Camera for iPhone 12 Pro Error - RAW Photos are corrupt after IOS 18 update

I have been having this issue but I think I found the problem. Turn off High Efficiency in the format options. I set mine to Most Compatible. I can now take RAW photos and the corruption is gone. The error about not being able to load as a better quality photo is loading is gone also. The HEIF/HEVC formats are busted with the 18 and 18.1 iOS release.

I personally do not want my RAW photos compressed in anyway so I'm glad this worked. To test out my theory, I set it back to High Efficiency and the corruption returned and I could not load the photo. Switched it back to Most compatible and the error disappeared again, and I could load the photo. So it's my believe the corruption and loading errors are due to the High Efficiency mode. The iOS update to 18 must have broke that.

Anyway, give what I said a shot and let me know if it works for you in this post also!.

As described in latest developments: after update to 18.1 issue appeared to be solved.

So, you should proceed with such an update and things should be back to normal.

Good luck.

I encountered same problem, but finally succeeded today, using Photo app by Microsoft (pre-installed in my Windows): select as autoplay option >>> download photos with Photo and do not select "erase after downloading" option (dowloading was immediately aborted when the box was checked).

Downoading was finally successful and smooth.

Good luck!

Another very important thing, I just found out: previously shot RAW picture which were invisible, which I had deleted (but kept on occupying memory space, as I described) suddendly appeared in a special "recovered photos" folder.

This folder will show in your Photo app, among the other folders. Once you select them and click on the recover option, you will have them back!!!

Even if that proves existing fault to depend on visualization features, not acquisition/processing ones, God bless Apple for succesfully dealing with problem!

Yes, same thing is happening to me: close-up pictures are created, but not those portraying landscapes, making this bug quite puzzling and disturbing, since I am a professional photographer specialized in landscapes and having a dedicated site.

From what I can infer, when information data to be processed becomes large, it seems to overwhelm processing capacity of phone and we have some type of crash. It is however mysterious why system was just working perfectly before update and what 18.0 did to mess it up, therefore I suspect only a new update could undo the problem, where 18.0.1 did not succeed.

Tried downloading from laptop and it is very difficult: downloading process only starts in rare occasions and, even in that case, it freezes soon afterwards, as phone gets disconnected.

It is not a random event: it is directly related to RAW files (.dwg): when other files are downloaded, process goes on smoothly.

We need this fixed too!!!

I tot my i12pro broke or somethin, turns out the OS is the problem 😭

turning off the RAW then can take photos normally, if RAW on, the photo failed to load or appear in white. If taking photo with too much light or colours. Possible with 0,5 and 2x. But 1x definitely fail.

Same issue here, doesn’t seem to always happen but seeing it more when I’m taking landscape shots. JPEG all fine, blank icons when RAW

I have exactly the same problem with my 12 Pro Max after the iOS 18 update. Still the same in 18.0.1. I have turned RAW off in the moment, after a lot of nice sunset pictures I took went out as black unusable files.

I share identical problem, also aggravated by the trouble encountered in downloading iTunes on my laptop (I finally succeeded only thanks to a link provided to me by an Indian guy in Microsoft support) and by the impossibility to have my phone recognized by ITunes itself. I am also a professional photographer, like another member posting in this section, and RAW is essential for me and main reason for using an IPhone, so I ask anyone in the forum and Apple itself to help!

There is another observation I would like to share: following deletion of all pictures which had gone black after shooting (in order to free memory space) I noticed that an unaccounted amount of 10 gigabytes space was left occupied in phone and there was no way to have it restored, in spite of the several manouvers suggested by support.

I suspect that as corrupted files are not readable, also they become not erasable, only to aggravate problem.

This is another issue demanding a prompt solution