Using the apple shortcuts app, I’m trying to make a QR code from an image, but every time I do that it just makes the QR code the file name instead of the actual image. I learned that the apple QR code is only meant for text, does anyone have a shortcut that can make it from an image?
iPhone 13, iOS 17
Coolbee ~ Just one of your photos requires millions of pixels (MPs) to define the image. You cannot expect all that info to be re-encoded in a different format in a QR code.
...As Phil suggested, put your image in a location accessible via the internet, e.g. iCloud, and then use Shortcuts to generate a QR code of that image's URL.
When that QR code is scanned, ypur image will appear.
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Not sure what you mean by make a QR code from an image. A QR code as you mention just translates to text. This text can be pretty much any type of text, including a URL than can then itself load an image if that's what you want, but the QR code cannot be made to produce an image when scanned.
The QR code itself can be saved as an image though.
Or this potential result from here
with the caveat that this kind of result involves installing free third-party software and detailed steps as exhibited on that site. I have not tried this approach, or installed any software, so the usual caution remains about software installations and risks.
Coolbee ~ Are you referring to QR mosaic art?...
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😮That’s really cool but no. What I’m trying to say is when you scan the QR code it shows you an image. I have this in my shortcuts app but it only gets the file name of the image.
How to make an image to a QR code
