Get rid of exclamation mark on iPhone photos

in order to keep your photos non blurry and to get rid of the exclamation mark you have to go into settings and click icloud. Once you click it there will be a series of options you can choose, click Photos. Once you click that, there will be two options that will say "Optimize iPhone storage" and "Download and keep originals" you will most likely be already checked off to "Optimize iPhone Storage" so you want to click "Download and keep originals." When you go back to photos whatever pops up click ignore and your photos should be all good now, non-blurry. Hope this helps.

Same problem. The guidance above (i.e. I clicked keep original and download) did not work. The photos are still blurred and exclamation mark is still there. Please assist with bringing photos to original size. That's important. Thanks

I've got the same problem. Most of my old pictures (around 27 GB) are now blurry, apparently useless and can't be used for social networks or any other purpose. I don't use iCloud, so the problem shuouldn't be related to that. Please, give us help with this. I've got a lot of my life in those pics.

This is SO frustrating!! I’ve deleted so many things and tried all the above “solutions” nothing works. My phone says I have 4gb of free space yet all my photos have this explanation mark- APPLE CAN YOU ACTUALLY OFFER A SOLUTION

No. This doesn't help. The question first asks about the exclamation marks.

Your answer only explains why they were blurry. I knew all of that, but I'm still stuck with the exclamation mark and not being able to download the photos from iCloud.

Basically this signifies that the pictures are stored in iCloud. While the advice given in this thread so far is fine, it will result in the downloading of all your photos which, depending on how many, will take a while and a lot of extra space on your device. It should be sufficient to tap on the photos you want to see and they will download if you have an internet connection. The blur and exclamation mark will disappear.

I have found a solution... download all photos to files and then the exclamation mark will be gone

This has never happened before but it’s some of my newest pics from last week and they are not blurry, they are grey with an explanation mark. I have tried everything from the start to the end but nothing is working. Also the iCloud photos is not opening. Please help

why exclamation mark with blurred photo is apperaing

After 2 years of having this issue, I finally figured it out. So lastnight I got really annoyed with having all 3000+ of my pictures blurry and not being able to upload, view or share them because of the exclamation mark. I went over into the section that says "Photos" and at the bottom I realized that it said downloading paused because phone is saving battery power" MY LOW POWER MODE WAS ON! As soon as I turned it off, all the pictures started to go back to their original setting. They werent blurry or anything. So I think the trick is if your photo settings is set to iCloud Photo Library, Download and Keep Originals The phone is trying to download all the originals into your icloud, and low power mode prevents that from happening because it pauses the download. So, my advice is to keep your phone off of low power mode especially while its uploading new pics. Hopefully this will help you as much as it has helped me.

I did have a WiFi connection. There was nothing wrong with any of my settings. I solved the issue now by backing up the phone onto my Mac, resetting it to factory settings, and then restoring. It then took overnight to properly restore all the photos from iCloud but they are working fine now. Must be some sort of intermittent glitch.

So helpful! Thank you!

I’m with you here. I have tried everything short of doing a total factory reset and restore because I am selling my phone to get a new one, and this would take so much time. My issue is that my old pictures aren’t doing this, only random new ones. I’ve been looking for a fix for days and have tried everything (like I said, short of factory reset and restore), but nothing is working!! I’m so frustrated with this. My husband read yesterday that Apple has admitted that they are “slowing down their older devices”, I wonder if this has anything to do with it? I’m beyond frustrated with this as it’s interfering with my work!! I really hope someone can give an answer that will actually work!

I´ve had the same problem.
I didn´t know what to do. Then I realized that my iPhone was in "Battery save mode", so when I turned off "Battery save mode" then all my photos were back in full size and without problems.
I hope that helps!

I had the same problem. I think its because if youre not connected to wifi it turns off downloading to save mobile data. I resolved this issue by clicking settings>mobile data>photos and switching it to on! Hope this helps!