It still raises a number of questions...

1. Why is this happening only in iMessage?

2. Why does iMessage offer so many options to open a picture in? And why are apps that don't share photos included in this list?

3. Why can't iMessage share photos to iCloud?

4. Is iMessage broken? What makes iMessage different from other Apple apps included in iOS?

5. Why isn't Apple leading the charge and actively pushing this much needed interaction?

I think Android's approach is much better, which is why I was so excited at the possibility that Apple might be working on something similar. Alas...

And I did search and found nothing related to what's going on within iMessage, which I found odd. Nothing wrong with trying to guess what a company is doing.

Thanks for the links ;-)