Cannot Share Photos in iOS 17

I was having this issue as well. Only way I got it to start working again:

1. Close out all apps.
2. Go into settings.
3. Click on the first tab under settings, it has your name / apple ID / iCloud
4. Scroll to the bottom and look for the red “Sign out” button (make sure you remember your info before clicking)
5. Click sign out.
6. Restart phone.
7. Go back into settings, click the first tab again and Sign back in.
8. Test your sharing.

Found a fix!

1/ Sign out of iCloud/Apple ID account

• click your name on the top of settings
• scroll to bottom

2/ Restart phone

3/ Check if sharing works (it should)

4/ Log back into iCloud

I've been experiencing this issue for a couple of weeks now.

I've tried restarting the phone numerous times without solving the problem. Resetting the network connection didn't help, nor did signing out. Removing WhatsApp didn't resolve the issue either. Updating to the latest versions of the applications and iOS didn't change the situation.

HOWEVER, signing out without keeping the data on the phone AND restarting the phone afterward seems to do the trick!

I'll continue observing the behavior of the sharing feature, but for now, it works as it should.

I own iPhone 11, ios 17.2.1

Is not beacuse IOS version (or not only).

On my Iphone 15 PRO this problem appear after I transfered via bluetooth the old phone data.

The only fix was to erase and restore from icloud instead bluetooth.

I wasn’t able to send a picture in text, I could receive them but not send them. tried all the suggestions down to completely resetting my phone turning it off and starting over. That did not work.

Finally:

1. turned off mms
2. turned on airplane mode
3. Powered down phone
4. powered phone on
5. turned off airplane mode
6. turned on mms

Now idk if you need to do all these things or even in this order but I had been trying everything for 6 hours and after I did the above in that order is when I could finally send a picture in text!

That did the trick. Not sure why it wasn't working after the ios update, but that fixed it. I tried restarting several times, but I guess logging out of icloud did the trick. Kind of a big bug for Apple to let slip by. Thanks!

I'm seeing this issue on wife's new iPhone 15 Plus / IOS 17.2.1 but not my iPhone 15 Plus IOS 17.2.1.

A large number of folk are reporting same issue in Apple Community. Resolutions range from what you and others have shared here to restoring the impacted iPhone from backup. The common step on all is doing a phone restart. So, I only did a restart and the issue was gone. All the other suggested actions appear to be "red herrings". Doing a restart resets any number of things including whatever causes this IOS bug. Apple needs to resolve the root cause of this bug, which unfortunately must come with a future IOS update.

P.S. Sadly, the phone restart is analogous to a MS Windows reboot/restart and the issue has been reported to appear again. We are waiting to see when/if this happens. Lastly, I am also reluctant to restore the phone from backup because IOS will at some point attempt an update to 17.2.1.

Apple needs to provide a fix.

Only thing that has worked for me, and is the least hassle to try, is simply as stated prior:

1. Disable MMS under messaging
2. Turn on airplane mode
3. reboot phone
4. turn off airplane mode
5. Turn on MMS
6. Wait about a minute
7. Then send pictures.

Hey Emmet and all.

Looks like iOS 17.2 has silently fixed this for me. Hopefully for you as well.

Thanks for raising the bug report.

I logged out and back into iCloud and it seems to be better?? It’s only been a day but it hasn’t recurred yet. Will report back!

Did you try update device

I am having the same issue on an 11 Pro. Can’t send pictures in text or Facebook Messenger without trying repeatedly for about 5 minutes per picture. I will try logging in and out of iCloud. I saw this happened on an iOS 14 update, too, and the fix was going in and out of airplane mode. I will try that as well.

Yeah. I have a ticket open, and their only solution was to do a full wipe from a desktop (or Apple Store) and set up as a new device, restoring app data from the cloud, not from backup. I am not going to do that, given that hundreds of ppl are reporting the same, it’ll be a waste of time. This is not an iOS install issue, it’s a bug. Maybe they’ll actually fix it someday.