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
I has a very similar problem. When I check Settings>Privacy>Photos, I had a single app that only had two options available to select -- None, Add Only.
I was able to solve this problem, by going to Settings>General>iPhone Storage and selecting the app in question, and choose the offload option which deletes the app, but retains its data. After reinstalling the app, all options became visible.
Note, this only became a problem for me with iOS 17.01
After following through the thread since it was opened, there is no communication from Apple on this, thus clearly suggesting there is a problem and apple knows about it. what is not clear why apple is silent on it.. had it been simple configuration issue, apple would have responded but surely there is something more serious than that... apple silence is deafening.
vb_ wrote: "...what is not clear why apple is silent on it..."
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what it means is if you edit it before so go on photos click on the photo you want click on edit and edit it like give it a few changes then apply and go back to the site make sure the select photo is still open then a photo will appear and shows the one you edit
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Yeah this is horrible. None of my apps will access any photos and “Private Access” is the only option on settings and is grayed out and unselectable. At first I could select the photo from the Photos app and then choose where to share it. But now a warning always pops up and send me to settings where I can’t change anything that makes a difference.
Has Apple even responded here? I
can’t find any responses from them. I called Apple a couple of weeks ago re this. Their solution was to reset my phone…..uh no thanks, I knew it wasn’t just my phone. That’s always their standard answer.
Sooooo this just **** me offf . I wake up to me not being able to use my snap i do streaks wtf . Then go on instagram cant even post nun of my videos / photos!! Apple needa do better ! This drove me to the MAX! i will be callin the company . This is why yall are losing customers cause of the dumb **** yall do .
April 2024 and this is still an issue. I use an app called Phonto. The entire purpose is to put text over photos. Im an author, and I use this app to create/draft ideas for my book covers. It can not access ANY OF MY PHOTOS because “Private Access” is my only option.
Apple, fix this.
hello, Since yesterday. My phone decided to put all apps including discord to private access. I cannot figure out why this happened, if anyone has a solution please tell me. This unchangeable setting is really annoying and it also happened randomly.
same here like what is the purpose of this setting. No browser should have access to your photos, especially when we wouldn’t authorize permission in the first place, not like how yall gone remove the right /option for the people to allow or deny access to photos. this is ludicrous!!🤬🤬
Hi applepie,
I reposted my question to Lisa_12. Thanks for the screen shot.
Is it possible its because you’ve used safari to access your photos in iCloud.com?
You are right, the RC ios17 also fixed this issue but it came back again with ios 17.1 GA.
Did you ever get a fix? My phone gave me the update today and it’s happened to me
It didn't for me. Rather the private access has expanded to more than one app.
17.1.1 did not change this for me!!! What the h___ is going on??????
Photo settings on iPhone's Safari stuck on “Private Access” with iOS 17
