If Google Photos is broken for you on iOS, there’s a fix
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#68V4M)
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Google Photos appeared to break for many users following Apple's latest iOS 16.3.1 update. Several Verge staff members, as well as people on Twitter, report that the app crashed on launch, making it impossible to access or manage your Google photo library.
Google released an updated Google Photos app (Version 6.23.1) early Tuesday morning in the Apple App Store that fixed user-reported issues." Subsequent user reports suggest it solves the crashing issue at launch.
While the problem wasn't universal - a few people, myself included, were able to open Google Photos just fine - the crashing did appear to be relatively widespread. Other Google apps, such as Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Maps, all seemed to be working fine.
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