iPhone 4s images show up as all black in iPhoto

Ronniegt wrote:

Me too. One way I've found to make the photos appear, is to click the black square (photo) and go to edit. The photo will then appear! All you need to do is edited it in anyway and it will appear in your iphoto albums! A lot of trouble, but at least you have your photo back.

This method works for me as well, however I got a lot of these and more are created. Can any of you guys talk to Apple Genius? I do not live in a country with Apple Stores so I cannot get this resolved. I tried to erase my photos, delete and re-install iPhoto, still suffering from the same error. BTW- could it be that we are all using MacBook Air, i5 latest model?

I have a MacBook Pro.

Did this ever get fixed? I am experiencing exactly this (iPhone 4 / MacBook Air 15"). Editing the black pictures displays the original which implies the problem lies with iPhoto displaying the thumbnails.

I'm sure one of those super-cool, tatooed, pierced genius guys (or gals) could resolve this in an instant...

I also have a last gen macbook air i5 but seems to be happening to other macs as well.

I thought It had been fixed since it stoped happening to me for a long time, but today it happened again... so no fix yet. (Maybe because it's so few of us?!?!)

Btw you don't need to keep the edited photo. After you edit the photo, close the edit tools, press to edit again and then "Revert to original", so now you have the original non edited photo, without all the blackness.

The problem only happens to me with pictures taken in portrait orientation on my iPhone or iPad. Here is the quickest way I have found to fix it.

In iPhoto, select one or more "black" photos and click Edit. In edit mode, click Rotate 4 times (i.e. 360º rotation). Select the next photo, and Rotate 4 times. Do this for each photo. Then click <Photos to exit edit mode.

All the "edited" photos should now appear.

Same issue here. But it would take hours to edit each photo. I might turn to Picasa now.

What a joke.

Why can't the world's most valuable corporation produce a photo software tool, compatible across it's own two operating systems, that is free of trivial glitches like this, not to mention the archaic and paternalistic Apple proprietary file stucture, etc.??

Based on my experience this has nothing directly to do with Photostream. I don't use Photostream and had this same problem. Fixed the photos by editing them but don't want to continue having the same issues with photos from my iPhone. I have changed no equipment between having photos with no problems and then having problems. The only changes I can remember making are (1) updating the iPhone software and (2) updating iPhoto. Don't know which of these caused the problem or whether it was a combined effort by both.

I'm on 10.7.3, have put off the next system update til now.

This website has a way to fix the problem. It's a little labor intensive but relatively simple (even for someone as technology challeged as me) and safe since you don't risk deleting anything. It's been working for me!

http://www.icloudhowtoblog.com/fix-black-photos-in-photostream-with-iphoto-issue /index.html

That method doesn't work for me. Rotating any pic four times doesn't solve the black image issue, since I think iPhoto reads it as 'not changed'. Instead, I use Retouch, setting it to the smallest possible brush and clicking on an innocuous area. Works every time, but I have to do this with each photo individually.

This whole problem only began when I was on vacation last week. I think it had to do with not having wi-fi access or a strong 4G signal, so Photostream couldn't deliver the full pic info.

Hi,

I faced the same problem.

It seems to be a bug in Camera App and IOS7.

I have a workaround for this problem.

Open the photo in edit mode. Change the effect to none and save the photo. Then, reopen the photo in edit mode. Reset the effect to the original effect and save the photo.

Kudos buddy, your photo is fixed.

I hope this workaround works for you.

Enjoy !! 😀

Hi,

I did everything about editing and stuffs and even I went to apple store and told me to do backup and reset it to factory settings and restore it back up but nothing happened. Photos are just completely black. Any help please. 😟

Hi,

I did everything about editing and stuffs and even I went to apple store and told me to do backup and reset it to factory settings and restore it back up but nothing happened. Photos are just completely black. Any help please. 😟

Hi,

I did everything about editing and stuffs and even I went to apple store and told me to do backup and reset it to factory settings and restore it back up but nothing happened. Photos are just completely black. Any help please. 😟

Is this a joke?

I have exactly the same problem

Tried everything in this forum and nothing works.... 1000 pictures are black, are taking space in the phone and i wasted a lot of time...

the Lumia from my wife actually takes better quality photos and even if it's difficult to transfer them to the computer at least i haven't lost a lot of important pictures

Shame for Apple and these long lasting bugs