Snow Leopard year or two! Significantly debug what we have instead of glomming on a bunch of new stuff every year whether many of us want it or not.

Stuff like this is another failure on Apple's part. Even to the point to where I have to ask myself and look up, which version is Big Sur? 😆

I am (maybe more correctly was) an Apple nerd don't remember all that stuff, let alone which chipset is better, Pro, Max, Ultra, Extreme, Magnum. Then stuff like M4 whatever better than high end M2 in some cases... 🙃 There's like a whole new level of nerdism required to fully understand the current Apple.