Missing apps in sharesheet iOS 18.1.1

I agree it is very annoying. I never use Safari, so Safari is not an issue for me though the problem happens there as well. It really doesn’t matter as it seems to be all apps have this particular problem except the stock photo app.

I have tried a whole bunch of stuff that I found everywhere online, but nothing seems to fix it. And uninstalling piles of applications in the hope that it will work doesn’t seem like an idea where to go.

Everything was working fine until one day that it wasn’t. I hadn’t done any system update. Although I do have a feeling that it could be one of the apps that broke this somewhere along the lines. But I have about 300 apps installed, and for the most part they all get updates relatively regularly. So trying to figure out which app it is will be next to impossible. I know for certain that it worked on November 2. I use an app to export a GPS file from one of my navigation software to dropbox. The next time I came to try it about two weeks later, it no longer worked. That’s when I noticed that nothing was working for any of my applications.

i’m hoping that iOS 18.2 will fix this problem.

I’m just hoping that this is a software bug. And that it’s going to be addressing iOS 18.2. I never realized how much I relied on this until I stopped working. The only way around for me is to copy links and then paste it into whatever software I want to share it to. Basically doing this manually. Which is a pain in the butt, but at least it works.

erasing all the settings doesn’t seem to be a viable solution. And I’m sure apple‘s next suggestion will be to set up the phone as a brand new phone. While this may fix the problem, it’s not something I wanna do. I don’t wanna lose 10 years worth of text history. i cannot export texts. I have a friend who passed away and I really don’t wanna lose the text messages from him

Do you mean that it doesn’t show up in the share sheet? Or that you’re not able to open the Notes app at all?

In my case it doesn’t show up in the share sheet either. Next to nothing does. Can you look at my original post with the screenshot that’s all you see. I still see a lot of app icons show up on the top bar the little square ones, but the ones that show up in the Gray section down below, there’s only like two or three items in there.

The only app where the share sheet seems to work without any problems and as it should, is the Photos app.

I would be able to understand that if it was only one application that wasn’t working or not showing up on the share sheet. The fact that nothing shows up is more of concern.

It is quite possible that a third-party app due to either an new install, or an update, with faulty code broke something. But if that is the case, then the problem is with share sheet, allowing bad code to mess it up.

in my case, I can narrow down to a two week. When the problem happened. However, there’s no way for me to know which app was installed or updated that could’ve caused this. If there’s a way for me to figure out what apps got installed or updated within that two week. I could simply uninstall them all and see if that fixes it. But I have something like 300 apps and a good chunk of them got updated in the last month. I’m not gonna uninstall half of my phone in the hopes that it fixes the problem.

i’m also not gonna set up my phone as a new phone. And lose 10 years of history. I have text messages that I don’t wanna lose. Stuff that cannot be exported.

Same thing with me. Never had this problem in over 10 years of having an iPhone.

In my case it started with iOS 17.6. I was on that version for a long time when all of a sudden this problem happened. I figured if I updated to 18.1.1 problem might go away. However, I was wrong with that assessment.

I’m hoping 18.2 next week may be helpful. I’ve been hearing mixed things. Some people say that it’s a known issue and it’ll be fixed in 18.2. Other people say when they call Apple that Apple insists that the problem with the third-party apps and not with them.

Apple, usual fix with the kind of problems is to reinstall your phone and to set up as new. For me that’s not an option. I don’t wanna lose 10 years worth of history.

I too have had this program for many years. An update in mid-November caused the problem. The fact that an app was able to cause this, to me, means that Apple has a bug that needs to be resolved. A 3rd party app should not be able to do cause such a problem. Of course TextMe has issues that need to be fixed as well.