Can't edit or share my iPhone photos

A workaround, although not a solution necessarily, for those of us who like me, tried the "Solved" answer, and tried closing the photos app and restarting phone, neither of which worked, is to take a screenshot of the photo in question and work with that (share, edit, etc.). This was suggested in one of the answers but not really posed as a solution so I wanted to suggest that, as long as you don't need any of the "live" features embedded in that photo, since obviously a screenshot won't capture these.

Are u using iPhone 8?

Me and my wife is having the same issue and both of us is using iPhone 8. My brother, iPhone X user, and my sister, iPhone 6s, does not have this issue. All of us are using the ios 11.2.1.

No doesn't help or apply. My experience is 11.1 causes the issue. Photo's go to icloud unauthorized by the owner of the photos, fills up icloud 5Gigs fast, you get a warning and a threat from icloud/apple @4.90 Gigs allowed by apple/icloud-to either pay $1.98 at first or they will delete your property (the photos). To get your photos back you must take the no-choice option they require and log in to icloud by paying the $1.98 to download the photos you own held for ransom they literally stole.

IOS 11 is a crap. Apple has released the worst OS since Windows ME and won't own up to all the BS they are putting their users through. Someone said Apple fixed this issue with IOS 11.2.1 and maybe they did... but I am willing to bet my phone they messed something else up in the process.

Hello,

I installed the last version of iOS (11.2.1) on my iPhone 6 Plus and in my case the problem was solved, now at last I can edit and share photos from the Photos app and from the Camera. Previously I had iOS 11.XXX (iOS11 but I do not remember exactly which version) and I could not edit and share photos. Just in case: I do not use iCloud to backup my photos.

Best regards

I am having this problem too with 11.1.1 on iPhone7. I noticed that the photos which are not shareable/editable from the photo screen are not “Live” photos. Whats strange is that I have the Live Photo turned on in camera settings and that function is supposed to prevent the camera from auto resetting to Live photo each time and instead use my last setting, but that doesn’t always work...so wondering if anyone else notices this pattern on their version of this issue. I turned the live photo setting off and haven’t had the issue again yet but will see if that sticks.

Sorry -- you're missing the point of the issue -- the image can only be displayed, but you can't edit it, you can't text it, you can't email it, you can't copy it, etc. The only thing you can do is to take a screen shot of it and then edit out the extraneous stuff in the screen shot, which is a poor workaround.

Actually if you go directly to email and not photos and attach it and send it to yourself and save from the email it works. Also when I sent it the size changed from 2.7 to 3.7 mb. Hope they fix it soon.

I have the same problem - especially if I try to edit several photos in a row. Now too the new Edit options are no longer showing available. Can you Edit your Live Photo’s to boomerang or the others?

11.2.1 and I have the problem on a photo I just took. Grey’ed send/edit buttons. Reboot doesn’t help. I had iCloud storage on when I took the photo(and optimize) but after turning them off, I still can’t send/edit the photo. Other photos work fine. Camera roll does now where the photo was taken, so at least some of the Exif data must be intact. Amazon prime photo app was able to both backup and then message the photo, so it is not totally corrupt. I guess less than 5% of my photos have this issue, so it is hard to diagnose. File appears to be .heic

I am experiencing the same problem. Some photos are editable and some are not. No pattern, very random. I am running iOS 11.2.1 on an iPhone 7plus. Have you gotten a good answer on how to resolve this? I have tried every one of the suggestions listed in this thread and not of it has fixed my issue.

This exact thing is happening to me. Take a photo, can edit. Take another, can’t edit. Take another, can.

I’m taking pics of the same thing, a page of text.

When I take a pic and successfully edit it, I go back to a previously uneditable pic, thinking maybe I’ve hooked back to iCloud or something but the previous pic is still not editable.

I’m on LTE.

I have that problem too. For me the most painful part that these photos are not life. I'm making lots of life-photos. It's completely different genre so still-image part does not make any sense without video part. It's very frustrating when I catch the rare moment hoping it will be recorded few seconds before and after but instead I'm getting this stupid still image with grayed out buttons.

Something terribly wrong inside Apple if they year after year deliver software which just does not work 😟

Waiting for other giants to pick up dropped baton of great UX (Microsoft, Google, anyone?..)

Same problem, definitely since iOS 10, maybe even as far as iOS 9.

Never gotten any consistent fix for this. If anything, it’s gotten worse.

If I take a photo of something, it stays unavailable for editing/sharing for a long period, but a screenshot of said photo is immediately available 😕

Bizarre

I agree this is a application defect which I've confirmed exists in iOS 11.2.5 and 11.2.4. Can't speak to previous versions but have gond back through images and suspect it began with 11.2.4.

Have tried rebooting and restoring to no avail. Defect persists and occurs regardless of whether using iCloud or local storage. And this defect seems to have incredible intelligence...knowing "exactly" which photo I wanted to share or edit and then removing that ability! 😉

I can't find any pattern to explain it - it's certainly intermittent and not related to iPhone 6/64GB phone orientation. I just took 3 photos within a few seconds of each other. The middle photo is the only one that can't be shared or edited.

I agree. This needs attention from Apple.