Unable to send photos with my new iPhone to non-iPhone users through Messages

I have tried turning on and off all that stuff and no help. So for those that say it is a carrier issue why can I receive photos from android users but not send them? I would think if it truly was a carrier issue I wouldn’t be able to receive photos from them either.

Lynnem321 wrote:

I have tried turning on and off all that stuff and no help. So for those that say it is a carrier issue why can I receive photos from android users but not send them? I would think if it truly was a carrier issue I wouldn’t be able to receive photos from them either.

Did you contact your carrier?

Anastasia_Franco wrote:

It is not a carrier issue, it is iPhone, those that say its a carrier issue are just stubborn.

Then how do you explain all the people who have called their carriers and gotten it fixed?

Anyone who says this isn't a carrier issue just doesn't know much about how cell service works. No shame in that.

***SOLVED for someone that nothing else worked for.

nothing mentioned has worked for me and mine. So I did the one thing NO-ONE has mentioned and works on all phones. TURN OFF MMS you don’t need it. If sending through iMessage the other option is automatically SMS. Bam problem solved photos and group messaging. Stupid androids….

I agree there is some stubborn tunnel vision from those falling back on the full diversion to the carrier issue. I was on with Verizon for three hours last night and no luck.

It’s telling is that my iPhone tells me that MMS messaging must be on for me to send photos (when I try to send one) but MMS is turned on. I just don’t know my my phone is confused about that!

I’ve tried everything suggested in this thread plus the troubleshooting last night and I still can’t send MMS pics.

And folks who are pointing to the carrier at all exclusion of potential iPhone issues, go easy. There’s always an outside chance glitches happen within the iOS system. Plenty of anecdotal evidence of that.

@MrBigChips, yes, I tried toggling those settings. Like I said, I have tried every solution that I’ve found in this 9-page thread and the issue persists. It might be Verizon, it might be my phone. Hard to say. I’ll keep trying and if I get it fixed I will report back.

Unfortunately not. It seemed to work for a little while. So I finally did what Apple wanted me to do, my partner traded in his Samsung for an iPhone, and now it works fine. Interestingly now, my housemate can't send messages to our group now that my partner has an iPhone. Eventhough our housemate has and iPhone 14. He took it to Verizon, they claimed the issue was Apple, He went to Apple, they said it was Verizon, all because the phone my partner had used to be on an Android!

I tell you they are playing some serious games with us! And Yes on iOS 17 too

I’ve done two lengthy sessions with my provider (Verizon) to no avail (one of them 3 hours, tried everything short of a full restore). I can receive texts and media from Android users, can text back and forth, but I cannot send images, video or links. Always the same message “you must enable MMS.” But of course it’s enabled. Really frustrating. The iPhone also splits up group texts from mixed iOS and Android groups… so annoying…

Same issue with my iPhone Pro AT&T. I've tried everything Google referenced. Toggling MMS/SMS, Reseting Network Settings, Updating Everything, Toggling BlueTooth, Rebooting, etc.

I'm on the newest version of iOS (17.1) on all my systems, and every time I attempt to send a picture to an Android Phone (or a group text with an android phone) I get a message failure.

Hoping for some updates.

But it doesn't for multiple users so i would take this persons advise with a grain of salt. They have sent the same BS through 11 pages of conversations & none of what they are saying works. IdrisSeabright & some other Apple loyalist just continue to say the same BS with no real help!

same. I have straight talk though I don’t know if you can get in touch with them like other carriers, also it was working fine before I changed the settings, and even though I changed them back it’s not working still.

Anastasia_Franco wrote:

That's the problem, every time there is a iOS update it stops working, and at least for me the fix that "worked like a charm" just doesn't anymore. Shame on you Apple!

Apple does not read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

So...NM. While it 'sends', I just got told it is just a bunch of text. I didn't get that feedback before so here I thought it worked all this time. I've sent feedback to Apple....not expecting an actual answer since they have ignored it for so long as is.

Same problem here. I think it’s dumb that we have to trial and error every type of setting; MMS , SMS, GPS it’s just all Bs! And i don’t know who struggles to focus more, me or my iPhone camera. Dang thing can’t take a clear photo without it trying to focus. Oh let me guess I gotta go through all kinds of settings just to take a normal pic? Buddy zoomed into the dang moon with his galaxy. Meanwhile my iPhone has all kinds of obstacles just to get a dang camera app open. Storage this, iCloud settings that, like just take the dang photo smh. And before we say AI is the reason he can see the moon clearly with his Samsung, we also went to a basketball game and his camera sharted on my iPhone camera.

Holy camole!!! This actually worked. I don’t know what made you think to try this, but I’m so glad you did. It’s been a pain trying to get pics & videos to send via text and here lately it’s been really bad!! Thank you so so so much!!