Emailing multiple full resolution photos on iPhone

iPhone has built-in camera that allow you to take photos and send it out instantly with the capability of WiFi and 3G network, but have you ever notice that the photo you sent out was actually optimized by the Mail app that came with iPhone for internet transfer? If you just choose to “Email Photos” in your Photos app, your photos will be first resized and then moved to your Mail app. This is actually nice because it will reduce the bandwidth used and enhance the speed of sharing the photo out.

However, if we have a nice picture and we would like to share it out with a higher quality, we definitely don’t want our original photo to be resized which is just a better saying or quality reducing. Another annoying thing about the “Email Photos” option is that you can only be able to send out one photo every time because every time you choose “Email Photos” in your Photos app, your Mail app will create a new Email for you. What I am going to show you is how we can send out multiple photos in full original resolution, with iPhone firmware 3.0 +.

1. Create a new message in Mail app

For this post, I am going to mail out two photos; actually, just one photo, but in two different sizes. I browsed into my Photos app, and selected the photo I would like to share out. Then I use the “default” method and chose the “Email photos” to create a new message. You should be able to see that your photo is moved into a new message and that email is ready for you complete the rest and sent out.

After this post, you can just simply go to Mail app and create a new message.

2. Save email as draft

When your new email is created, you can select the “Cancel” option on the top left side, your iPhone will ask whether or not you want to save the message as a drat, just choose “Save” and then go back to the home screen.

3. Copy photo into Mail app

Now let’s go back to the Photos app, tap at the photo you would like to mail out in full resolution for about 2 seconds. You should be able to notice a “Copy” bubble comes up, simple tap on the “Copy”.

Now let’s go back to the Mail app and choose the draft we just created (It’s under the “Draft” folder if you don’t see it.), simply tap the empty area of your message body and bring up the “Select | Select All | Paste” bubble, and then choose “Paste”

Now just go ahead and complete your email and hit the “Send” button. You email will be sent out shortly, but you will notice the time of sending the photo out is actually longer than usual; that’s because the  total size of your email is larger.

Compare

If you would like to compare size/resolution difference of the photos sent out differently, I have already prepare the photo I used in the post for you:

Sent out with "Email photo" option

Send out with "copy and paste" method

And here is the size difference:

As you can see, if you just “Email photo” in Photos app, the size will be reduced to approximately 1/10 of the original size which will make it much easier to transfer it over the internet, but of course, the quality will be dropped.