iPhone 16 Pro trouble editing Live Photos

I also experience this problem.

To be more specific. For me changing the key frame of a live photo actually works, but if I right after having changed the key frame, try to hit the "Auto adjust" button the Photo app dies (instantly! not within a few seconds as you describe).

If I go back to the photo and revert the key frame change, the photo can be edited again. And here comes a few other interesting findings:

• If I open a picture taken with my iPhone 16 Pro from my old iPhone XS, guess what!? the problem is there too! The photo app crashes. I'm running iOS 18.0.1 on both phones.
• If a take a photo with the iPhone XS and edit it on the same phone the problem is not there
• If a take a photo with the iPhone XS and edit it on the same phone the problem is not there. If I open iPhone XS-photos on my iPhone 16 Pro the problem is not there
• And guess what (again)!! If I open a photo taken with the iPhone 16 Pro on my Mac Mini (running Sequoia), the Photo app crashes immediately when I try to change the key frame.

Hence... The problem lies in the photos that the iPhone 16 creates. The camera produces photos that are corrupt in some way, or it has a data structure that cannot be interpreted by the photo apps on iPhone and Mac.

I'm a 1000% percent sure of that we are not just a few having this problem, and even more sure of that Apple knows that the problem exists....

I have reported the issue to "feedback.apple.com".

Similar issues with editing photos. App instantly crashes when you try and change brightness for example. Turned phone off and on and seem to solve the problem but now after I edit a photo it freezes and doesn’t save. 2 weeks into owning the 16 pro max and it is by far the buggiest iPhone I’ve had. Any ideas or should I return the handset for a new one?

Yup it was happening to all the updated phones when I was in the store last weekend. Exactly how you described. Let’s you change the Live Photo but then when you go to edit the selected shot it would crash on the second adjustment.

I have the exact same problem on my 16 pro

max. It doesn’t look like a iOS version issue, I have the latest version on my other 14 pro, and when I edit a Live Photo there after changing the key photo, the app works perfectly. Not sure if this is an issue on all 16 line up.

I’ve been experiencing a ton of issues since I got my iPhone 16 pro. I’ve had it for a month now. Sometimes the issues go away, but then they come back. For photo editing, when I press shot, the whole photo app shuts down. A couple weeks ago, cropping photos kept shutting down the app. A week before that, adjusting color grade was shutting down the app.

Same issue happening here.

I found photo editing in iPhone 16 pro sooooo much worse than in my old 14 pro. Plus the camera app keeps having issues when taking multiple photos quickly. Very disappointed on how much worse the photo experience got in 16 pro.

I have the problem with the 18.1 latest update

I had the same problem. Spent 3 hours in the Apple Store. Tried several different phones and they all had the same problem. Try editing a photo after changing the initial photo in live and it would crash. I checked the display phones and they all did it too. Determined that the phones with the 18.0.1 all had the same exact problem. I ended up just returning the phone and going back to my old SE for now.

The bug seems to have been (quietly as usual with Apple) fixed in the iOS 18.1 update that was released yesterday. At least for me.

Having the same issue - any photo's taken on the iPhone16 Pro Max. So disappointing. One of the primary drivers for the upgrade was the camera. Now I can't edit the photos I take? Huh?

Any update on this? I’m having the same issue when trying to save edited Live Photos.

Same problem here with my IPhone 16 iOS 18 updated

The iOS 18.1 luckily solved the problem for me. Have you updated?

I have no such issues with my iPhone 16 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro Max. The battery on both phones is nothing short of amazing and to see, I just opened a live photo and had absolutely no issues editing it.

To suggest no one should buy one of the new iPhone's because you seem to be having an issue, when millions upon millions of them are now out in the wild is ridiculous.

this is fixed after 18.1 update