Some items cannot be added to your Photo library because they may be an unrecognizable file format

I'm running a MacBook Pro 2018 with Mojave 10.14.16 and Photos 4.0. Recently I updated my iPhone 12 to 16.0.2.

None of my photos since the iOS update will import to my Photos app on the laptop. I've tried checking "keep originals" and "most compatible" in the phone settings and plugging into different usb ports on the laptop. No, I'm not using iCloud to sync at all, just trying to plug in the phone to the laptop, press "import all new items", but then it produces an error message.

"Some items cannot be added to your Photo library because they may be an unrecognizable file format or the file may not contain valid data".

Extremely frustrating, this was all working fine for 2 years until last week when I updated the phone iOS. I've searched everywhere but there doesn't seem to be any fix for this?? Please if anyone knows how to fix this it would be greatly appreciated.