How to allow apps access to my photos?

I recently updated my iPhone 4S and now I can't for example upload photos to Instagram.

I've gone to settings - privacy - photos but there's nothing there! It just says "apps that have requested access to your photos will appear here".

I've tried everything, please help!

Hmm, well on my 4 I followed the steps you have tried just now to double check. When I go to Settings > Privacy > Photos and I have a list of many apps that are all turned on, and instagram is one of them

I can't access my albums to print photos on my photo cube

Go onto privacy

If you can't help why even comment… Absurd!

Go to General, Restrictions then Photos and allow changes and that will take care of it!

Thanks worked for me…

I have a iPhone 5 and I can't get my photos on insta and I tried waht you said but it didn't work

Mine won't let me change it to allow changes

Going into restrictions didn't work for me

It didn't work for my snapchat and it's really annoying

How do I get snapchat to allow photo when I go to privacy and camera it's just says how any app that requested phot with show but snapchay doesn't show?

I have an iPhone 5 I tried going on restrictions and on privacy not working at all will someone please help its for an app?!

I need help accessing my photos on all my apps the requires photos

I need help accessing my photos on all my apps the requires photos

Close whichever app you want to allow access to (double tap the home button and swipe it away). Go to restrictions (in general). Go to photos. Choose allow changes. Close settings. Go back to the app and start it. Try to access photos and when prompted, choose allow. Should work. If not, go back to general>restrictions>photos - you should see the app there. Allow it access.

Thanks Carolina and Kir Patel! Your writings helped me somehow to figure out how to solve the following problem: I have an iPhone 7 plus and I wanted to allow WhatsApp access to my photos. Not long ago I just had to go to Settings>WhatsApp>Photos, and it gave me the options "Allow" and "Do not allow", and I was able to change from one option to the other with a button. Today (maybe because recently I updated my iPhone), I found it works different: go to Settings>WhatsApp>Photos>Read and Write (when you tap this one the tick appears next to it), and now you can send photos through WhatsApp.

Thank you guest that commented on 06/07/15 you saved me!

This is an old question so i'll post the answer for the updated iphone 6s, because this was really bugging me, the iphone has two privacy settings, the one you want is here. Go into Settings - Screen Time - Content & Privacy Restrictions, if you are using an App that needs permission from photo's or something allow it here, then it should work for you.

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