My photos turned into blue negatives

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My photos turned into blue negatives

After opening photo library on newly-acquired iphone SE 3rd gen, all my photos turned into blue negative looking images.

I found comments the Community discussion (some very old) commenting on similar problems, and also through web searches. It seems that the Smart Invert feature meant to enhance desktop appearance can sometimes affect photos, although it's not supposed to. The fix for me was to go to Settings > Accessibility > (scroll to bottom) > Per App > Add app, add Photos > (scroll down to) Smart Invert, turn off.

I did the same for Safari, as photos in the browser were also blue.

iPhone SE, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 22, 2024 01:29 PM

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Dec 23, 2024 01:25 AM in response to D-138

Wow, I am very impressed with your articulation of a real issue that I would have never thought of trying to tackle and Apple Support is just pathetic as they don’t know anything about well, anything. I think you should lead them and school them on innovative solutions and how to discover the vast emptiness of everything Apple.

thanks for being so thoughtful and creative and you circled back and let everyone know precisely how you figured it out and carefully crafted an answer that would have stumped all them at The Anointed Apple demigods. Or so they thought???

kudos! Nailed it.

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Dec 23, 2024 07:12 AM in response to Moxie_Sourcer

Thanks for the kind words, Moxie. I hope it helps others who are feeling blue about their photos. BTW, I first tried just turning Smart Invert totally off which fixed the pics, but did degrade desktop appearance in dark mode, so Per App is the way to go for me.

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Dec 23, 2024 01:37 AM in response to D-138

Oh, FYI. I just reported the post to Apple with paying a compliment to the author and that they could learn a lot by your example.

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