The shared photos library icon is not appearing in Camera app

I also had this problem after resetting all settings. I fixed it by turning off iCloud Photos (Settings > Photos), and the re-enabling iCloud Photos.

After a few minutes after iCloud Photos syncs, the shared library setting appeared and the shared library button reappeared in the Camera app.

Mine too. And the advice came directly from Apple Support after iCloud photo syncing stopped working since iOS 17.0.3. The recent iOS 17.1 update also doesn't change anything, like Jurgen already told.

Here's the solution (most likely)!

I also tried a lot of things as adviced from Apple support. The only solution that helped finally – and thankfully also eliminated some other bugs which accumulated – was to completely reinstall the newest iOS. This is what I should have done from the very first beginning and most likely will help you too:

First I made a cloud backup of my phone. Then I connected the phone with my mac and from there I completely reinstalled the newest iOS via finder. I can't remember the exact button but if you can see vou iPhone in finder I'm sure you'll find it.

After reinstall load everything back in from you iCloud backup. You unfortunately have to setup some things from scratch (like FaceID or Wallet) but it's worth it when everything is working fine again. Until iOS 17 I believed iOS is free from the Microsoft Windows known habit to make a clean reinstall from time to time to get rid of system bugs but I now know better …

Good luck!

@longzheng only resetting all settings is not enough, you also need this reinstall as I tried to describe. But fortunately you found a way better solution to this problem where you don't loose everything you gathered all the years like WLAN passwords or Wallet items.

But I had so many other bugs (family sharing wasn't notifying me anymore, share icon in camera turned on and off on a random basis, …) that I'm glad I did a clean reinstall that worked for all this other bugs too.

Hello Jurgen Schaub,

You've done some fantastic troubleshooting so far. In this case, we'd suggest that you contact Apple to look into this further: Get Support

Cheers!

Hi Jurgen, did you have any success finding a solution to this? We have the same issue.

Thanks

Interesting. Mine happened after resetting settings too. There is no sharing icon there now and I can’t find any way to get it back. If I work out how to fix it I’ll let you know.

I'm having the same issue after resetting all settings. I haven't figure out how to get it back either.

That works! Thank you

This fixed it exactly as you describe.

Absolutely huge thank you for solving this issue. It’s been a glitch on my shared library for about a year.