iOS 18.1 not attaching photos to iMessage or text messages from photos

Ever since the update to iOS 18.1 I cannot attach photos into either a text message or an iMessage from photos. I’ve reset my phone and messed around with it and synced and all that and it’s not working. Several other people I know have the same problem. When Igo to photos and then you use share pad and try to send the to the text message app the text message app opens but there’s no picture in it.

I have to actually go into the messages app hit the plus go to the photos which is two extra clicks from what it used to be (way less efficient) And then go dig around for the photos rather than just going from the photos app, which is so much easier. Very disappointed.

There’s been several other problems with 18.1. What a mess. All the sudden to my phone keep randomly stalling 5+ seconds sometimes. It just locks up.

I’m on an iPhone 15 Pro Max 1TB model.

And the iOS 8 10.3 update keeps failing overnight.

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