Trying to edit a photo in Sequoia's Photos app--brand new machine, just installed two days ago, iMac--and nothing will save. It will always revert. Of course this is my 87 year old father's machine and he uses exactly two apps--Photos and Mail. We've rebooted, etc. etc.
Perhaps a known new operating system issue that a patch is to fix?
Or somebody has a fix?
iMac (M3, 2023)
Dear Richard.Taylor,
I have the same problem. I own an M3 MacBook Pro 14-inch since November 2023. There is over 600 GB available space on my hard disk. Photos worked perfectly until I upgraded my MacBook Pro to Sequoia. Now it would not save any edits, even the most basic cropping and/or rotating. I am an old-fashioned guy, so I open Photos by clicking on the Photos icon in the dock. I double-click on a selected photo in my library, then click on edit button. I crop, straighten, adjust light, colour, white balance, etc. I even tried a new Clean Up tool since Retouch tool disappeared with this upgrade. When I am done, which often takes up to a 20 minutes per photo — I click Done; the photo still looks fine even when I minimise it to a thumbnail size in Library. My Library instantly synchronises all photos. Next time I double click on the photo I edited, to enlarge it — it is reverted to the original unedited version and I have wasted 20 minutes for nothing. My machine is new, I had no problem with Photos until this upgrade. I do not use "Optimize Storage" as I have plenty of space, which I mostly use to keep photos on my hard disk in its original size. My Photos Library is in the Pictures folder on my hard drive. There is still more than 60% of disk storage free.
I am getting increasingly frustrated with Apple's "improvements". Every time they come up with something new, we will have lost something that we liked and were happily using up until the "improvement"...
Well we gave up, wiped the machine, didn't upgrade to Sequoia, re-did the migration, and all works just fine now. Of course I believe it is the update to Sequoia and Photos. For now, we're staying in Sonoma
That sounds crazy! I have an M3pro MacBook Pro, and I have no such problems with Photos. If you have tried booting into Safe Mode and the other things I suggested earlier, and it's still not working, I'd call Apple Support or go to an Apple Store to see what they suggest.
I reported this to Apple today - they didnt know about the problem.
For me personally I can edit screenshots or photos taken with my camera but not with my Android phone (Samsung or google pixel pro) - get error message that edits cannot be saved, or no error message, everything looks ok and go back to the photo and the simple edits eg crop, straighten etc were not saved
this goes for new photos since the upgrade or older photos too
has anyone found a solution to this problem
I have the same issues. I am working with photos I took two weeks ago, and only imported them to a newly released MacBook Pro. So these particular photos were not on my old device. There is probably something wrong with the retrieval/save system that Apple needs to fix in the Photos library.
marko196 wrote: ....My Library instantly synchronises all photos. Next time I double click on the photo I edited, to enlarge it — it is reverted to the original unedited version and I have wasted 20 minutes for nothing.
What kind of synchronizing are you referring to? Are you using iCloud Photos?
If yes, are your edited photos in a Shared iCloud Photos Library?
Also, you wrote "so I open Photos by clicking on the Photos icon in the dock. "
Have you tried to launch Photos by hitting the Photos application icon in the Applications folder?
The Dock icon may be linked to a different version of Photos on a backup drive.
Swisscheese01 wrote:
(from OneDrive)
It seems this thread has gone bad with many people complaining a similar problem but maybe with a different setup.
Photos libraries must be stored on APFS or MacOS Extended (GUID) case insensitive formatted disks (with the default "Ignore ownership on this volume" ON). Other non-Mac formats (FAT, exFAT etc), network shares are NOT supported and might be related to these failures. iCloud Photos might put some flies in the ointment.
Sequoia Photos might have introduced some new bugs but please describe the devil in the details. /rant
I am having the same issues with photo edits reverting to original. The same with unnamed faces I will add the name and it will instantly revert to unnamed, or won't let me even try to name. Creating groups just sits there, there is no way to ignore unwanted faces, when naming new photos 1/2 the time you have to create a new name for one that is already existing, then merge the folders. I am getting increasingly frustrated with photos. I should also say that I am not hooked into the cloud.
Upgraded to Sequoia a week ago. Now can save edited photos. ??
Have exactly same problem nothing from Apple
I boasted too early. If I try to edit the edited Sequoia picture (from OneDrive), it reverts to the un-edited version. If I edit a picture saved in an older OS, it works fine. Very frustrating.
I boasted too early. If I try to edit the edited Sequoia picture (from OneDrive), it reverts to the un-edited version. If I edit a picture saved in an older OS, it works fine. Very frustrating.
New Photos with Sequoia will not save edits
