Photo won't send - stuck 'Preparing'

[ibookemo]

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I have a bad bug with iOS 17.0.2 on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. This occurs quite often and I have tried to resolve it by doing a fresh install of iOS, not using my iCloud backup. This doesn't fix it though.

A lot of the time, when I go to send a photo from the Photos app to someone via share/message (sending it via iMessage) it gets stuck on the 'Preparing' stage forever.

If I instead just go to the Messages app and try to send the photo from there, it just never loads into the message window...stuck again.

The images I am using are 'Live' photos with a Portrait blur added after taking the pic.

I'm currently downloading the developer beta of 17.1 beta 1 in order to check if it fixes the issue. Anyone else experience this bug?

EDIT: The 17.1 beta 1 did not fix it.

 

[ibookemo]

I might have found a fix from a Reddit forum of all places:
'The fix was going into Files and disabled all Files integration to apps (Google Drive, One Drive, etc.) and disconnected all connections to servers (SMB).'

So far this has worked form me...I'll report back if it re-breaks🤞🏻