Why won't my iPhone send pictures via email?

I was having this problem as well. I found the problem to be...

The email account I have on my phone is a Gmail account which i dont actually use that much.

In trying to assess what the problem was with sending pic, I went into my gmail on my phone and realized that the account would not activate because at some point I had changes my password.

I went into settings on my phone, into my email account and updated the password.

once the gmail account resolved on my phone I was able to send photos via email

Have you tried restarting or resetting your iPhone?

Restart: Press On/Off button until the Slide to Power Off slider appears, select Slide to Power Off and, after the iPhone shuts down, then press the On/Off button until the Apple logo appears.

Reset: Press the Home and On/Off buttons at the same time and hold them until the Apple logo appears (about 10 seconds). Ignore the "Slide to power off"

I had the same problem and did the same things, I download this and that. I finally I cracked it for myself.

I had been email hacked a year ago so I added a two step verification on my gmail. The little gadgets(phone) are having issues cracking this, I find this reassuring!

There is a very simple way of following the instructions that are provided with gmail. I am not a techy person. You simply have to enter some password gmail gives you into your phone.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for helping me solve the mystery leahaloca. I have 2 step verification set up—googled it and found this recipe:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/46193/ios-fix-for-gmail-password-incorrect-error- in-mail-app/

on my phone this problem is intermittent -- including in the same location (home on wifi, yes I checked it was on), 10 minutes apart.

Any clues why the non-sent-email-from-photos problem should come and go?

I have the same question but not just limited to the phone-app. I also can't email pdf's from the Pages-app or other documents from within an app. If I import the photos/ documents into Mail to send, then there's no problem at all but as soon as I'm trying to send anything from WITHIN APPS, I hear the whoosh-sound as if it's been sent but in fact nothing has been sent at all. This is a new thing, as it worked perfectly fine before, and has given me quite a bit of grief since people never received the items I thought I'd sent them.

Reset/ Restart doesn't do anything to solve the problem, neither has it anything to do with 2-step-verification. I'd be really grateful if someone knows the fix for this. Cheers

Are you following this process:

Photo--

Select the photo--

Mail---(Open the email app)

Send the mail

It makes the "whoosh" sound.

While the mail is being sent it shows an additional option as outbox.

Thanks! I did the restart, reset and it didn't work, did this and it worked immediately. Thanks so much!