Iphone 6 won't download photos sent to me via text messages

I am unable to see some photos in some messages sent to me. I can see the photo on my home screen when the message arrives but when I open the message I get a box with a large grey dot and the word downloading underneath it in blue but nothing else happens and I can't download the photo???

I have/had the same problem. Go to Messaging, when u see the list of current messages, click on the options tab and click on settings. You want to make sure "auto-retrieve" is NOT clicked on. This will give you a "download" button whenever a photo is sent, and you click on that download the image to view.
If that still doensn't work (most of time it does for me, but on a few occasions it does not.) Then restart the phone and it will download

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