How to send unlimited photos thru mail iOS9

I Just emailed 9 photos to myself from one email account to another one. I can do this without any problems whatsoever. Are you trying to do this in the mail app itself? The OP felt that it was too much work to select one photo at a time in the mail and insisted on wanting to do it with the Photos app which will not work. Do you know how to seen photos in the mail app?

Tap and hold down on the text area until the black bar appears and select Insert Photo or Video. Just keep repeating the action.

I Have no problem sending more than 5 photos in an email using the mail app. Are you using the mail app or trying to do this from another app? Bear in mind that most email providers put a limit on the size of attachments that you can send in an email.

kurolap wrote:

From photo app and if I do it from mail app I can only select one at a time. If I select more than 5 there's no icon for share with "mail:"

As Demo stated depending on your email provider there is a set limit of GB you can send and receive, believe the default or standard is between 20 to 30 GB.

kurolap wrote:

From photo app and if I do it from mail app I can only select one at a time. If I select more than 5 there's no icon for share with "mail:"

You can not select more than 5 at a time in the photos app. If you want to send more than 5 photos at once, you must use the mail app. It's a little more cumbersome than you would like perhaps, but it's also the way it works. You can't do it from the photos app.

The problem you will have is that every email provider has a limit on the size of one message. It varies from about 10 MB for most ISPs (2 pictures) to 30 MB (5 or 6 pictures) so there's no point in trying to email more than 5 pictures at a time. And even that number may not work with many email providers.

That isn't true if you compress photos you should be able to send 40 or 50 and not hit the 10MB limit. I was doing it daily with ios8 and an app called iattachment. Now with ios9 it doesn't work, so I'm experiencing the same problem. I read somewhere that you can attach unlimited photos with ios9, but like the original poster, I can't get it to work. Any help from someone who knows how to make it work would be great!

datalin wrote:

That isn't true if you compress photos you should be able to send 40 or 50 and not hit the 10MB limit. I was doing it daily with ios8 and an app called iattachment. Now with ios9 it doesn't work, so I'm experiencing the same problem. I read somewhere that you can attach unlimited photos with ios9, but like the original poster, I can't get it to work. Any help from someone who knows how to make it work would be great!

That is nonsense. Photos are already compressed as much as they can be without losing quality. Each photo on an iPhone takes about 4 MB. You do the math. If you reduce the quality substantially you can get it down, perhaps, to 2 MB. And if you choose the lowest setting you can get more, but the picture quality will be totally unacceptable to anyone with 20/20 vision.

if this is what you're talking about, then.

the new function "Mail drop" works by putting too large files on iCloud and sending a link (if I am not mistaken).

and I am not sure but I think it only worked on iCloud e-mail addresses.

this means you are limited by the size of your iCloud (5GB by default).

+ I am not sure if it works with iOS (but i think so)

b51015

The images we use when fully compressed end up at about 25k to 75k and they work fine for the purposes we need. The apple compression for small images compresses them down to about 250k, then we have more compression software on or server that makes them even smaller. We aren't professional photographers taking high quality images. We are just documenting our field work. We need the files that small because we have about 2M photos on our server at any given time. If each of the photos was 2Megs, then that would take up 4TB on our server which is not managable for us in terms of remote data access and backups. Lawrence, if you don't believe that a 75k image can be useful to someone for business purposes then perhaps you aren't the right person to help me solve my problem.

Our field workers take anywhere between 10 and 100 images per project and they do up to 4 projects per day. On a busy day, they may need to send in as many as 350 images. Attaching that many images to emails one at a time is not going to work for us. Not even if it were only 35 photos per day.

So.... my point is in ios8 with the iattachment app, we could attach up to 40 images to an email with one command. it isn't working with ios9. it bonks out with anything over 5 images. Same with other similar apps that i've tried. So I need to find a way to be able to do it again. Perhaps with a tweak or with a different app. I've been considering using dropbox, but I think the process will be too complicated for our field workers. Some kind of an app that works through email would be best.

we also need to be able to rename the images, because it affects how the server will treat them once received. (the photos are routed into our database so that our customer service can view them when talking to customers)

to b51015 Thanks for the tip. I'll check out that app, but I don't think it will work for us because we would have to rewrite our code on the server (receiving) side to retrieve the photos from the cloud. do-able perhaps but we would have to start from scratch with new code.

To send unlimited numbers of photos, all that is necessary is to send the link to the server that you have unlimited storage on to store your unlimited number of photos. They can then view or download the photos from that server.

All email servers have limits on size of messages which have nothing to do with Apple.