Sending multiple pics to a group on my iPhone
This relates to both Photos.app and Messages.app
Is there a way to:
Take 40 pictures and easily send the best 5 from my iPhone, to a Group, and then to friend1, and then to friend2. (FYI, neither friend is part of the group).
My first though was to simply create an Album called "Send These" in Photos.app (or just make them as favorites). Here's the problem with that method:
- From Messages.app I click the photos.app icon to go into photos and select pictures.
- Photos DEFAULTS to the "ALL PHOTOS" album at the bottom of my Messages screen where you can select photos.
- But my photos (scattered over the past year) are conveniently located in my "Send These" Album that I created. So I switch to that Album.
- WAIT... the SELECTION UTILITY just changed. Unlike the All Photos album which allows you to select multiple pictures to attach, when you go to any other Album, you can only select ONE picture.
- So after selecting each picture, you start over to select your 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th picture to attach.
- For "each" picture, you (1) select photos icon (2) change album (3) select the Nth picture {hmm, did I select this one already... where did I leave off}, (4) click choose.
- WORSE YET, I have to do this 3 times (once group, again for each of the two other recipients that have nothing to do with the group).
- Super tedious! Super painful.
OK, let's try starting from Photos.app instead of from Messages.app.
If I start in Photos.app, I can select photos (and after some trial and error, I figured out that if I touch and hold a pic I can preview it without unselecting the other pics). Great.
And here come the problem...
- I've selected all of my photos. I click the SHARE icon, and I see a bunch of recent iMessage recipients. Which one is the right one? There are two groups that start with "Joe and Jim..." I can only see the first one or two names, and the order of the names of recipients in these group is different from what I see when I'm looking at the group from Messages.app.
- So I guess, hoping to see the list of names before I Send. No dice! All I see is "New Group MMS" at the top. And it doesn't show any of the previous message dialog. So I don't know who I'm sending to.
iPhone XR