In the messages app, old attachments, such as photos, videos and audio messages won’t load anymore, only showing file placeholder icons when I try to open any of them. It seems to be quite random to which files this happens; some of them can only be found back in the chat conversation, some will show up in the chat’s photos tab (but not load when I click them) and some are unaffected. This means there’s a lot of information that was sent to me about 2 months ago that I can no longer view.
I tried toggling iMessage off and on in the settings and restarting my iPhone, but it didn’t work.
I don’t have the option turned on where iMessage attachments are saved to iCloud.
I have used about 150 GB out of 256 of storage, I’m not sure how much influence this has.
I’m using a refurbished iPhone 13 with iOS 26.6.2.