Q: Pictures not showing in camera roll for messages

When I'm in messages and I click the small insert picture icon to the left of the text bar, there used to be a preview of the most recent pictures I took that i could click on and insert quickly into a message to send. Now the only pictures that are there are very old pictures from over a year ago. The only way to send a picture is to go into the photo library from that pop up menu in messages, or go into photos and share via message from there. And even then it's a 50/50 shot if the picture will make it into the text box to be sent. I usually have to try a few times.

I've been able to figure out that this is occurring because I have photos set to optimize iPhone storage and the pictures are needing to be downloaded before they are sent. If I take a picture while off wifi, it shows up in the preview roll in messages as normal. However once those pictures are uploaded via wifi, I'm back to those same old pictures in the preview roll.

This didn't always occur and I've been using the optimize iPhone storage option since its inception. It seems like a bug somewhere but looking for some help of possible. At worst ive at least made apple aware. Thanks n