Question mark in box in place of pictures on text messages

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Question mark in box in place of pictures on text messages

What is Apple EVER going to do to correct the issue with pictures sent via text message reverting to a question mark in a box? Their responses so far are that the pictures revert to this “after a time”. Well, does “after a time” mean one day? Or, they respond by saying “update your software” — this is just a pat answer that does nothing! Or they might respond by saying to erase your phone/ipad data and start over. Not an appropriate response to many. They need to fix this issue, so annoying!

iPhone 12

Posted on Apr 25, 2023 7:54 AM

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Answer 1

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Yoopergirlbest Author

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14 points

Apr 25, 2023 9:16 AM in response to Lawrence Finch

So I guess my confusion is: these are images I sent to others and then when I go back to the text message and picture I sent, to check the image or send it to another person, it has reverted to a question mark. This is not something that was sent to me. And, these are pictures that I have taken, not pictures I received from someone else.

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Apr 7, 2024 7:42 AM in response to Yoopergirlbest

I’m having the exact same issue. I’ve spent dozens of hours trying to solve this with Apple support… nothing fixes the issue (including a factory reset!). Like you, these are photos I’ve taken & they are stored on my phone. This morning I finally noticed that the photos with question marks occur in texts that I have forwarded from another text.

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Apr 30, 2024 6:15 AM in response to Yoopergirlbest

Same here. It was doing it for a while then stopped a few months back and now is suddenly doing it again after the most recent update. And these are pics that I took and are still in my Photos so there’s no reason or excuse for this. Come on Apple!

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Apr 25, 2023 8:07 AM in response to Yoopergirlbest

This is not something that Apple can fix; a question mark means that the image was not sent to your device; instead a link to the image was sent to your device, and the original image has been removed from the server or source that it linked from.

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Sancam11

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8 points

May 1, 2024 9:36 AM in response to Yoopergirlbest

I agree. I sent a photo that did not send and all I have is a box with a ? In it. Now it’s not even in my photos. So what happened? Nothing bad, just a funny quote.

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Question mark in box in place of pictures on text messages

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