I have a very odd issue. I took about 30 images in a batch on an iPhone 16 Pro running 18.1 RC, and exactly one of them has some sort of mild corruption that causes it to always display the "There was an error saving this photo. Please try again later." error message upon trying to save any changes. Nothing visually appears to be wrong, the Live Photo works, the metadata all appears, and the Photographic Style information is correct.
I tried Airdropping, iCloud links, Mac image capture, and normal texting. Only normal texting improves the situation, however that removes the photographic style data. I tried to export it on Photos.app on a Mac, and re-importing it causes all data to return (including Photographic Style) but it still cannot be edited. On Mac it says "An error occurred while loading a higher quality version of this photo. Please try again later." if I try to edit it even if it's immediately after import. If I import the photo without its attached Live Photo, it works as a static image perfectly including keeping the Photographic Style and allowing edits.
I've also tried to Airdrop it to a device associated with a different iCloud account that has no reason to have any data related to this image and it also exhibits the same behavior.
Is there anything I can do to truly repair this image and keep all the data?
I tried Airdropping, iCloud links, Mac image capture, and normal texting. Only normal texting improves the situation, however that removes the photographic style data. I tried to export it on Photos.app on a Mac, and re-importing it causes all data to return (including Photographic Style) but it still cannot be edited. On Mac it says "An error occurred while loading a higher quality version of this photo. Please try again later." if I try to edit it even if it's immediately after import. If I import the photo without its attached Live Photo, it works as a static image perfectly including keeping the Photographic Style and allowing edits.
I've also tried to Airdrop it to a device associated with a different iCloud account that has no reason to have any data related to this image and it also exhibits the same behavior.
Is there anything I can do to truly repair this image and keep all the data?
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