The styles option does not appear when I attempt to edit a photo in the photos app after iOS 18.0.1 update

I am having the exact same problem. Received my iPhone 16 pro (iOS 18.01) on September 30 by mail. The styles option does not show up in the photos app. Instead, the photo app has the filters option. To be clear, the styles option does show up and works in the camera app, but just not the photos app. So, I can't edit styles after the picture as been taken. Help! Need to fix this.

Even with high-efficiency turned on I still can’t adjust the photographic style of my photo after I shot it. All that shows up is filters

In order to have the styles option under a photo in your photos app, you must have your camera set to shoot in high efficiency, and not in most compatible. Go to settings, scroll down to camera, scroll down to formats, and make sure high-efficiency is checked and not most compatible. You will then have the styles option under your photo in your photos app..

I guess people aren’t understanding, I was able to edit with the styles when I first got my phone as I’m sure the others were also. My camera is set on high efficiency, so that isn’t the answer. I can take a picture using the styles, but not edit them. I guess I hadn’t taken any pictures since the update?? Fix it back the way it was Apple!!

I'm having the same problem intermittently and it's driving me crazy.

iPhone 16 pro on iOS 18.0.1

• High Efficiency camera capture
• 24mp photo mode
• HEIF Max format

I would take a picture at 2x at home and I can't edit the photographic style right after. I go outside later and take another picture at 2x and I can edit it in Photos right after I take the picture. I get back home open that same picture again and I can't edit the photographic style anymore. 1x pictures don't seem to be affected by this problem as much. 0.5x, 2x and 5x all seem to have a mind of their own. Sometimes they can be edited even days after taking the picture, sometimes only right after and sometimes I can't even edit it right after taking the picture.

This is yet another feature I cannot seem to get even though my husband has the same phone and his appears. I got my phone first, his came a week later-is there a difference in the earlier phones? I am beginning to wonder. My stickers do not work, I do not have the styles option, I bought this phone for all these types of features...no end in sight on a fix. I regret buying the 16 pro more each day, my phone feels-not finished.

I have an iPhone 12, and it apparently doesn't do styles. But I found this:

Use Photographic Styles with your iPhone camera - Apple Support

You guys probably know all this, but where in the process does it go wrong?

Stephappens, you're in an especially useful place, because you can compare with a phone that works. I've heard of some other effects that differ between similar phones in iOS 18. Maybe more information will help someone figure it out.

Another option is to talk to someone at Apple Support. I've had good luck with them helping me.

Again, I have an older camera that doesn't do styles, so I have no experience with this. But Apple's documentation, even from several operating systems back, refers to Styles as an in-Camera effect:

you can apply a Photographic Style that customizes how Camera captures photos.

There's no mention of Styles being in the Photos app.

JimGustafson wrote: In order to have the styles option under a photo in your photos app, you must have your camera set to shoot in high efficiency, and not in most compatible.

Never would have guessed! Thanks!

Same here, and mine is so weird it works for the photo i take at 14p.m.

and the next photo i take at 18 p.m. the photographic style edit function disappeared.

and I didn’t change any setting or update my phone during this time.

Absolutely the same. All the right settings enabled. And even the sams shot, but different pictures in a difference of few seconds - one has the Style edit in photos, after clicking the "Edit" button - and the other picture does not. High efficiency, blah blah blah - everything is set correct according to Apple. And it still does not work. What the actual...? Why did I pay 1,5k € for this android level nonsense? 18.1 iOS.

Thanks for the feedback. Styles do work in some 16 pros in the photo app. I've seen several you tube videos showing this. I suspect it works in iOS 18.0 but not iOS 18.01 for some reason.