Update 09/27/17: iOS has updated several times since this post published; a simple reboot – turn your phone off and then on again – may be all you need to restore access to your photos. If that doesn’t work, read on for another trick that worked for me.
I wanted to Instagram but the app kept telling me it needed access to my photos. It told me to enable this in the setting Privacy -> Photos.
Navigating to this screen, it said “Apps that have requested access to your photos will appear here”.
But there were no apps. Zippo.
I tried several things, including turning the phone off and on, deleting Instagram and re-installing, attempting to change my Instagram profile picture to prompt it to request access to my photos, and confirming that the setting under General -> Restrictions -> Privacy -> Photos was set to “Allow Changes”.
Nothing worked, until I did this:
- Go to the setting General -> Reset -> Reset Location & Privacy.
- Enter your passcode and follow prompt to reset Location & Privacy.
- Login to Instagram, and take a photo.
- Follow prompts to allow access to your camera and photos.
- Microphone and location can be allowed as well, if you like.
Happy Instagraming!
Zippo!!!
Still zero apps requesting access to my photos. Instagram asked for camera access, but not for photo.
I am going crazy!!
Do you have anything up your sleeve, Digital Zen??
Thank you,
Patricia
Bummer! You did the reset, and made sure General -> Restrictions -> Privacy -> Photos was set to “Allow Changes”? Are you trying this with Instagram or some other app? Maybe try using photos in a different app, like Contacts, will prompt your iPhone to behave better. Try adding a photo to a contact, tell me what happens.
I tried the contact photo and still nothing!!!!
Just power off your phone for a little minute and turn it back on and it should work that’s how I fixed mines
This works!
yes, same in my case
Hello, how are you?
First at all, thank you for this space!. Im having exactly the same problem and I’m really concern because I can’t upload my pictures in Facebook and Instagram and I’m travelling. I know the answer is written by you but is cut it and I’m not able to read it completely.
If you could help, telling me how can I fix it, I will be super greatful! Thank you so much again 😄
it worked!!
works ! Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH @Kehlani – wow. I was getting super frustrated because my iPhone would not let me give any apps access to my photos. Turning it on and then off again should seriously always be the first thing I try. How could I forget. THANK YOU FOR THE REMINDER THAT THIS SOLVES MOST EVERYTHING!
OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! IT WORKED FOR ME AHAHA
AWESOME!
Thanks KEHLANI!
Thanks! I can see my contacts names again:)
yeah this worked for me too and I was about to get really upset considering I have a bunch of snapstreaks that would’ve died if I didn’t get into snapchat. this is the solution
oh my god, bless. this worked for me, ty!
If I could have the opportunity have you front me I’d give a big hug. THANKS MAN
Omg this actually worked wow. Turning it off then on actually worked LOL (I did the location reset prior and nothing happened)
I tried it and it worked! Thank you so much! I was freaking out for over an hour so thank you so much
This works for me. It drives me crazy coz I have exhausted all the resources and still nothing happened. So I tried to turn off my phone and turn it on and surprisingly it works. Thank you
Wow it did really works on my iphone 6s by just shutting it down. I have tried resetting my privacy and location and no changes. Thank you i have found your commment <3
I was despairing after resetting privacy and location settings didn’t work and almost cried thinking my old phone had finally kicked the bucket. Somehow something legit as simple as just restarting my phone fixed it. Thank you so much.
When I click “enable library, camera and microphone access” in Instagram, it brings me to settings. I’m supposed to turn on “camera” but there is no option to.
me too!
Go to Screen Time. Select Content & Privacy Restrictions. Turn it off. Start app and grant permission. Then turn it back on.
I did what you said and nothing still asking for the same thing and photos and camera icons don’t appear when allowing Instagram to
Same issue still persist here after testing out with all the options mentioned above. Anyone has other idea how to go around with this? Photo, Contact apps tend not to launch apparently after clicking on them too.
This is the only thing that worked! Thank you so much!!
You r awesome thank u so much my problem is solved
So glad this worked for you, Sonal. Thanks for writing in!
What about when the i-phone won’t allow access to contacts? Any advice?
My snapchat is coming up with oops this is a camera app, to continue, you need the allow camera access in settings…. but everything is up to do nothings changed at all, I’ve had my phone over a year and used snapchat for the past 6 years… please Can u help me sort this out I’ve tried your advice with someone else’s and it still has not worked
Hello Samantha, how are you?
First at all, thank you for this space!. Im having exactly the same problem and I’m really concern because I can’t upload my pictures in Facebook and Instagram and I’m travelling. I know the answer is written a little bit up, but is cut it and I’m not able to read it completely.
If you could help, telling me how can I fix it, I will be super greatful! Thank you so much again 😄
Hello, I did everything that you told but it doesn’t work yet. Could you help me
It didn’t work for me
I want to thank you! I have been struggling with this problem since installing IOS 11. I forgot all about the restrictions! This solved my problem not being able to post photos to Facebook!
Glad I could help! Thanks for letting me know this worked for you.
I am unable to add photos to Facebook posts. I get a messsge to go to privacy settings on phone and allow access to photos but when I try to do that “photos” does not appear as a choice neither do I get s message that FB is an app that has requested access so there is nothing to turn on. I have turned phone off & on & updated operating system & FB app and nothing helps. Amy suggestions?
Mine didn’t work out why ?
Thank you so much Samantha it worked like a charm for me .
Thanks for writing in Wil, glad this worked for you!
My WhatsApp is giving me the same issue
I don’t see others profile picture when they call me
When I do the steps mentioned in the post and after resetting and restarting.it asked me to allow access to photos.gave access but when I go in general and privacy settings under photo , I saw for WhatsApp two options .
1.Read and Write
2.Never
You’re the best Sam !! Thanks for helping
It worked for me!
Thank You Samantha!
I’m so glad, thanks for letting us know!
i still can’t find a source that will allow me to have a microphone in all messages contacts. some of my contacts i have a mic, some others don’t! i can’t find a correct source to help me.
Hello.
I don’t really know how to explain but I’ve just recently downloaded two apps and the need photo access, when I go into setting to allow access the apps aren’t even there, like I never installed them. It’s driving me CRAZY for the past hour, do you have a solution?
Thank you,
Rhianna~ :3
It doesn’t work for Tik Tok or Videoshop 🙁
It worked for me with my new ipad! It wasn’t allow Facebook access and viola! Thanks so much!
I have tried both but it’s not working please help me!
Is there a 2019 version of this solution?
It still didn’t work😭
None of the apps show up there when I do that
I can’t get my phone to let MeWe access my photos. I’ve tried what you’ve suggested but nothing.
Go to settings , general , restrictions and go to photos where you can check “Allow changes” . Only then the apps will have acess
Doesn’t work
all u have to do is go to settings, general, reset, then reset location and privacy, after that power off ur phone for a few seconds and turn it back on and it works!
Thank you so much my problem has solve😊
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCHH
Thanks so much it worked
Mine still doesn’t work..?
Thanks! It worked 🙂
It WORKED! IT WORKED! IT WORKED!! You guyss!! Yayyyyyy!!! Thank you!!!
When I go onto Snapchat it keeps telling me to go onto settings and change my access to my photos but when I go to settings it already on
same
Thank you it worked 😆
Holy cow! I spent 2 hours trying to get this to work and finally this was it! You are my hero!!!!! Gratitude.
So glad this post helped you! Thanks for writing in.
Thx it worked
Eureka!
To that problem I address a knew way to solve it. You don’t need to do anything involving using settings. Just tap the home and power button three times BUT ON THE 3rd TAP HOLD IT. (this is a method for restarting the phone). Please tell me if it worked or not.
Yes! I’ve have Snapchat for over 1 year now and all of a sudden it says to “allow camera access” it takes me to Snapchat settings and it doesn’t say anything about camera. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY TIPS?!?
Thats what happened with tik tok!!
Did you try to restart your iphone?
You need the new update for iOS. It fixed my phone and now I’m all good
Same
Ya! It dosn’t ley meh!
OMG!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you find anything? I need snapchat to access my photos and it will only ask for camera access
Follow these steps to grant apps access to your photos on iPhone:
Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Photos > Make sure it’s set to “Allow changes”
In the app you’re trying to grant access to your photos, try accessing your photos again; It should prompt you to give permission; Accept
Now back in Settings > Privacy > Photos, you should see the app and you can give it Read/Write permissions, for example
If you still don’t see the app in Settings > Privacy > Photos, here’s another trick that may work (this worked for WhatsApp): Take a screenshot; Click share; Share to WhatsApp; If prompted, accept granting permissions to access your photos; At this point, WhatsApp was already able to access the photos, no need to go back into Settings > Privacy > Photos
Note: This solution is confirmed to work for iOS 12 as of May 2020.
Hi I am trying to post a picture on Instagram and it says I have to enable camera access and I have tried every single thing I can possibly do and it still won’t let me post a picture on Instagram please please help me thanks
Please see my comment of December 18 . I think this might help
Follow these steps to grant apps access to your photos on iPhone:
Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Photos > Make sure it’s set to “Allow changes”
In the app you’re trying to grant access to your photos, try accessing your photos again; It should prompt you to give permission; Accept
Now back in Settings > Privacy > Photos, you should see the app and you can give it Read/Write permissions, for example
If you still don’t see the app in Settings > Privacy > Photos, here’s another trick that may work (this worked for WhatsApp): Take a screenshot; Click share; Share to WhatsApp; If prompted, accept granting permissions to access your photos; At this point, WhatsApp was already able to access the photos, no need to go back into Settings > Privacy > Photos
Note: This solution is confirmed to work for iOS 12 as of May 2020.
Spot on it worked for me
I had the same issue the best thing I did to solve this problem is I went to the restrictions tab and turned it off
Do all the things in the previous comments, then turn your phone off and back on.
Best method turn your phone off then restart it👍🏻
Hey, My name is Kristianna also known as Kris and I having problems with my iPhone it won’t allow apps to access my photos and it keeps freezing and restarting itself and randomly exiting out of apps and when I go to my photos there’s usually nothing there.
This is exactly what is happening to my iPhone 4s… I can’t figure out if it has to do with the fact that my phone is out dated or if it has something to do with the wifi?? I need help!!
I tried your reset location thing above but sadly no joy. I can access my camera and take a photo through Instagram however rather annoyingly I cannot access any of my saved photos in an album or photo stream through Instagram. Any suggestions?
did you ever solve this problem I’m having this same problem and I need help please lmk ASAP
hey my instagram says i need to enable access to my photos in order to post things and it seems like nothing is working ive tried deleting and re-installing the instagram app and its not working and i tried turning restrictions off and turning it back on so could anyone please help? thanks
When you do what you said to do, will it hurt you’re phone in any way, like does it mess with a lot of stuff or is it easy to fix again?
I can’t say exactly what this setting will do to every app on your phone. But when I reset Location & Privacy on my phone it did not have any negative side effects. Good luck!
I could not upload a video to Facebook, although it worked before; saw it had not asked to have access to Photos, in Privacy, or Photos. Looked at all the suggestions, tried all, no change, then finally went to do the reset Location and Privacy, and restart, but now ALL the other apps which had asked. Now NONE are there, I don’t know how many 6 or 8 apps, and now another new set of problems.
Thank you so much!!!! Followed your directions and it worked.
thanks Pat for letting me know. glad it worked!
worked, thank you!!
Great, thanks for letting me know!
It hasn’t worked for me so how did it work for you?
If you go into settings-general-restrictions put in 4 digit passcode -photos in check the box then it will allow you to do so.
THIS IS WHAT WORKED!!!! FINALLY!! Thank you!
Thanks so much. You solved my problems. It was the restrictions that needed to be disabled and once I did this, all was great!
Glad it worked! Thanks for writing in 🙂
This helped!! Thank you!
Power your phone completely off then back on again. That’s what worked for me😊
Glad that worked! This didn’t do the trick for me, but you’re right, often it does! I should have mentioned that it’s a good idea to try the simple reboot first. Thanks for sharing!
Couldn’t save anything from Twitter and tried everything. This finally solved it. Thank you!!
Great! Thanks for writing in 🙂
Hey, I tried this on my iPod 4 because Minecraft PE couldn’t access my photos, which I need to do because I want to change my MCPE skin. I am using an iPod 4th gen, running iOS 6.1.6. Please help
Ryan, is it only Minecraft that can’t access photos or all your apps? Try deleting the app and adding again. I believe this tip was written when I was running iOS 8x. I’m not familiar with iPod, so not sure I can be of much help… sorry 🙁
Argh. I have tried everything!! Still no luck. I have no camera on any of my apps and I have been trying to work it for the past three days😫 I have tried going through my restrictions in the settings but everything is turned on. Any help???
Guys I found the solution for when you can’t get access to photos . Go to settings > General> Restructions> And under photos , check “Allow changes”
Only then apps will have acess to the photos
I just went onto my snapchat account about a half hour ago,and it said I need to allow access to photos,so it took me to settings but there was no option to allow access,then went to Instagram and it wouldn’t let me upload a photo because I need access,but again it wouldn’t let me allow it. I tried switching on restrictions and off,deleting the apps,resetting the location and privacy but still no luck. If anyone knows of a way to fix this it would be much appreciated.
I’m having this exact same issue. so frustrating help please.
Thanks it’s worked for mine
Great! thanks for writing in.
Had same issue. Very frustrating. I had enabled restrictions and made sure everything was allowed. Did the locations and privacy reset. Disabled restrictions then rebooted the phone. This allowed all the apps to access camera, contacts, photos etc.
Yes so frustrating I know! Glad this worked out for you too.
Hi there… I have solved my problem. Thanks to you. The best solution to this annoying situation is to reset the privacy and location settings. There is no negative effects but rather it gives u the chance to allow or not allow the app to access your camera, photos and microphone. Thanks one again bro
You’re welcome Kafui! Glad this worked for you.
Turning phone on and off after reset phone and location settings really does work
I’m trying to get on things like Musical.ly, Instagram, and stuff like that and whenever I try to shoot something, take a picture, or even post something, it doesn’t work!!! It says “Let us access camera.” And it gives me options whether to say “OK” or “Go To Settings” and when I click “Go To Settings” The camera access won’t pop up! It’s not there! Please help! 😱
I am having the exact same problem
Well, after I reseted the location services, I tried Turing on & off restrictions, which didn’t work. I turn on and off “allow changes” which didn’t work. I didn’t delete and re-download the apps though. But after trying everything, I simply just shut down my phone and turn it back on. I went to snapchat, and I could finally take pictures. And settings>privacy>photos had snapchat and the rest of the apps on it!
Resetting locations and privacy and then turning my phone off and back on worked for me. THANK YOU! I spent the majority of the day trying to problem solve this. And here it was so simple! Blessings upon you! 🙂
So glad I could help!
Will it actually reset any data?
Tried it TWICE! Didn’t work :/ Maybe because I’m using iPad? I don’t know, but it’s annoying ;3;
Do everything above turn phone off it works !
I wish that it DID work! I have done the above hundreds of times on my iPhone 6 and this seems to be the ONLY suggestion/solution offered.
sameeee did you find a solution to the problem please lmk I would really appreciate it
Ey guys I have the same problem and how do you reset your phone?
Or on&off it?
Won’t I lose any of my data and saved items?
Pls help me!
No you wont, only press the bottom one though
Look it work first u turn off your turn off restrictions then go to general and the go to reset click it press your code then reset your settings and private and then confirm it then turn it off then turn back on and then bam
Thanks man😘
Umm please help me 😒 I can’t seem to view the apps when I go to privacy, then an app for example microphone then it opens and I cannot view anything which should be to turn it on😑 Pls help me!
Samanth Thanks a lot.
It fixed my problem.
Thank you – so glad I found your article it saved the day 🙂
So glad it helped you! Thanks for writing in.
I’ve been trying to two days now I’ve tried everything , every time I go to post a picture on Instagram closes same with if I try and change my pfp or send pictures ok dm, it’s letting access to my other apps so I can use the camera for snapchat and twitter but for the Instagram it does even show up in restrictions – photos I don’t know what to do please help
PLEASE help I’ve tried everything on this thread for the past three days and nothing works it’s so annoying !! X
Same 😒😞still not working for me either, shams
I had to turn off all my restrictions to get it to work
Awesome, I had this same problem with snap and now it works. TY!
Instagram is showing option ‘Enable Access to photos’ in blue but when I tap it nothing happens , I have tried all the previous options please help
Priscilla could you post of screenshot of what you see here?
Have you tried throwing your phone at the wall?
I have been trying to do this for an hour, and then I happened upon your blog. Thank you, thank you!
You’re welcome Kaye, glad I could help!
Thanks! I thought it wouldn’t work because I didn’t see any progress, but after doing this process, i turned my iphone off then on again and it works now!! Thankyou so so soo much!!!
You’re welcome!
i have tried this many times but it has never worked m y phone won’t even let me allow photos in privacy. Someone help me
Madi, after you reset location and privacy, try powering your phone down and then back on again. This extra step seems to be helping others. Tell me what happens!
This still doesn’t work for me. And I’ve tried everything 😔😔can someone please email me at emeraldcookie121@gmail.com because i need more information on how to do this. Thanks.
Update, i turned my iphone off then on again, and now it works!!
Great!
The key is to power off and then turn back on. Thanks everyone!
It didn’t work! I did it and I can’t get into yt and I can’t allow photos on IG or yt!
With all due respect to what I’m sure are nothing but the best of intentions, Digital Zen, I suspect that this tip is actually doing more harm than good for most people in that a) this resetting of the Location & Privacy settings might have some unwanted side effects (if you’re going to put that tip out there, the responsible thing to do is to investigate what those side effects might be for people or at least point them to resources where they can investigate for themselves) and b) it seemingly is doesn’t even solve the problem for most people and for those for whom it does solve the problem, it seems it’s likely not the best solution to the problem in most cases. Please edit this post to note that the first thing to try is to simply turn the phone off and back on again (it wouldn’t hurt to force quit all apps before turning the phone off but I’m not sure it’s necessary) as that solution is a) definitively non-destructive and b) seemingly more widely successful. And at that point you can feel free to delete this comment.
Thanks for writing in Josh! I should have noted that turning my device off and on was the first thing I tried, and more than once at that. No luck.
The aim of this blog is to simply share tech tips, insights, and fixes that work for me. This is a personal blog that I write in my limited spare time, so I don’t aim to test every combination of device, operating system, software version, browser, etc. that a reader might have. I didn’t experience any unwanted side effect after resetting Location & Privacy, but you’re right, that’s not a guarantee for everyone else who might try it.
If you know of any specific side effects that we might want to avoid, please share them here.
Something else worth mentioning – a reader should look at the post date, which I don’t hide, and see that it was published in Sept 2014 – a million years ago in tech time 🙂 It’s very likely that the issue I had was fixed in subsequent iOS updates. I am going to start including my current hardware/iOS and also add an update to the top of this post. Thanks again for helping me think this through.
Hey there, ever since updating to iOS 11, I cannot upload a photo via any app. It always says “this app does not have access to your photos, you can change this in privacy settings” when I go to “photos” in the privacy settings, it says “apps that have requested access to your photos will appear here” but there’s nothing there. It’s like it doesn’t realise these apps want to have access to photos and stuff. I deleted Facebook and re-installed it, thinking maybe I clicked “don’t allow” by mistake when it asked to have access. But I Deffo clicked “allow” when re-installing and no change. It’s really annoying me, as I can’t even upload photos to Instagram and that’s the whole point in Instagram!
I’ve googled it a million times and nobody seems to have the same problem, and if they do they seem to have solved it by going to privacy settings.
I’ve even went into the separate apps in privacy settings and again it doesn’t seem to realise that the apps even want access to photos.
Please help!
Did you try turning your phone off and then on again? Did you follow the steps outlined in the post to reset Location & Privacy? This is under General settings. It sounds like you were looking in Privacy and specific apps.
I experienced and tried everything EXACTLY the same as you, Saaj. Until today. I found this blog, went to General > Restrictions and “Disabled” all restrictions. Now everything works fine. Go figure.
Does resetting location and privacy delete my pictures or apps?
It shouldn’t, and nothing was deleted from my phone when I reset location/privacy (in 2014). Always good to have a backup before making changes just in case.
I have the same problem, cant allow any of my apps to use camera,photos,microphone etc. i have tried literally everything and now that i found this trick, im just wondering that if i reset location and privacy, will it delete all my apps and media? I havent been able to use any social media for three days now and i need some help real quick.
Oh, didnt notice your reply, but thank you!!
Let me know if it works for you!
It didnt work for me😩 i tried turning my phone off after but it stil doesnt work.. do you know what could be wrong or what mitgth help me with this?
What iOS are you on… is it up to date? Outside of that, I don’t have any other clues 😐
I followed all of your steps on my iPhone 6 and I can access Facebook camera, but it still won’t let any of my apps access photos.
Just compose an email from your gmail app and try to attach a pic. It will ask to allow access to your photos. Allow access. Send that email and then restart your gmail. Now you should be allowed to save gmail attached emails into your iPhone photos
Great tip, thank you for sharing!
I tried everything too. Nothing worked. When I try to share photos, hyperlinks or anything through WhatsApp, nothing happens when I click on the WhatsApp. All other Apps are working fine. I tried resetting location and privacy, restarting, reinstalling, resetting my phone, restoring my phone, nothing worked.
Hi Ahmad, I am sorry this is happening to you! I found someone else with this problem, who offered a solution. Try this: https://www.igeeksblog.com/cant-send-photos-on-whatsapp-from-iphone/.
Let us know how it works out!
Thanks have been trying to post a video for weeks!
You’re welcome, glad this worked for you!
Facebook only sees certain albums on my iPhone. Will not see any of the My Albums that I custom create. I’m on the latest iOS, the latest version of FB, restarted my phone, photo access granted in settings. Exasperating!
Thanks a lot it work for me
Thanks, it works to me!
Okay so I am new to Apple. I have the 8 plus. I have only one problem I can’t seem to solve
I have an app I love Our Daily Bread and at the end it has a picture u can share so when i click on it to share it gives me every option but Instagram it’s not on the activities and I don’t know how to add it to include Instagram. I have to same problem if I for example google dogs and select images and find one is like to share to Instagram I don’t have that option any help would be great
Once you did all of the above and does not work, one extra step is to go the the individual app (one-by-one…I know) and in settings of the individual app…find the option to “save to camera roll”/“upload photo” and turn it off and back on again. It worked for me….to get the individual apps appearing back in the privacy—>photos (read and write)…
Thank you Jen, great tip!
Thank you Sam!! You saved me from hours of trying to figure this out.
You’re very welcome, here’s to more happy tech in 2018!
As many people have mentioned, the key seems to be to simply turn the phone off after resetting privacy/location and NOT a hard reboot. I had been doing a hard reboot as I thought that was a “higher level” of turning the device off and it was not working. I finally just powered the device off and back on again after doing the reset and it worked! Thanks for the tip!
I am unable to access my photos/camera roll for Instagram Stories despite reloading, resetting… I am unable to access them for a regular post
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tried all of this. No restrictions on, came on suddenly that everything in privacy cannot be given access to, tried resetting privacy and location. Tried turning phone on and off.
Thanks it worked by just turning it on and off
Hi, I’ve tried everything above regards photos and managed to finally get back photos on WhatsApp and messenger but not FAcebook. Tried everything on off, restrictions, privacy, nothing appears in my photos to gain access nor via Facebook.any help is appreciated. Thank you
Sorry Julie! To make sure I understand… when you are in photos, the “share with FB” option no longer appears, and conversely in FB, you cannot access your phone’s photos. Yes?
i have tried everything but cannot get library access on my phone….i even got a new iphone…. i don’t know what to do anymore and am very frustrated!!! please help!
when I try to enable library access, photos does not even come up on the list of “allow instagram to access”.
GREAT – Thanks so much, as much as I love Apple it can be very frustrating at times.
Worked like a charm.
Glad this helped you Louis! Thanks for letting me know.
Had similar problem of Goodnotes not being able to access photo. Tried all the above sauggestion. The solution that worked for me involves 2 stesps: 1. Disable restriction 2. Reset privacy n location. Hope info is useful to others who face similar problem.
Didn’t work 🙁 Two of my three accounts work great, but my Photography one that I want/need to add to my highlights doesn’t work. I was never big into stories until the highlights came out. . .seems like you can’t add to highlights anything other than stuff from your stories. . .but I still can’t get it to work. . .
I reset the privacy n location, rebooted my iPhone, hard reset it. . .nada!!
Thank you thank you!!! After disabling restrictions and resetting privacy and shutting down my phone I have photo access for the first time!! Thank you!!
I am unable to take pictures from my Instagram account but when I made anther account I can.. any advice there?
Thanks a lot…. work it👌🏼
well I have tried everything, IPhone 10xr Facebook wont allow access to photos, Instagram same, messenger same, tried reinstalling, reset phone, reset priv. setting, I have even uninstalled, poweroff, reinstall, reset. the phone, does not show anything asking for access.
Instead of trying to do it from Whatsapp I went to my Pictures and hit the share button. Then the icons came up to choose from. I chose WhatsApp and it opened it and allowed me to share
I can save edited photos with “Reset Location & Privacy”, thank you!!
(Before that, I’ve got a error message “Couldn’t Save Photo” for a long time…)
thanks!!! i worked for me as well
This just happened to my instagram. Same issue as a lot of comments above. The camera doesnt show up as an option after clicking the plus sign. It can access my photos. I followed steps outlined above including resetting restrictions and powering off and on as well as deleting the app and reinstalling it. Anything else you’ve heard of that might work?
I have an iphone XR ios 12… and just changed from a 6s. On the 6s, KIK can access my photos. Never, add photos only OR Read and Write. My Xr only gives the option to never give access or add photos only. Their is no option to READ and WRITE. I’ve restarted, reinstalled and reset privacy, but nothing. Can you help.
On iphone 6 with ios 12.3.1 , Facebook will not upload video, suddenly. Hi, I’ve tried everything above regards photos: shut off/back on twice, privacy, after the reset locations, now no apps appear in privacy>photos, or camera as if no one had asked to gain access, but there WERE about 6 or 8 apps there before the reset.
From Photos share to Fb can be tapped, but it disappears right away. Share to Instagram does work, but it does not appear as an app on the settings/privacy/photos page anymore. Does not matter as it works, but video to Fb? no go. Have checked Fb settings and see upload to HD is on, and Photo HD, also checked FB regs on format. Same sphone worked before. Also, do not see any ‘restrictions,’ spot, but Location is On, and Accessibility between Apps. What to do?
That worked! Thank you very much…. I’m so happy now 🙂
Mine still wouldn’t allow camera access after all the resetting and restarting steps. It only worked for the microphone access. It wouldn’t allow me to post a story without access to camera and it wouldn’t revert me to the iphone settings to allow so. I tried to post a photo instead and it asked for access to my photos. I accepted and then selected camera and it asked for access to camera. I accepted and now all solved!
I had the same issue! I went to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings, and my camera access was available again. I hope this helps!
PROBLEM SOLVED! Just turn off and on your phone 🙂 yay!!! (it was so simple)
Hi!
I have no access to photos, camera, my background refresh setting is all gray-can’t select anything… my WhatsApp contacts are only numbers … everything is reaaally weird, I have tried it all posted here… and still…
do you have a 2020 answer for an Xs Max? iOS 13.3.1?
It works if you restart your phone after!! Thank you!!🥳❤️
None of this worked for le and I don’t have ‘restrictions’ under ‘general’ in settings at all
I have figured out the problem, GENERAL SETTINGS: rest: rest all setting.
Thank you! Been struggling with this for days and this worked perfectly for me!
The reset worked! Thanks so much, I had tried several other troubleshooting tips!
not working. i’ve tried resetting location/privacy, deleted app, downloaded again. nothing . shut down/restarted 3 times…. camera access is there but IG cannot enable library of photos.
So I called Apple support and they helped me with the problem. All you have to do is go to settings-Screen time – Turn off screen time . And you should be good to go !
This works (had to turn my phone on and off after I reset it) Thank you soooo much for the help- my phone was driving me crazy!! x
Worked for us! Thank you!
Thank you!! This works!! I tried everything from deleting pictures and I’ve been up searching ways to fix this issue and this fixed it. Thank you. Good ole’ internet. 🤍
So glad this worked for you! 🙂
Hi came back here ! Just to write it worked ❤️ Seriously never had or heard that issue and person next to me is better off criticizing me than helping. Tried and tried then googled and found this space. Thanks so much
You’re welcome, glad this helped. Thanks for writing!
Just try resetting privacy and location, when you also don’t receive notifications, for iPhone and iPad, it is working.
I had the same issue : all apps lost permissions to pictures, contacts, Bluetooth etc. It was so annoying ! All I had to do is reboot my iPhone. Thank you so much…