The problem is reported by many Apple iphone, iPad customer that they can't view or send photos, videos using any of share features on iOS 11/iOS 12/iOS 13. When the users try to do so iphone will pop up with error message "There was an error while preparing to share. Please try again later”. Before trying any solution make sure your iClound have enough space and even iphone/ipad have some extra space for doing the transfer.
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Why I am Unable to Share Photos iCloud?
The reason why you are not able to share photos or videos on icloud and getting the ‘there was an error while preparing to share‘ notification is because you’ve turned on Low Power Mode, low storage, poor data connectivity or other software glitches. There can be other reasons as well for which below are the lists of
possible fixes for the issue that may help to fix the issue:
How to fix apple iphone issue unable to share photos on iCloud, iPhone 6s/7/XR/:
Fix 1 : Go to
iCloud-> and make sure Photo Library enabled and Optimize iPhone Storage is checked.
Log out of iCloud then log in back. At first, you may feel that all your cloud
pictures/albums were removed from the phone. But it may take a few minutes for
everything to download again. I have over 2k photos and 15+ albums so it took a
bit for it all to come back. After it try to do the share again, it is possible
that you still see same error similar to original issue but a few minutes later
it may work for you.
Fix 2 : Best solution for this problem is by the following these
steps
1-"General settings"
2-"Accessibility"
3- "reduced mention"
4- turn it off or on which ever you didn't have.
5- Try again in few minutes.
Fix 3: An easier
solution. Just go to Settings > Click on your name > iCloud > Photos
> turn off iCloud Photo Library and turn it on again. When you turn it off,
choose "Remove from iPhone".
Fix 4: A bit of a pain as you need to shut off Find My
Phone, remove and reload iphotos.
I hope above solution have helped you to fix There was an error while preparing to share issue on icloud.
Comments
Go into your battery settings to ensure "Low Power Mode" is off.
I had the same issue and this was my fix.
Cheers
Please help me out here.
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Much help would be appreciated.
Walked away for a bit , turned the phone back on, all my images have retired and can be shared/send fabulous, thanks.
It actually deleted all of my pics, it’s been 5 days and I only have 6 of the 100+ pictures.
I suppose I will have to transfer everything over to Google Drive, which had a nice Photo app.