Photo App crashing on iOS 18 while editing

I have the same issue. I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max with iOS 18.4.

When editing live photos, occasionally, when cropping or dragging the progress bar of the live photo, the app crashes unexpectedly. It happens randomly. After the crash, the app disappears and returns to the home screen. I've reported this issue to customer service many times, hoping they can fix it in the next version.

My iPad Pro brand new keeps crashing every time I modify photographs with my Apple Pencil. I do some layering on these photographs and it gets pretty heavy, but I saved them and copy them so I can do more layers but every time I try to save I get an error saying it can’t be saved. I have 1TB of memory that’s hardly used. I paid $1800 for this iPad and I can’t do my work on it.

Appreciate the info about the problem happening even with a new iPhone. I'm still using an iPhone 12 Pro and, while it could use a battery replacement, it's worked fine... up until the launch of iOS 18. There are so many problems with every iOS 18 update, I could write a novel.

But this iPhoto issue is what brought me here - iPhoto will randomly crash in the middle of editing a photo. It's happened before, but not for a while- which is why I thought it was safe to edit pics again lol. But nope- I was editing a photo earlier- taking my time with it, but had no other apps open in the background, no music playing, no low battery, no phone overheating... all was calm, until it wasn't. Idk what set it off but the screen suddenly turned black and the little "spinning wheel of doom" popped up. (Note the entire screen wasn't black, like when your phone powers down. I could still see the borders of the iPhoto app, but the main screen was black. I could see the buttons at the top- "Cancel" and "Save" - but I couldn't click on them.)

I hoped it would resolve after a few min but it just stayed that way; wheel kept spinning. So I finally gave up and closed the app. Lost all my work, same as last time. So infuriating. Such a waste.

iPhone quality has deteriorated so much... it's shocking tbh. I've been using iPhones since the beginning- and I've never had a harder time using my phone than right now. In 2025. That's pretty wild.

But it's been causing me so much unnecessary daily frustration that I'm considering leaving Apple altogether.

It just shouldn't be this complicated or confusing to use - especially with such a high price tag.

When there are more problems than convenience, it may be time for a change.

Clean up tool crashes when I press “done”

Exactly, still having the problem in 18.1 😔

This is still happening to me, 4 months after the original post.. is anyone else still having this problem?

Hopefully they will bring retouch back and able to turn clean off. Guess it depends on how they integrate photomator.

This is still happening on 18.3.1. No different after restating. I thought a great tool. I keep on wishing Apple could fix this!!

This is same with me as well but I want to double check some more issues in 16 pro max to know if anyone else is also facing these or its only myself.

settings>display&brightness > text size

the slider is moving but no change in the text size written above

LED flash alerts only works when you select Flash in silent mode, if you unselect this, it won’t work ever.

Lagging of Touch response while typing, the touch becomes very slow and lags while typing.

I tried resetting my 16 pro max and set it up as a new phone without any backup but these issues and the same.

anybody else is facing the same??

Both of those editing tools work for me. I've suffered no crashes. Do you have any suspicious apps? Do you have apps acquired by other than the App store?

It’s still happening in iOS 18.2.

Stupid question but have you tried restarting your phone? It started working for me after I restarted it.

Still problem in 18.2. Clearly this would have been caught in testing but they still released poor quality feature.