Black squares and rectangles sometimes appear in the photos in the gallery during the day after shooting. They take a third photo or more photos. Everything is fine during the shooting. Updates are installed by the latest ones proposed by the system. Photo synchronization with iCloud is disabled.
When editing a photo on an iPhone, the black rectangle increases
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iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 18
la_leri wrote: …The IPhone memory is free 465 GB out of 512 GB.
The media library is not synchronized with ICloud. I turned off photo synchronization
Your phone's pretty full, but not enough to have this sort of effect. Have you tried a forced restart?
Force restart iPhone - Apple Support
This is different from a simple Power Off. I had to continue holding the button down past the "slide to power off" message, and then I released the button only after the Apple Logo appeared indicating a re-start.
Is it possible that you have used some apps that have had access to the camera? Do you use anything sort of apps that profess to clean up or speed up your phone?
I've seen others bring this up, but I don't think I've seen solutions. Do you have an Apple Store nearby?
A black square appears on the original photo without editing. If you edit the photo in the built-in iPhone editor, the black square increases.
I opened this photo on a Windows laptop and it's completely black. The format of this photo on the laptop is jpg. Photographic styles are disabled, the standard is installed.
And if I edit the photo on the iPhone, I see that there is an image behind the black squares.
I haven't seen this on my 16. I wonder, how much free space do you have available in your iPhone storage? Having less that 10% free can cause weird things to happen.
Do you use iCloud to synchronize you Photos Library? Do you use Optimize Storage?
I haven't tried restarting before. iPhone 16 pro max was completely cleared to factory settings, but the squares still appeared. Now 16 went for diagnostics and I use IPhone 14 Pro Max, and black squares also appeared on it. I tried rebooting, the square didn't disappear. The feeling that I'm doing something wrong 🙁
Social media applications and video processing applications have access to the camera and media library. I didn't install any applications for cleaning or speeding up.
la_leri wrote: … Social media applications and video processing applications have access to the camera and media library.
That's interesting. Do you think you could dump one of those apps at a time to see if they had any effect? I'm thinking that's a difference between your phone and mine…
Does it make sense to disable access to photos in Telegram and other social networks? This will be inconvenient to use, as I send photos via telegram.
Thank you very much for your interest in solving the issue 🙂
Have you tried to find out if the black squares are only appearing in edited versions of your photos? You may want to try to revert the problematic photos to the original. This will tell you, if the squares are caused by damaged data, for example transmission errors. I have seen such large black blocks when image files get damaged, that are in a highly compressed format, like JPECs or HEIC files. These formats are not having much redundancy, so a single flipped bit can cause a lot of damage. such damage could be caused by transmission errors or by a defective memory.
As the problem is appearing right after taking the photo, make sure, that no photographic stiles are applied by the camera.
Do you have another device, for example a computer? Then try to transfer the original image file to the computer to check, if the original is damaged or the rendering or display of your iPhone is causing the problem.
As a second test, transfer photo, that is looking fine on your computer to your iPhone, to check, if the iPhone can display the photo correctly.
la_leri wrote: Does it make sense to disable access to photos in Telegram and other social networks? This will be inconvenient to use, as I send photos via telegram.
Of course, if you can't take pictures, then what's the point? I'd say disconnect these apps for awhile, and see what happens. You can hook them up again later.
la_leri wrote: … Black rectangles sometimes appear only once a month, the rest of the time everything is fine.
So weird. Try to free up more storage on the phone. This really random crazy stuff is the sort of thing that low storage space can cause-- maybe combined with other things, like interaction with other apps. If you can get 100
GB free, then you'll know that's not the problem.
The IPhone memory is free 465 GB out of 512 GB.
The media library is not synchronized with ICloud. I turned off photo synchronization
I'll try, thank you. Not all photos spoil in the gallery, only 1-5 pieces. Black rectangles sometimes appear only once a month, the rest of the time everything is fine.
Why are there black squares in my iPhone photos?
