Video too long to email

I recently ran into this same problem. As an actor I do a lot of self taping and sometimes I need to do it from my iPhone. At times the video is more than a minute long. The solution I found was to use a compression app to reduce the file size that I found in the App Store. I leave that choice to your discrestion. To get past the email issue I then did a copy paste approach from the camera roll of the compressed video and just pasted the video into the body of the email.

Hello Jenkjat, what you are describing is one of the iPhone's most frustrating limitations. It has nothing to do with the size of the email attachment. Apple has simply decided that 52 seconds of video is the longest that can be emailed, end of story. This usually corresponds to around a 5-6 mb file.

Considering that a standard Corporate Gmail account can send 25 mb attachments this restriction does not make sense. The same "logic" applies to sending pictures. Apple has decided that you can only email 5 pictures at a time, try to select the 6th image and the email icon will not come up. You can of course go into the email program and attach one image at a time (insert image) and the go on but that is tedious and not very logical.

The best solution to the issue of sending longer videos is to download the Google Drive App and set up a folder within Gdock's that have the preferred sharing privileges and then upload to this. However, a 5 minute video will NOT be 25 mb or so as the otherwise excellent iPhone compression software (that kicks in when you email a video) is not used. Therefore the file will be very large and completely unpractical to upload even on 4G as it would use up too much data.

There are also Apps out there that allows for longer videos to be emailed but I have not found anything yet that works as well as Apple original. Any ideas or suggestons anyone?

Did you guys find a solution? Having same issue all of the sudden....

The message should be the size of the video is too large, not too long.

Email account providers have an overall email size limit for sent and received email, and there is no way around that.

Email attachments are encoded, and the encoding method increases the size of an attachment by 50% or so. A 4MB file pre-encoded will be 6MB after the encoding process.

There's got to be a different answer to this question because I've recorded about 7 different videos all around 2-3 minutes long. They always were easy to email or text message until recently. The last 2 have the message that they're too long to send. Makes no sense. Is it possible it has something to do with the memory on my phone?

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