Cannot text photos after updating to iOS 27

It would help to know more than "cannot text Photos."

How are you trying to text pictures? Do you go to Photos, select a picture, and use the Share menu? Do you drag and drop from Photos? Do you drag and drop from Finder? Do you use the Share from the drop down menu in Finder? Can you email pictures?

I just tested this, and had no issues sending a photo directly from the Photos App via Messages to another iPhone.

Same when sending it directly by adding the photo in Messages.

Both devices were using Wi-Fi, both on iOS 27.

I am experiencing this same issue. I have also forced restarted my phone, put it into airplane mode, disconnected wifi. This started after the update to IOS 27. This issue happens with picture messages to all devices (Apple OS or Android)

I have a related issue of a message with a photo saying it failed to send and having the red exclamation point but the recipient actually gets the message. Kind of irritating to have it say failed but it actually works. Have reset multiple times and nothing has resolved the issue.

I have an iPhone 16e and I still cannot send photos in my text messages. I've tried everything and nothing works. I made no changes to my phone prior to uploading the latest iPhone update. It's the update that has messed things up. Apple, please fix the problem.

I’m experiencing this too. Friends I’m sending messages and photos to who have recent iPhones and who I know updated to iOS27 are turned green, not blue.

I suspect this is a bug that got past the Apple QA team. I hope it gets fixed ASAP.

FredGFromCA wrote:

To Is it now a requirement to turn off my VPN to send messages or use other apps? If so, I will just switch to my Unix box and stop using my iPad.

Depends on your VPN, many don't provide updates to support OS versions without connectivity problems and many times security holes in the OS are closed by Apple in updates that were previously used by some VPN providers.

As for why you are using a VPN, that is a completely different topic. Many think they are providing Security and Privacy for the device, but actually the opposite can be true.

• https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
• https://overengineer.dev/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative/

Security and Privacy on your iPad is paramount to Apple. If a third party app that you see as essential is not working for you and there is no solution by the provider, then you will need to use another device that is supported by the VPN. If that means to stop using your iPad and use a Unix box, then that is exactly what you will need to do and your security and privacy will then be determined by the OS on that device.

I updated last night to the ISO 27.0.1 & I’m having the same problem others told you about back on 9/18. I cannot text photos from my camera because it times out. I tried what others suggested going to apps & turning off I message & then turning back on, turning phone off & back on again, yet it still doesn’t work. I never had a problem until this update. Please advise!!

This worked for me although turning off "find my phone " was a pain in the butt because apple makes nothing easy these days. Thanks for the info - i will delay apple IOS updates in the future until they make me - miss Steve Jobs running the ship

Just like the others I can't send text photos after the IOS 27 update. I hve tried every potential fix that my ISP provider, my phone carrier, and Apple Support has offered and nothing has worked. Apple's answer was that my Internet speed is too slow. I can access everything else, including the internet. Everything worked fine until the Apple update.

Of course, there’s a small downside: what you share is—get ready—no longer encrypted. Translation: What you send via RCS is no longer secure from someone seeing it. That’s not your fault. We can only hope that Apple developers can and will prioritize fixing this problem. Pretty please.

Yes, we tried it twice. Once with reboot, once without. The problem persisted.

I’m having the same issue on my 17 Pro. I also can’t send the same photos via Snapchat or anywhere else.

iOS 27 is full of surprises, glad it is working again 🙂