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!

Yes. Logged out. This removed all non local pictures. Then logged in again. Pictures restored. Same issue with PNGs.

ARnd

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 am struggling with this, too. When I try to share a "Moment" from my Photos app on my iPhone 6 Plus, I get a progress meter labled "Preparing..." that quickly fills to 1/4 of a circle, then halts for several minutes. After that, inevitably, I get the error mentioned in the subject of this thread: "There was a error while preparing to share. Please try again later."

Would love to have a fix for this.

Same issue here too!!! 😕

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)

BEnGillam solution worked for me,

apperantly the problem was that i had many photos and videos from iCloud in my iphoto app and they did not download to my ipad and even there were no thumbnails for them (so i saw allot of gray icons instead of photos),

the app was occupied by downloading these thumbnails, i saw a little round wheel next to the upper left corner of the screen indicating network activity by the iphoto app, when i closed the app (minimized it), the activity stopped, so i went to imovie as BenGillam suggested and scrolled through all the videos there, that caused the app to download all the video thumbnails, later i scrolled through my pages of photos and waited for them to display thumbnails,

after that there was no round circle / wheel and then the share successfully worked,

that saied - the icloud share is so slow, dont bother sharing more then 4-6 photos at a time

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 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.

Aaarrggh. I had this problem and followed this advice logged out of iCloud on my phone and then logged back into iCloud and now the last 20-30 photos (that I could not share) have disappeared completely from my iphone 6.

Is there any way of retrieving these precious holiday photos from any non visible folder in the iPhone please ?

The very same thing just happened. I followed someone's suggestion to log out, then log back into iCloud and now all but three photos are missing.

I can't seem to send pics that I've sent many times before. And now, they're not even in my folders!

Anyone have another suggestion that won't delete important photos?

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.

Had same error message on my iPad2 when trying to share videos synced from from my iPhone6+ via iCloud. Sharing directly from the iPhone works.

Despite years of development and feedback, iCloud is still unreliable. Why don't they just by one of the fully functioning cloud storage companies if they cannot get a basic service working?

Hi

Make sure you have home sharing on all your your apple devices

When you click share& the box comes up you need to type in

Where its going to if its your apple tv type in your apple id Email Address

Also give folder a name like apple tv photos.

I did this with new Apple tv & it worked fine.

Cheers

Brian

Reset network settings and log back into wifi and it will work. Bam.

FInally! After so many scrolls (I know everyone tries to help in good faith) I was able to find a solution! THANKS!!

I took another screen shot of the "receipt" picture and it worked!