The styles option does not appear when I attempt to edit a photo in the photos app. I have a 16 pro max with the latest iOS update 18.0.1.
I do still show the filters, but not styles. What do I do?
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iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 18
I had the same issue. High Efficiency checked and style appears in Camera, but not in Photos.
Here is what fixed for me:
Go to Settings, and
Unchecking and re-selecting the High Efficiency mode appears to reset it, and the Styles edit function in Photos.
Hope this works for you.
I'm having the same problem intermittently and it's driving me crazy.
iPhone 16 pro on iOS 18.0.1
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.
same. it used to work. the last photo I took that has the edit style option in the Photos app was on 11/27 1pm et. all other photos I took after that no longer has the style edit option post-taking the photo. i updated my ios to 18.1.1 prior to this. it worked for a few days and now it’s not. high efficiency enabled, proraw off.
This started happening to me too, the night before last 12/31/24. No system update was involved. Any photos taken since then do not display the Styles option in Photos app Edit mode (Filters are displayed). All photos taken before that time do display the Styles option in Photos app Edit mode (Filters are not displayed). Styles is displayed in the Camera app.
Are you shooting Raw, JPEG or HEIF?
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.
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.
That was the answer for me! Thank you for your help. I wish we had a manual or YouTube video that explained more about the new changes with a little more depth. Maybe someone will eventually make one.
Thanks again!
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!!
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.
I went out yesterday and took 22 pictures in 21 minutes.
I am running iOS 18.1.1.
I DO NOT have Pro Raw turned on
I've restarted my phone. Many times.
Again, as I've replied before in this thread: this is driving me insane. I switched from an iPhone 11 Pro to 16 pro. It would be nice if I only had to deal with the bad computational photography.
The idea behind photographic styles is great and it really simplifies my workflow. Right now it works at random and although it's supposed to be non destructive, I cannot go back and remove it from the pictures I want.
So by disabling, enabling some random camera settings it seems to work for a while, until it doesn't. The annoying thing is that this weird workaround only works for new photos. So optimising shots I already made is sometimes not possible at all.
This is one of the flagship features of iPhone 16, especially in Europe where Apple AI is lacking. It is a shame.
Are you using an iPhone 16 Pro Max, Karla?
On some older models we can apply photographic styles directly in the Camera, but not modify them in Photos. The Photos.app will still show the good old Filters and not the photographic styles. frankly, I prefer the filters and are glad, that they are still available on my iPhone Pro Max.
I had switched the Camera’s aspect ratio from 4.3 to 16.9 and then back to 4.3, and I had adjusted the Exposure compensation setting for a few shots and a video at that time. I wonder if these setting changes caused this?
The styles option does not appear when I attempt to edit a photo in the photos app after iOS 18.0.1 update
