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Get rid of exclamation mark on iPhone photos

Why do some of my pictures have an exclamation mark in the bottom right corner and are blurry? I cannot share or put them as wallpaper. I think it is because storage is almoat full but i have deleted a lot of videos and more than half of my pictures and i still have the same issue. It's annoying!

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iPhone 6s, iOS 10.2.1

Posted on Feb 6, 2017 1:23 PM

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Posted on Mar 27, 2017 10:28 AM

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.

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Mar 2, 2018 3:40 PM in response to Ligiization

<English> I've been searching for the answer on google and youtube also in this community but didn't find one. And now i'm sharing you one of the solution that i accidently found 🙂 (sorry for bad english, grammar & etc.)


1. Go to ''Settings''

2. Tap ''Apple ID''

3. Tap ''iCloud''

4. Find ''iCloud Backup''

5. Switch off ''iCloud Backup''

6. And then switch back on

7. Tap "Back Up Now"


- it should appear ''Backing Up...'' on a horizontal line (loading line, we all familiar w/ it)

- under the horizontal line, written ''Estimating time remaining...''

- Tadaa! all you've to do is wait for your iPhone backing up your data. 😎


Good luck 😉


LH


<Bahasa Melayu> Aku dah try cari solution utk benda ni dkt google, youtube and dkt community ni & tak jumpa ape2 pon. Aku decide main tekan2 je and.... aku dpt solution dia 🙂


1. Pergi dekat ''Settings''

2. Tekan ''Apple ID''

3. Tekan ''iCloud''

4. Cari '' iCloud Backup''

5. Tutup ''iCloud Backup''

6. Lepastu buka balik.

7. Tekan ''Back Up Now''


- Patutnye dia akan keluar ''Backing Up...'' dekat atas loading line

- Dekat bawah loading line tu ada tertulis ''Estimating time remaining...''

- Tada! sekarang kau tinggal nak tunggu iPhone kau 'Back Up' kau punya data 😎


Good luck 😉


LH

Mar 20, 2018 3:33 PM in response to Ligiization

One of the possible reasons why your photos/videos wouldn’t download could possibly be that you have low power mode occurring. Low power mode does not download all of your photos and videos and anything that you wished to share. So if your photos/videos don’t download you could possibly be on low power mode so you could turn it off, that is your solution too.

Mar 26, 2018 3:16 PM in response to Ligiization

I had the same problem. I clicked on the download and keep originals and it still didn’t work. There’s must be a couple videos or photos that are taking up too much room. I suggest looking through your camera roll and deleting any videos that are over 45 seconds to a minute long because those that up the most space! Hope this helps and good luck!!

Apr 9, 2018 11:51 PM in response to Ligiization

So I went through all the steps said here and nothing happened. I deleted soooo much. I have extra storage I pay for so i don’t even know why it would’ve been a storage issue. Anyway none of it worked. Then I realized my phone was on the low power mode. Turned that off & my pictures came back to life. Amen! I hope this helps someone

Sep 4, 2018 12:45 AM in response to Ligiization

Meaning of exclamation mark in iPhone photo album is that you are using iCloud Photo library, and the specific photo’s full-size original could not be loaded from iCloud due to some reasons. This could be due to lack of a network connection or poor WIFI signal, or in worst case it could be file corruption on iCloud’s end . To restore the photos you should sync back with icloud. courtesy http://www.shudhtech.com/2017/12/iphone-678-what-is-exclamation-mark.html

Get rid of exclamation mark on iPhone photos

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