In Settings>Privacy and Security>Photos, Safari shows Private Access as the only option and states "This app can show your photo library but can only access the items you select." I cannot find anywhere to select/deselect photos. All other apps show None, Limited Access or Full Access. I am missing something.
Can anyone shed some light?
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iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 17
The setting “Private Access” is perfectly fine. If you have trouble selecting photos from your Photo Library to upload to websites there might be another problem (like e.g. not seeing videos in the selector because the site would only take stills).
As the text for this “unchangeable setting” explains, it means that Safari and therefore websites by default have No Access to your Photo Library, it remains “Private”.
When you want to upload photos to a website from your Photo Library, you get a photo picker like the one for „Limited Access“ to select which photos the upload process will see at all. The only difference to „Limited Access“ is, that it does not remember your last choices but defaults to no photos selected for access every time. Hence the different naming „Private Access“.
This is by the way not new and exactly the way photo selection for certain apps like Browsers worked before (I assume since iOS 14). With iOS 17 only the presentation and wording of this function changed. Up to iOS 16 “Limited Access” showed as “Selected Photos” and Apps like Safari would be listed separately under the heading “Apps with One-Off Photo Selection”, see screenshot.
We had this problem before when running iOS 17.0.1, but after updating to iOS 17.1.1, the issue is no longer there.
i had this problem but all I did was update to 17.4 and it fixed everything. If you are dealing with this problem and is already on 17.4 try waiting for the next update and update your device
Hey!! I just had this problem and it started yesterday. This morning I contacted apple with this issue they couldn’t do much all they told me to do is going into my settings and do all these things that do NOT! work. They scheduled a phone call from, she told me to just contact the apps and they do not have anything to do with that. Which is all lies. This is how to solve it
Update that phone! Any other things might work but these are for the people that cannot find anything and tried everything. It’s a new update 17.3 if it still doesn’t work wait for another update which shouldn’t take anything but up to 2-3 weeks.
It’s not your storage, you not doing anything wrong and your phone is not broke! This is the solution to the problem :)
I FIGURED IT OUT!
Holy crap this mess-up with locking apps out of our own photo access is ridiculous & must have happened during the latest update.
For those of you insisting we are all too dumb to know how to toggle on/off access within our apps need reading comprehension. Many of us said over & over, the toggle access was NOT available in some apps like it was in others, which is the whole problem!
Here’s what I did, you won’t believe how ridiculous this is:
Settings> Screentime > Content & Privacy Restrictions toggle ON > Media & Apple Music toggle to ALLOW> Allow Changes toggle ON > toggle PHOTOS OFF!
Just restart your iPhone it will be fixed 😊
Are you getting this when you are low on storage?
I had under a couple gig left on my iPad when this thing showed up. I cleaned out a ton of junk and everything went back to how it was.
I believe this is a case of Apple trying to protect us from storage issues.? If this is the case a nice notification or explanation would be nice. Actually, it would just be common sense.
what you have to do is reboot the phone by pressing your power button for longer time, and slide the slider that appears on screen, then it should work. Or at least for me. Please give it a shot is you still have the same problem
Hi! I had the same issue and I got it fixed by contacting apple and they fixed the problem really quick. I texted them instead of calling and it was super easy :)
I talked to apple and basically its permeant and it can’t be removed
You may have to reset your network settings. It worked for me.
Tap Settings > General > Transfer or Reset [Device] > Reset > Reset Network Settings
I hope this helps.
Turn it off and on again…
Hi Saltie Dawg,
Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities! The following article can provide more information about these privacy settings work that can help:
About privacy and Location Services in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS
Hope this helps!
Have a great day.
Hi Saltie, my solution was to “hide” 🤷🏼♀️
Hide photos on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac with the Hidden album - Apple Support
i was ****** to yall until apple helped . Go to settings go to general , slide down & click transfer or reset iphone & press reset networks
Hello Lissy_12,
Thank You for your reply but unfortunately the link you provided does not address the question posed as addressed by applepie's response.
I apologize in advance if my second query seems simplistic but I think I might not have posed my question correctly.
I was asking;
Photo settings on iPhone's Safari stuck on “Private Access” with iOS 17
