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!
iPhone 6, iOS 8
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 I finally figured out a fix for this. You sign out of the iCloud completely and you sign right back in and it works
I just had this issue and I logged out of my iCloud on settings and logged back in and it fixed it!!
I found an easier solution. Just go to Settings > Click on your name > iCloud > Photos > turn off iCloud Photo Library and turn it on again. When you turn it off, choose "Remove from iPhone".
try going to settings, going to icloud, turning off the toggle switch for pictures, hard rebooting your phone. Then logging out of icloud, logging back in, toggling pictures again and see if that works.
I was having this problem for a long time. Eventually I realized that pictures that didn't originate on my phone were the problem (eg, screenshots of snapchats). If you select photos that were taken on your phone, or photos that were taken an iPhone and sent to you via text that you then saved, they should upload fine. For screenshots, I was able to upload them to the cloud by screenshotting the picture in my library and then uploading the newer screenshot to the cloud. This is a little tedious, but I was able to upload all of my pictures to the cloud.
I hope this helps!
I haven't been able to do this as well for the last few weeks today I Decided to log out of cloud on phone and re log in. And now i can send photos via text messages and as well go to photo album and send them from there. No more UN able to share. Tray again later- so far that hasseemed to fix the error in sharing and attaching the photos 😉
haven't been able to do this as well for the last few weeks today I Decided to log out of cloud on phone and re log in. And now i can send photos via text messages and as well go to photo album and send them from there. No more UN able to share. Tray again later- so far that hasseemed to fix the error in sharing and attaching the photos
I had this error, it was driving me crazy. I followed a heap of suggestions - then I remembered that I put my phone on low power mode yesterday. As soon as I took it off low power more it worked again.
Sign out of the iCloud completely and then sign back in and it works
I had the same issue. Then I just took a photo using camera and photos application started showing me updating 5000+ photos. (There were some 5000+ photos in my library)
It is all working fine now.
Hi, I had the same problem. My phone was on low power mode, so once I switched that off the phots loaded normally and I was able to share them.
Hope it helps
Three Fix for Unable to Share Pictures
The first method is the easiest one and many who were facing this issue, report that this method worked for them.
1st Solution
After you turn off library and remove it . And again sing in back , immediately you may not see all the photos. But don’t worry it will take little time and after that you will get all the photos as well you will find that your sharing is working. This method worked for 90% people facing the issue.
2nd Solution
The second method is simple but little painful. All you need to do is simply , shut off Find My Phone then remove and reload iphotos. It might solve the problem.
3th Solution
I consider this fix as the best solution if it works for you as it doesn’t involve any risk to your photos or to your phone. But many report that this method is not working. Anyway you can give it a try, if above solution are not working for you.
PPossible workaround which worked for me with videos at lease. go to iMovie app and use the cloud download icon there on the video then return to photos aop and try to share. Worked for me On ios 8.4. Looks to me like an issue where It needs the photo or video on local device to share correctly but it won't/isnot download(ed)
I logged into my iCloud from my computer and the files were available there - I made sure to download them to my computer, then uploaded to my Google drive so I could access them through the Google drive app on my phone. Kind of a workaround but hopefully helps a few people!
Signing out of the icloud and then again signing in helped and terrified me - if they have so much power over my phone through just icloud i cannot fathom how much my privacy and usage of the my phone that i have payed for is invaded and breach ofmprivacy agreement that is done here
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!
