Since iOS 17 update, app images load slower

I have this exact same issue! I can’t text a photo from my photos app because it says preparing forever and then usually fails. My past photos are all blurry in my photos app like they aren’t loading. I can’t post photos to any social media apps because they just sit there and load. I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max and did the second iOS 17 upgrade last week and started having issues. Has anyone found a fix? It is so frustrating! Thank you!

I noticed this started after loading 17.1.1 on my 15 Pro. Here's what I am seeing:

• New camera shots cannot be shared. I get the "Preparing..." dialog and it ultimately times out with another dialog: "Unable to Share. There was an error while preparing to share."
• If I try it a second time on the same new photo, it eventually gets past the Preparing dialog and lets me share.
• Screenshots don't have this problem.
• Older photos don't have this problem.
• New photos are also slow to load in full res, sometimes up to 5 or 6 seconds.
• I DON'T sync photos to iCloud. All are stored on the phone.
• I'm now on 17.1.2. Same issue.

I am NOT prepared to reset network settings, location settings, or the entire phone. It doesn't seem like that would take care of this issue as it seems Photos related.

This seems to be a really bad issue. Hope it gets addressed ASAP.

This was the best thing in iphone. I could swipe hundreds of images in gallery without slowing down. now i see tons of black or white flickers . my ios is 17.1.1. PLS FIX IT. or else who knows what i'm going to do.

Update: 12/23/23 Spoke to Apple. Was told that there is no resolution at this time for this problem. So were are just stuck with phones that don't work properly. Hopefully enough people complain about this issue that the engineers expedite the fix.

same here! it is so frustrating especially when I’m trying to send pictures!! it takes forever and sometimes even is “unable” to send them. it even takes forever to edit pictures such as crop, markup, etc super annoying. I have an iphone 14 pro and now updated to ios 17.1.2 and still experiencing this issue. please fix this it is ridiculous!

Same thing here. I can’t share or edit… Often when I do get to load an image it’s very out of focus for quite a while. Usually when it says “loading” or “preparing” it just times out and fails. Very frustrating.

Still happening today.

Try loading iOS 17.2. Fixed it for me.

Totally same issue. I am on iphone 13 and all was well until I updated software to the 17.1.2 horror show. I have reset the phone and still have the same problem. Photos I took today also not syncing to cloud; not accessible via desktop imac running Sonoma 14.1.2.

I just loaded the newly released 17.2, and it looks like they may have fixed this issue!

Took a couple new camera shots, immediately tried to share them, and though the first time, I did get the "Preparing" dialog, it only lasted about one second before I was able to properly share the photo.

I tried it a second time, no dialog, but there was a bout a one second delay before allowing me to share it. I honestly don't remember it being instantaneous before - perhaps I'm more conscious of it now - but it seems pretty good now.

Would love to hear others' feedback after loading 17.2

PLS FIX ASAP

It has to be software not your phone hardware. As soon as I did iOS 17 I started having problems. Went to apple, they said all the reasons previously stated, but mostly due to memory and it being a iphone 13 max pro with 256g. He talked me into getting the 15 pro max with 1tb, the largest possible storage. Still exact same issue and it almost seems cellular reception bars are lower. That could be a T-Mobile issue but I’m seriously thinking of returning this 1600 phone. Very disappointing to say the least

Photos app says that synced 6:06 today, but it's definitely not true as the photos I taken yesterday not synced. I tried to rebbot phone, it sometimes helps, but now it doesn't.

That's insane I have the problem since iOS 17. I have sent 2 feedback to Apple, of course no any reply from them.

Is anyone know how to open a followable support ticket???? :(

Thanks.

What the heck is going on with this issue. Took my Iphone 13 Pro Max to the Apple Store and they knew nothing of this IOS 17 bug with the photo lag. Contacted Apple support online, same thing. I take photos for a living and this lag is crippling. Anyone have any updated fixes??

HEY GUYS ! GREAT NEWS !!

I just updated to ios 17.2.1 and I just checked my images in gallery. I think the images are loading fast like before. No more black frames while scrubbing through the images. I hope it stays fixed.

*My phone is 13 pro max with 256gb.