Why are there vertical grey bars on my imported photos?

Connect the iPhone to your Mac with its USB cable and launch Image Capture. Download a few of the "problem" photos to a folder on the Desktop and open them with Preview. Do they display correctly or show the same problem?

This is a very interesting problem that behaves differently on various Macs. I have two iMacs (El Capitan), one "without the grey bar" one with the grey bar, the same with Lightroom. On the "grey bar" iMac also the lightroom photos import with the grey bar, while on my older 2010 iMac they don`t. Same with my Mac Mini and my MacBook pro and air, the same photos come out clean without the grey bar. I have reinstalled my iPhone (6S+, 128 GB, iOS 9.3.1)

I am getting these corrupted images after importing from an iPhone6 to Photos 1.5 on OS 10.11.6

Fortunately, I do not select Delete after Importing so I still have the uncorrupted images on the phone. I've gone back with Image Capture and confirmed that I can download the images, without corruption, onto the Mac. However, I'd like to go back into Photos and force it to re-import the images from the phone. How do I trick Photos into thinking that there are new images to import?

Try deleting the damaged photos from your Library and then reconnect the iPhone and see if it will import again. Since they are not in the library they should be recognized by Photos as new. If they import corrupted again read the following:

Photos 1.5 is an older version and the new version, 2.0 that comes with Sierra has many new features, bug fixes as does the system. I suggest you upgrade to Sierra, delete the corrupted photos from the library and try importing from the camera again.

Otherwise try importing the good versions you downloaded with Image Capture.

Good suggestions, thanks. I have been putting off Sierra, but will go ahead with that soon.

Unfortunately, just deleting an image does not make Photos think that the version on the phone is new again and will not try to import upon reconnection of the phone. The image data must get written to a database somewhere so that Photos does not keep trying to go back and import all the old photos you've deleted over time if they still exist on the phone. Oh well. I've been going back and manually importing each broken image with ImageCapture. VERY time consuming, but works as a solution.

I had the exact same problem and was able to solve it by:

1. Logged out of the username and logged back in

2. Turned off Time Machine backup

3. Unplugged my iPhone from my iMac

4. Since I still have the photos on my phone, I deleted all the photos with gray lines from Photos. Then went to "Recently Deleted" and deleted the photos from there as well.

5. Plugged my iPhone back into the iMac. Selected my phone under "Import".

6. Chose smaller batches of 300-500 photos at a time to import.

7. Photos were imported again - This time without the gray lines.

I had the exact same problem and was able to solve it by:

1. Logged out of the username and logged back in

2. Turned off Time Machine backup

3. Unplugged my iPhone from my iMac

4. Since I still have the photos on my phone, I deleted all the photos with gray lines from Photos. Then went to "Recently Deleted" and deleted the photos from there as well (this is how you "trick Photos into thinking that there are new images to import")

5. Plugged my iPhone back into the iMac. Selected my phone under "Import".

6. Chose smaller batches of 300-500 photos at a time to import.

7. Photos were imported again - This time without the gray lines.

Thanks.

After deleting the corrupted images, I was still not able to trick Photos into thinking that there were new photos on the iPhone to import. But, using Image Capture, I went back and individual, and in small batches, re-import all of the problem images from the phone. I'm so glad I don't use "Delete after Import."

This drove me crazy til today. I'm an avid photographer. No way to get my pics onto my iPad except via email. most of pics have black lines on the right side ruining my future posts. I found a couple of "sometimes works" fixes and then I discovered this today.

Download Photoshop Express. It's free from Adobe. Simple pull your bad pics in, resave them, and viola, lines magically disappear. As a matter of fact, when you're selecting the pics from your gallery, they don't even appear!!

I Have no idea what's up with the iPad. Looks like the files are actually undamaged, but for some reason the iPad is showing and posting them damaged. Strange.

I Hope this helps all of you frustrated photographers like me. Purely coincidental that I stumbled on this today.

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a couple of things to try - revert to the original and see if that resolves this

If not export the unmodified original (file menu ==> export) and check it in Preview - it should be fine - if it is then import the export image and delete the bad image - hopefully that will resolve this for you

LN

export the unmodified original (file menu ==> export) and check it in Preview

to verify when you export the unmodified original and open it in Preview you still have the gray bars? Then either your original is corrupt of your graphics card is bad

LN

It appears the problem is that the photos were damaged/corrupted on the iPhone.

Getting the exact same problem. Some photos imported from iPhone. They have the grey bar with the icon at the top of the grey bar. Any suggestions? Tried rebuilding iPhoto library.

Does the gray strip show when you download a photo directly from the iPhone to the Desktop and view it with Preview?