Photosharing in Messages in iOS12 (1 Viewer)

[Mike Frezon]

I just installed iOS12 onto my iPhone 6 the other night.

I was completely bummed when I went to send someone a photo in a text message and found that when I clicked the camera icon to the left of the text field that all I could do was take a new image and not access the images stored on my phone any more.

So, I was backing out of the messaging app, opening the images app, finding the image and then selecting the image, typing in the name of the recipient and sending it from there. Super clunky.

It's not like Apple to make things like that harder to do.

Some online research now shows me that if I'm in the message app I can access my photos via that little strip of icons that runs along the keyboard and includes things like apple pay, the app store, etc.

I dunno. The other way seemed to make more sense.

 

[Mike Frezon]

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-ios-12-messages-photos-2018-7

https://appletoolbox.com/2018/08/how-do-you-share-photos-in-messages-and-imessage-ios-12/

 

[Clinton McClure]

It took me all of two seconds to adapt to the new way of iMessaging photos. I don’t understand what the fuss is about.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Now that I know the new way...it's not as bad as what I was doing.

But it still seems like it's less straight-forward than it used to be.

I'm sure I'll get used to the new way, too. It'll maybe take me 30 to 40 seconds to get used to it, though.

 

[DavidJ]

Seems like an unnecessary change.

 

[DaveF]

Or you just tap the Photos icon.

It took a minute to figure out the new changes, but it’s actually easier now, I think.

 

[Clinton McClure]

Thanks for the visual, Dave.

Yep, instead of hitting the camera icon beside the message, hit the photos icon just below the camera icon. The old way was fine but the new way makes a lot more sense to me.

 

[Mike Frezon]

But when is Dave going to get home??

 

[Sam Posten]

It confused the hell outta me too. I've adapted.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Maybe, next, Apple will come up with a better way to set up the letters on the keyboard!

 

[Mike Frezon]

It confused the hell outta me too. I've adapted.

Yeah. I'm finally settling in, too. I guess my 30 to 40-seconds of adjustment is coming to a close.

 

[DaveF]

But when is Dave going to get home??

If you want, I can add you to my Shortcut so you also know when I'm getting home every evening.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Let me think about that...

 

[Ted Todorov]

Maybe, next, Apple will come up with a better way to set up the letters on the keyboard!

Don't joke - they had a horrific new setup in iOS 12.0 which fortunately they fixed back to normal in iOS 12.0.1 -- the .?123 & globe key (for switching languages) were swapped.

 

[DaveF]

Thank goodness that horrorshow got fixed. I can’t figure how that keyboard got through beta testing, only to be corrected in the x.0.1 upgrade.