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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!

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

Posted on Sep 24, 2014 6:24 PM

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Jan 17, 2018 11:40 AM in response to Reading Tchr

I think I've found a solution.
There were 50 photos I wanted to collectively (Select All) and share over whatever(Airdrop/mail/etc). There was this one photo from those 50 photos which was causing the problem. That one photo was taken from the app "B612" and not form the iPhone stock camera app. I then unselected that specific photo and tried sharing again.


Voila!

Shared 49 photos! (50 minus the one that was causing the problem).

In my case, it was one photo taken from 3rd party camera app. It might be a photo from some other app that might be preventing the sharing. Find that out. Its easy.

Let me know if this worked for you.🙂

Dec 25, 2014 1:15 PM in response to Reading Tchr

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 -_- ☻

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!

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