Why can't I send or share photos from my iPhone6 photo app? It says "There was a error while preparing to share. Please try again later." It's been 4 days and no luck. Help!

I too am having this problem and I have finally been able to get all my photos onto my computer either by getting them off my phone or from ICloud. Then I turned off Photos for ICloud because the ICloud service *****. I just keep my photos on my phone and avoid Icloud like the plague. They should rename it iclown.

From my experience this happens when you have your phone set to 'optimised'. This means that the image/ video is not stored on the phone itself, but in the cloud, freeing up space on your handset. However, when you do eventually fill up the handset, then decide you want to watch, send or view said item, it cant download it back to the phone (which it needs to do in order to send) due to lack of space.

If you find yourself in this situation then the only thing Ive found to work is to plug my phone into my computer, transfer all visable videos/pictures. Then go through them on my phone and delete the ones I can do without. This then free's up the space on my phone in order to download the the ones I really want.

Id advise having your 'Photos & Camera' settings set to 'Download and keep originals' to prevent this happening in the future. However, it does mean the space on your phone is pretty valuble and you're likely to need to take stuff off (maybe transfer to a hard drive) regularly. Another thing I've learned since my brother became a manager at Apple is that videos take up a lot of space on your phone when youve initially recorded them. If you transfer them to your computer, then back again, they appear smaller, using less storage space.

I've noticed lots of people on here saying that they are signing out of icloud then signing back in but find they are losing stuff. BACK UP FIRST. If you dont then you are likely to lose things and not get them back. If you did back up and find that a few things are missing, give it time. it's literally pulling all your stuff from the freaking sky, dont expect it there in minutes. Mine has sometimes taken hours

Hope this helps someone

I was having the same problem when I was trying to send pictures from PHOTOs. I isolated problem to occurring only when I did not have a WIFI connection - i.e. when I was 3G only. Turned out to be a settings problem. Went to Settings/Cellular/ USE CELLUAR DATA FOR and activated PHOTOS. Now it works like a charm. Hopefully your solution is also this simple.

I had this problem on my iPhone 7. Instead of scrolling through the photos directly in my camera app, I went to the All Photos folder and selected the images that I needed there. Text of three images worked fine.

I think that the camera app blocks access for some reason, perhaps because it is linked to the iCloud.

I have exactly the same in iPad mini 2 with iOS 8.1.2

sharing was ok up to the last set I wanted to share via airdrop. Now I cannot shard anymore via any means. (Not via iCloud, airdrop etc.) I have restarted without any change to the situation. Pls help!

I have the same problem however if you "share" or copy, do it by 1-8 pictures at a time. Sometimes when I copy 8 pictures I still get the problem. This seems to just be happening around the Holidays. I copied 600 pictures just the other day now I can barely copy any. Good luck! I hope they fix this. Is this suppose to be a one time share thingy -_- ☻

I see this topic was started back in september and still no resolution?????!!!!

Sort of defeats the purpose of having a camera on this phone when i cant share anything! Its been one crappy software release after another ....FIX THIS ALREADY!!

Still having this issue, no fix in sight. Can't even change my wallpaper because like 80% of my gallery won't even load in apps and settings.

Come on, apple. This has gone long enough. It's simply pathetic that it's taken this long.

GO to settings, scroll down to iCloud, click on it, scroll down to log out, press log out and wait for it to finish logging out, then log right back in with your iTunes password. It will reset up your pictures, don't be alarmed they will disappear for a few minutes and then re download from the iCloud and that fixes the error.

I was having an issue where the error message came up and it wouldn't let me set a photo as my wallpaper. Your trick worked like a charm. Thank you!

Go to settings, cellular, and enable photos. If its already enabled, turn it off and then on again.

Here's what I found worked for me. Go into the Camera and select the icon of the last photo you took in the lower left hand corner. When you select the photo and it grows larger, select the All Photos link in the upper right corner. This should show you all your photos whether stored locally on you phone or your iCloud account. Select the Collections link (this is optional) and then the photo you want to share either via text message or email. A popup should appear that displays the word preparing and a small white circle with a gray outline. As the images is prepared the circle will fill as the process continues. As soon as this process is complete you should be able to send the image via your chosen method. I hope this help you. 😉

I have the same problem, I can not send my photos, please help 😕

Just had the same problem. Fully cycle the power (hold the power button for a few seconds) then restart the phone. Solved the problem here.

I too am having this issue...the above solution did not work for me...this is very frustrating!! please fix...

Very frustrating. I need to move pictures onto iCloud off my phone for storage reasons...