iOS 9 iPhone update and now I photo library is blurry and has a white exclamation point in the bottom right corner

I'm the recent update we have the option to optimise the iPhone storage which is when the original full resoulition are stored in iCloud and when you need the photo restored. However if you have no storage left like me it won't let you a access the photo from iCloud again so you are left with a blurry photo with the exclamation mark in the corner, free up some storage space and try again. The photo below is how you can change your setting from the optimise option to the download and keep originals for the future. 😊

I found that each of the photos I have edited in the past have the exclamation mark. If I revert to the original version of the photo, it is no longer blurry and the exclamation mark goes away. Downside, I lose my edits.

i had the same thing happening to me and it was really annoying because it wanted me to connect to wifi in order to download the pictures and see them in full resolution. i figured out that in my cellular i turned off using data in my photos so when i turned ON cellular data for my photos it let me see them without having to be on wifi

I had this problem for a long time. I found a resolution. Go into "Settings". Tap "iCloud" and go down to "Photos" there's an option that says "Optimize iPhone Storage" it causes you photos to be blurry when you have low storage. Tap on "Download and Keep Originals" that stops your photos from being blurry.

Hope this helped

-Jay102101

there's an option that says "Optimize iPhone Storage" it causes you photos to be blurry when you have low storage. Tap on "Download and Keep Originals" that stops your photos from being blurry.

But you should only do that, if your iPhone has enough free storage to store all photos locally. You may need to delete photos from your iPhone to be able to store all remaining photos at the full resolution.

I'm seeing the exclamation point in the lower right hand corner of my iCloud Photo Sharing images.

For various reasons I just restored my iPhone 7+. Now I'm seeing blurry images with the exclamation point.

I encounter same issue , how to fix it?.

i updated the ios9 this morning and now more than half of my iPhoto library is blurry

iPhoto does not run on iOS9, the last compatible version for iPhoto iOS was iOS7.

Are you asking about the Photos.app?

In Photos a circle with an exclamation point indicates, that the original image file needs downloading from iCloud. Are you connected to the internet?

have you signed into iCloud with the same AppleID you previously used?

Any idea if I could merge the two?

AppleDs are unique and cannot be merged. You can just stop using the one that you do not want.

how do you get all the photos to just be on your phone's memory ? My older photos all are blurry and have the exclamation point however I am not updated to ios9. I'm just simply curious as to why my photos are no longer in my physical phone memory and now are only in the cloud .. How do I get them back on my phone physically like normal ? I never deleted them so I Don't get why they would leave the physical memory.

How do I get them back on my phone physically like normal ? I never deleted them so I Don't get why they would leave the physical memory.

Disable the setting "Optimize Storage".

HI I have switched off phone optimisation and the photos are still blurry and have an exclamation mark - any ideas? Photos of a significant family event I want to get printed are all blurred and I have no idea how to retrieve them

any help gratefully received

Is your iPhone connected to Wi-Fi, so the originals can download again from iCloud Photo Library? Then tap the photo you want to rint to enlarge them and wait for the download.