You could use the visible on style from this great answer. Note the proposed style is now provided by the aobs-tikz package.
Instead of setting opacity to 0 just set it to another value that fits your need (I do not know the default opacity that beamer uses.
\documentclass[10pt]{beamer}
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{
invisible/.style={opacity=0.3},
visible on/.style={alt=#1{}{invisible}},
alt/.code args={<#1>#2#3}{%
\alt<#1>{\pgfkeysalso{#2}}{\pgfkeysalso{#3}} % \pgfkeysalso doesn't change the path
},
}
\newcommand{\includegraphicswithwisibility}[3]{
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node[visible on={#1}] at (0,0) {\includegraphics[#2]{#3}};
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\mode<presentation> {
\usetheme{Frankfurt}
}
\usepackage{graphicx} % Allows including images
\setbeamercovered{transparent}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}
\begin{block}{t}
test
\end{block}
%
\pause
\begin{block}{t}
test
\end{block}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphicswithwisibility{<1->}{width = 0.2\textheight}{example-image}
\caption{1}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}
\includegraphicswithwisibility{<2->}{width = 0.2\textheight}{example-image}
\caption{2}
\end{figure}
\end{frame}
\end{document}

EDIT
To use the aobs-tikz functionnalities, replace
\usepackage{tikz}
\tikzset{
invisible/.style={opacity=0.3},
visible on/.style={alt=#1{}{invisible}},
alt/.code args={<#1>#2#3}{%
\alt<#1>{\pgfkeysalso{#2}}{\pgfkeysalso{#3}} % \pgfkeysalso doesn't change the path
},
}
with
\usepackage{aobs-tikz}
\tikzset{invisible/.style={opacity=0.3}}
as aobs-tikz loads tikz. However the package defines the invisible style as invisible/.style={opacity=0,text opacity=0} hence the re-definition of the style.
beameroverlay options like<*>(see the documentation for more explainations). Short explaination if you want to see somenthing between visible between stepiand stepjtype<i-j>first and last may be omitted. For the 2*2 figure, you can usesubfigureenvironments to place the graphics – BambOo Sep 23 '19 at 19:07