How to Easily Send Multiple Photos on iOS Devices

Note: This post was first published on Apr 30, 2013.

Sharing photos on social networks like Facebook and Instagram has become so easy that you might prefer to share through those channels rather than sending photos via text or emails. Typically, sending images one at a time through text is not only time-consuming but also not cost-efficient. What about third-party messaging apps like WhatsApp and WeChat? Unfortunately, they still require you to send one photo at a time.

While you can share photos with fellow iOS users via Photo Stream, both sides must have it enabled for it to work. Here’s a quick tip on how you can send multiple photos at once from your iOS device via text or email to a friend.

Send Multiple Photos via Messages

To start, on your iPhone, tap on the ‘Photos’ icon and choose the album you want to select your photos from.

Then, tap on ‘Edit’ on the upper right corner. Select all the photos that you want to send by tapping on the photos. Selected photos will have a red check near the bottom right corner.

At the bottom left corner of your screen, tap on Share. Then press Copy. By pressing copy, you have copied all of the selected photos to the clipboard.

Now, go back to your home screen and tap on Messages. Compose your message. In the space where you compose your message, press on it for 2 seconds and you will see a Paste bubble pop up. Press Paste to insert all your photos.

Once your message is complete, press Send. It might take a while for the photos to be sent out.

To check if your message has been delivered, you will see ‘Delivered’ at the bottom of the photos in your message. In the Inbox, you will see the number of images that you’ve sent, under the receiver’s name.

Send Multiple Photos via Email

Sending photos by email normally limits you to only 5 photos. With this tip, you can send as many as you want, limited only by email size.

To send multiple photos via Email, instead of choosing ‘Messages’ as your medium to send, after you have copied the photos to the clipboard, choose ‘Mail’. On the bottom right, tap on the compose email icon.

Fill in the needed details and press on the compose space for 2 seconds. You will see a ‘Paste’ bubble pop up. Press ‘Paste’ and you will see all the selected photos pasted in the compose space.

Finish composing your email, then press Send. You will be asked if you want to reduce your email size or keep it in Actual Size. Make your choice and the email will be sent.

You can use this trick to send multiple photos not only on your iPhone, but on iPod Touch and iPad too.

Limitations

There are some limitations that you should take note of:

• This tip only works via Messages (MMS & iMessage) and Email.
• If you are sending a multimedia message (MMS) you might be charged at different rates than a normal text message. This might happen if the receiver does not have the iMessage feature or has not activated it.