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 had this problem as well and have determined that the problem is in icloud. If your photos have not been completed uploaded to icloud or vice versa from icloud to your device you will receive that error. It is possible that your phone may not be uploaded because of photo or video size etc and your device is trying to save your data. It will transfer directly when in wifi though. It can be because of data etc but without going through your settings there is no way to know for certain which is the problem. Here is the semi quick fix that worked for me.

Turn off "Icloud photo library" in settings>photos>remove from phone.

This will temporarily cause multiple if not all pictures to be removed from the device. DON'T PANICK! Those pictures that were removed from the phone have been uploaded to icloud and are not lost.

Now turn the icloud photo library back on (I had "Optimize Iphone Storage" set to On.)

Now unless you have a plan with unlimited data, your phone will pause until you are back on wifi but you can force it to begin without. If you elect to wait, simply login to wifi at your next available time and it will begin to redownload all photos. The error message will then subside and you can begin sharing again like normal.

Agreed it is a huge hassle that this happens but it is due to data usage and Apple programming your device to not allow excessive overage without consent. - Just my opinion. Good luck and hope this helps!

I had same problem. Turned out I was using 'optimize iPhone storage' for photo AND I wasn't signed into my iCloud, so if the photo I wanted to share had not been downloaded to the iPhone (because iCloud not signed in), it couldn't be shared. Once I signed in iCloud, problem fixed

Probably you are optimizing the storage by keeping the original photo on iCloud AND you are not signed in iCloud properly. In that case, your iPhone can't get the original copy of the photo to share so you see the error. Just try to sign off iCloud and sign in again and see if the problem solved

This worked for me, go to settings, select camera off and power off, power back on, go to settings select camera on, power off then power back on and bingo, i was able to share all my pictures and videos again, hope it helps someone

I had this problem too. I tried restarting my phone and logging in and out of iCloud but nothing worked. What fixed the issue for me was that I had my battery saver turned on and when I turned it off, I was able to share pictures again

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.

THANKS!!! I've been searching for this solution for a week! I had seen it elsewhere once before and forgotten all about it...just knew it existed. Thank you for taking the time to post about this! For real!

Peace!

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

It is possible your phone may be on low power mode, this prevents loading remote photos in iCloud to your phone when selected and yet remain with the exclamation mark and a blurred image, until low power mode is disabled

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

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 -_- ☻

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...