Archive. This is an archive of the Apple Support Community. Discussions are being restored and soon you will be able to read and post here again.
Dfstorm91
User level: Level 1 (18 points)

iPhone 17 Pro's Photos app crashes when editing large photo library

I’m having a serious issue with the Photos app crashing.

iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 27.0.1


I take a lot of pictures and do minor edits with the photo app. when clicking the edit/adjust button at the bottom of the picture, the app crashes. I have to reopen it and scroll back to the picture I was editing. Never had a problem until the last week or two, and extremely bad today for some reason. I just went through a series of about 30 pictures and the app crashed 8 times. Restart doesn’t help. I do not have shared albums turned on. I’ve heard this is related to large photo libraries? I have 132gb of photos on my phone. Why would this be an issue when I have 220gb of space free on my phone, and 2tb cloud storage? Any ideas how to fix this?


[Re-Titled by Moderator]

Original Title: Photo app crashing consistently

Posted on Oct 29, 2026 7:37 PM

3 replies

Richard.Taylor
User level: Level 7 (25,466 points)

Oct 30, 2026 7:49 AM in response to Dfstorm91

You don't say how large your iPhone's storage is. If it's 2 TB, then 220 GB may not be enough free storage, and crazy things can happen.


A 132 GB Library is not offensively large. I have a 150GB Library on a 512 GB iPad with no problems. But that leaves me with 40% of my storage free. I'm guessing that you are not using Optimize Storage-- is that right?


Do you have a VPN, or "Cleaner" apps, or "Virus" apps? Those can certainly cause problems.


Corrupt files in the Library can cause crashes. Do you have any pictures that don't allow edits or deletes?


The first thing to try is a a forced restart: 

Force restart iPhone - Apple Support

This is different from a simple Power Off. For me, the logo appears  5 or 10 seconds past the "slide to power off" message. Wait for the logo; don't do the slide thing. 



Dfstorm91 Author
User level: Level 1 (18 points)

Oct 30, 2026 3:57 PM in response to Richard.Taylor

Richard,

Thanks for the reply. My phone is 512 GB. Correct I am not using optimize storage. No VPNs, no cleaner apps, no shared albums, nothing complicated.


I haven't come across any corrupted pictures that don't allow edits.


I tried a force restart last night. It didn't fix anything. But that was when I realized iOS 27.2 was downloading in the background which is likely why the crashing was much more frequent. Since installing the update I haven't seen any crashing yet. We'll see, maybe this update fixed it.

Richard.Taylor
User level: Level 7 (25,466 points)

Nov 1, 2026 6:26 AM in response to Dfstorm91

Great! Updating clears out some useless and maybe problematic stuff.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256385656