Hi all,
since updating to iOS26 the photos app keeps crashing and is unusable.
Any resolve to this issue?
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Original Title: Photos app crash iOS 26
iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 26
I also had this. I am on IOS 26 and an iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Rebooting the phone and killing the photos app didn’t work. The photos app would crash either immediately when opening or soon after.
What was interesting was if I browsed (swiped through one by one) the photos from the ‘Camera’ app (bottom left hand icon), then there was no crashing. As soon as I clicked on the icon to see the whole library within the Photos app - it crashed again.
I worked out what has caused it and fixed it.
last night I experimented with taking RAW 48mb images (around 10), and seem to recall this occurring since.
I accessed them through the camera app (as detailed above), and deleted them one by one.
I opened the Photos app and it has stopped crashing.
My guess is that since the update the app can’t handle displaying high res RAW images as part of a gallery view anymore.
We need a fix Apple (without having to buy a 17!!!)
The same for my iPhone 14 pro max, iOS 26.0.1. Photo app crashes immediately when browsing the gallery. Any hint?
I submitted a ticket through Feedback the first time, but I haven’t really seen any real solutions. That’s why I felt the need to look for solutions on the forum…
I have the same problem with my iPad.
This happens to me a lot on my iPhone 17. This is brand new and is updated to the latest iOS version, so it does not just affect the 14 series.
It happens to me too on my iPad, whenever I put a picture in an album and then try to reorder photos in that same album, iPad crashes
I‘m also experiencing several crashes of the photo app on my iPhone 14 Pro just a few weeks after updating iOS 26 from the Beta to the public release.
I have the same issue with a brand new iPhone 17
Same issue I’m having on my 14pro.
Photos app keeps crashing after iOS 26 update on iPhone
