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gypsyeyes42 Author

Level 1

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Some new photos in Camera Roll are all just black, after recent upgrade to iOS 7.

I upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 7 yesterday, and the photo app was working fine. But today, I took a few pictures, and the first 4 are viewable, but the last bunch just show up as all black when I try to veiw them full screen.

Here's the details: In the Photos app Camera Roll grid/thumbnail screen, the photos are visible, but when I tap on a picture to view it in full screen, it's just a black box where the photo should be. In the Photo Stream grid/thumbnail screenI had the HDR setting on, so it duplicated all the pics (normal & HDR). I also had a "CHROME" filter on. But like I said, the 1st 4 pics I took were fine, & then about 1/2 hr later, the following pics I took show as only black boxes. What's going on, & how do I fix this?

(I read on a blog that this black-photo problem was happening to people during beta testing, but this is not a beta version of the iOS 7, I upgraded when the rest of the planet did.)

Here are screenshots...

Camera Roll grid shows all photos...

Photo Stream grid shows some black photos...

This photo was taken this morning, & can be viewed full screen just fine...

This photo was taken 1/2 hr later, & when tapped for full screen view, is just black... (the "normal" version is black too.)

Please help! Thanks!

iPhone 4S, iOS 7, Photo Stream Camera Roll black pics

Posted on Sep 20, 2013 9:27 AM

77 replies

db.lieb

Level 1

0 points

Feb 6, 2015 12:10 PM in response to gypsyeyes42

This began happening to me out of the blue about a week ago, and I finally figured out a solution, albeit an unsatisfying one as it's time-consuming and defeats the immediacy of just seeing the photos as they're taken. I found that if I tap the black, touch edit, and touch the wand icon in the upper right-hand corner, the picture comes up. Then I just hit "done." It's annoying! And it doesn't work on the photo stream, which is now also all black.

Nov 24, 2015 7:16 AM in response to gypsyeyes42

Hey everyone,

I was having this issue on Mac iOS in 'Photos', but only with one photo I was editing into black and white with 'adjustments'...from then the thumbnail and eventually the image would be a solid black image, even when exporting.

My workaround was to achieve black and white using a filter (instead of adjustments), which didn't trigger the problem 🙂

Simon

Some new photos in Camera Roll are all just black, after recent upgrade to iOS 7.