What causes Black Boxes in iPhone 16 Pro Photos?

My iphone 16 pro with OS 18.0.1 is 1 week old and today when i was taking photos there were a few photos that came out with random black strips/boxes instead of having 100% photo (think: my face is covered with a black box but everything else is fine).

connection not an issue - checked
OS is the latest
icloud photo showing the same thing
when sent to other iphone device also showing the same thing

is this a hardware issue?

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iPhone 16 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Oct 14, 2024 7:50 AM

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Marc Cannava

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Posted on Oct 30, 2024 2:34 PM

It's not a hardware issue as far as I can tell, I'm having the exact same issue with my new iPhone 16 Pro Max and iOS 18. I'm updating to 18.1 now to see if this is addressed.

The reason I don't think it's hardware is that if you go into the photo editor, edit the photo either on the desktop or on the phone, and change the key photo from the default one to any of the others, you'll see the original picture again. Sometimes some of the other key photos are also filled with black boxes but you can usually find one or several that don't. This makes me think that the picture is getting captured, but is being corrupted somehow during the storage/processing/upload process.

Anyway, it's not just you. And, it's really annoying.

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