While browsing through photos on your iPhone, you might have come across the error message “Can’t load photos.” And, when you try to open it, the photo would look blurry or, won’t load at all.
If your iPhone is not loading photos, the first thing to check is the Optimize Storage setting. If you have it enabled, your photos in original sizes will be saved to iCloud. So, the merely blurred images on your Gallery are only thumbnails.
Besides that, minor bugs and other reasons can also be responsible for photos stuck on loading. Thankfully, there are some simple ways to fix this issue. So, let’s look at them in detail below.
Why My iPhone Photos Not Loading
If you have difficulty loading the photos through an iCloud or photos app, the following points can be the common causes that might relate to you.
How to Fix iPhone Photos Not Loading
In this part, I have mentioned several fixes you can do to solve this issue. The mentioned fixes are less arduous, so you can easily do it.
Clear Out iPhone Storage
You can try deleting unwanted files such as apps, photos, or videos to make room to load the Photos. Your device needs additional space to accomplish some basic tasks and run smoothly. If you don’t want to delete apps, you can still offload them and save your data while clearing the storage. To delete the files, you can follow the given instructions.
Delete the Photo and Recover It
If your selected photos are not loading, you can delete them and restore them from the library. Deleting such photos can help load again if the device bugs cause it.
To Recover your deleted photo:
Reopen the Photos App
If you are still unable to load your photos by deleting and restoring. you’re able to force close the Photos app. If you haven’t removed the photos app for a long from recently used apps, you should do it as it can start fresh in the RAM and fix this issue. To force close your app, follow the below steps:
Select Download Photos and Keep Originals
Switching to download photos and keep originals will download the original photo in full resolution and load it in your camera roll. However, switching to this function will consume your device storage. So, you can also change your iCloud settings to fix this issue.
Turn on Cellular Data For Photos
Your photos won’t load because you may have disabled this feature andare not connected to the Wi-Fi. Enabling this feature will sync your pictures and can download pictures via mobile data.
Disable Low Data Mode
Low Data Mode can save your data by restricting the data usage in the background. However, if you have enabled this, it might affect the app’s ability to function properly.
Turn Off Low Power Mode
Likewise, if you have turned on Low Power Mode, it can give you extra battery life but remember it temporarily disables your device’s features and services which can lead to such issues.
Enable Unlimited Updates
You should enable unlimited updates as it will update the iCloud library via mobile data without any limits. This will consume a lot of data. But, you can still try it and ensure to try it by purchasing a data plan.
Re-Login Your iCloud ID
Once in a while, an error in your Apple ID can make you face such an issue. If that is the case, you can easily re-login with it and see if your issue might get resolved. To do so, you can follow the given instructions.
To Sign-in back:
Reboot Your Device
This is one of the easiest solutions that work most of the time when your device faces such a glitch. When you reboot your device, it forcibly instructs the RAM to end the current task and start fresh again to function well. Rebooting won’t do any bad to your device.
To Force Restart:
Update the iOS
This is the final option you can do on your own to fix your photos not loading. Suppose you are running on the old version of the iOS. You need toupdate your device to the latest versionas it has a higher possibility of resolving this problem if software bugs cause it. If you are connected to the internet, and the new software update is available for your device. You can easily update it by following the below steps.
