Photos won't play videos on my iPhone 15 Pro that I've taken

Did you find a resolution for this? I don’t use iCloud and video I shot this afternoon displays only the first frame. Like the OP, I can edit it fine in iMovie, but the photos app does nothing when I press play. Using iPhone 15 Pro and ios 17.2.1

Greetings crouchkl,

It sounds like your videos won’t sync from iCloud to your iPhone. We know how important this is for you, and we will help get you to the right place to find a resolution.

The first thing to try is the steps listed in this support article. These steps can often resolve this type of issue:

• If your iCloud Photos aren't syncing to your device - Apple Support

If you need continued assistance, please get in touch with the Apple support team via this link: Get Support.

Cheers.

After doing some research and finding almost nothing - I decided to try something:

** Before doing this make sure all is sync'd with iCloud **

1) I turned the "Sync this iPhone" OFF. However, I was still seeing in the previous menu "Photos On" so I decided to restart the phone (got ~35k photos + 3k videos - so perhaps the reason was that it was trying to remove the local items or something ).

2) After restarting the phone, I was still seeing the "Photos On" on iCloud.

3) I turned back ON the "Sync this iPhone" option. It took several minutes for it to respond ( the spinning icon was on )

4) I opened Photos, and after several minutes, it looked like it started downloading everything from iCloud.

5) I tried to play a video and they are working again !!!

Hope this helps.

I called Apple support about this. They told me to push the volume up button then volume down then hold the power button until the Apple symbol appeared. This is a hard restart and it fixed the issue

The same thing is happening to me at this moment since I upgraded to the iPhone 15. Every video I take on the phone is not playing even after I record it.

If I click "Edit" on the video, then I hit play, it works.

If I hit "Play" on the video itself under Photos, it will do nothing.

If I "Send" the video via 3rd party app, i.e. WhatsApp, the video plays fine after processing.

I'm not sure what to do - this never happened before... any clues ? Everything is sync'd with iCloud...

This worked for me. Videos are now playing correctly on iPhone 15 Pro

Thanks mate that really helped 🤝