CR3 Previews Not Working in Finder After macOS 15.4 and 15.4.1 Updates

It does help, if you actually zoom out it displays the preview.

We should have the new macOS update this coming week that will fix the preview issue.

bezanson wrote:

I have a Canon R6 MII and have the same issue where QuickLook is broken in macOS 15.4.x. I submitted a report to Apple as well.

Can you check this Canon R6 Mark II sample gallery and see if any of the RAW files work for you?

opino igual, pero me han dicho en apple que tenemos que ponernos en contacto *** canon para que lo habiliten ellos, me suena rarísimo pero eso me han dicho, que el resto estan obligados a actualizarse *** las actualizaciones de apple

I use a Pentaxk1 and I've encountered the same problem as well with my MacBook pro. I can look at individual DNG photos with the preview app but not the quick look option. This is cumbersome, of course. My workaround for now is to open batches in Lightroom to preview and then import to Photoshop from there. This bypasses the RAW editor, tho, so any immediate edits I have to do in LR, which has never been my favorite.

I'm glad to see Apple is aware of the issue. Hopefully there's a fix soon as I shoot and edit daily.

Update: changing the display to photography worked!

I just ran into this same issue Cr3 files, from my Canon R5. I am running MacOS 15.5, MacBook Pro 13" M1. I found a workaround which is in Bridge, right click and open the file in Camera Raw from there I can open the file into Photoshop. (26.7.0). I downgraded Photoshop to 26.6 same issue. All my other files are fine at this point CR2, and Jpeg..

Perhaps https://apps.apple.com/us/app/camera-rawx/id6587554858?mt=12

My CR2 and CR3 previews are working with Sequoia 15.5.

I have the same issue after this recent Sequoia update. I'm using CR3 files from my Canon R7 and quicklook is really vital for my workflow. You *can* see the image, if you manually zoom in a bit, but if you zoom back out again, it returns to a black window. I've submitted a bug report to Apple.

What is not working? Quicklook or preview being black on column mode in finder? This solution/workaround is for quicklook showing a black image, not the preview....

If your issue is with quicklook, here are some things to check...

1. Are you on 15.4.1 or 15.4? (This works on 1.5.4.1 - don't have 15.4 to check)
2. Did you switch to Photography profile specifically?
3. After switching to Photography sometimes a restart is needed.

I have an M2 Max macbook pro, but this worked both on mine and my friend's M1 Pro Macbook Pro. Let me know if it works for you.

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I have the same problems with the same symptoms - CR3 files in column view in finder show as a black box. Changing the dimensions of the window makes the image appear but if you move away and return to the file it is a black box again.

Something that has not been mentioned before is that if the file is stored elsewhere, the problem does not seem to occur. I use Dropbox and .CR3 files that are only stored on Dropbox do not seem to be affected.

MacBook Air M2, macOS 15.4.1

The same problem occurs with NEF (Nikon raw) files (macOS 15.4 and 15.4.1).

There are many different NEF and CR3 file formats depending on which Canon and Nikon models. Which models do you have? Did you send Apple a bug report from the feedback page?

Feedback - macOS - Apple

Hard to understand why apple does not check this important function before releasing any update.

works with CR2 files, RW2, ARW, IIQ - not with CR3 and RAF

This is the answer. Bridge is great and fast. You can also view in full screening when culling while in the preview mode I could never et full screen.