I am not able to see any photos in library, not even in Recent Days even after someone has airdropped it to my phone. While airdropping it shows received how I cannot find it anywhere in library, tried looking in Recent Days as well. I believe this is happening post recent upgrade but not sure it was happening previously also. My phone is upto date and the source phone is also up to date.
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iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18
After you see the notification a photo has been received, did you ACCEPT the photo, which you must do in order to save it to your library?
If you have a shared library, is your photos app set to show both shared and personal?(tap your icon top RH corner)
Have you tried AirDrop from a different source, ie, from your Mac to your iPhone, or from a different iPhone? It may be a problem with the sender's iPhone. And/or it might be the shared photo itself, i.e., it has a .png extension but it's a corrupted file.
If you just receive an AirDrop, the place to find it would be Utilities>Recently Saved. Is that where you have looked?
The save date may not be anywhere near the captured date. The Library view could be set to sort by captured day. The Library view has filters that may be excluding the picture you're looking for. Have you checked all those?
gazala161 wrote:
Have accepted it and the photos were received as written on the original post. I mean I already know how airdrop works so that link is of no help to me. Thanks though.
We have to cover all bases, we assume you know what to do at our peril!
Only software can prevent you saving the airdropped images so you will have to go through your software portfolio to try and identify the culprit
Start with security software, eg VPNs, ad blockers which can be VPN based, any antivirus, none of the above being of any use at all
Then any photo editors, Photoshop, Google photos, microsoft photos etc.
After that uninstall any apps you really don't need that is image based.
gazala161 wrote:
What? Have been using iPhone for 8 years now, never heard of clicking on accepted post it has been received already, once you have click on accept and the media show as received, you don’t get an option of clicking on accepted again. As mentioned above, it was already received, to be more precise did the same process twice. I hope you also read that I anticipate that this might be after the recent upgrade. Also, I restarted my phone twice.
You never said in your first post that you actually accepted the AirDrop. I'm not a mind reader. When someone AirDrops something to me, I have to either Decline or Accept it. I was simply asking if you accepted it.
See this --> How to use AirDrop on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support
What? Have been using iPhone for 8 years now, never heard of clicking on accepted post it has been received already, once you have click on accept and the media show as received, you don’t get an option of clicking on accepted again. As mentioned above, it was already received, to be more precise did the same process twice. I hope you also read that I anticipate that this might be after the recent upgrade. Also, I restarted my phone twice.
Google photos has always been there in my previous phone, including this one. Same for editing apps also, have always been there, not sure how this will prevent anything as Airdrop suddenly after so many years.
gazala161 wrote:
Google photos has always been there in my previous phone, including this one. Same for editing apps also, have always been there, not sure how this will prevent anything as Airdrop suddenly after so many years.
There is no way of knowing if third party apps will continue to function after an iOS update. Is Google Photos your main photo storage, or it runs side by side with iOS Photos app?
I do not have a shared library.
gazala161 wrote:
I do not have a shared library.
Can you see all the other recent photos?
If you screen shot a page can you see it in Recents?
100%, I can see all the recent photos even whatever I screenshot, only an issue with the airdropped ones
Have accepted it and the photos were received as written on the original post. I mean I already know how airdrop works so that link is of no help to me. Thanks though.
Yes, I saved a photo from G drive earlier today which apparently gets saved in the Recent Days.
Definitely the corrupted photos are not corrupted because we were able to send it to other iPhones via the same sender’s phone. Let me try with my old iPhone or some other phone and see if it works.
Why can't I find AirDropped photos on my iPhone?
