So, I know, because I’ve often done it in the past, sending photos was as easy as just clicking on it! But something seems to have changed, and I’m struggling to understand what to do.
I’ve been attempting to send 5-10 photos to someone. But they won’t send, because they are too large I expect. I see no way to determine what size they send at or what size they were taken at.
I’ve mucked it up twice now, and broke it into three emails each time. Not before looking an inept idiot, I expect!
I do remember being asked on occasions, to pick a size to send photos, but not always and especially not with any of these current emails.
(I’m on an iPad, two years old, if that helps! )
I’m incredibly confused by this, and searching a solution brings up instructions I can’t comprehend even the first step of.
So, if you have any advice or can point me to SIMPLE instructions, I’d be forever grateful. I’m honestly unsure where to even start.
No, I don’t really need to send big files. I simply don’t know or see any way to do otherwise.
(I appreciate the tip but I’m looking for something that doesn’t involve another program/service.)
I don’t know the email app on an Ipad, but I have never seen an email program or interface that lets you resize pictures, so you have no choice but to use an external solution.
I absolutely have, but it seems amateurish somehow. I am curious what changed. I’ve often sent photos off to people and NEVER had an issue. Then, suddenly, I hit send, it makes the noise, like it’s sent. But when I log on hours later it’s sitting in the draft section unsent.
Both times, over the weekend, it flustered me , as I could not figure out what the heck was going on. What could have changed I wondered.
The only culprit I know in these cases is that your email server has a restriction on the size of a single email including attachments and thus bounces the oversized mails. Normally, you should get a message about the bounce, but that depends on the server and/or your email program. What might have changed in your case: either this was the first time that one of your outgoing mails exceeded your mail server’s size limit, or else the mail server’s size limit got reduced.
I know, right? I use IOS mail, always have. But I’ve never been certain what exactly, brings up that prompt? Because I used to see it all the time. Then only sometimes. And now seemingly, not at all, even when I’m struggling to send photos!
Part of what was so frustrating for me was knowing full well, this very screen exists, I have often used it, but have no idea how to generate it when I ACTUALLY needed it.
I’m still confused, to be honest. Fortunately I don’t often send more than three photos of something, so that’s something I guess.
Are you starting in the email app and then attaching pictures?
What if you start in the photos app and use the “share” button (square with an arrow out of it pointing up), select the pictures, then choose email? That’s the way I always send photos from iOS and maybe that flow is part of the size chooser?
Typically, older email servers have a email limit of 10MB. Lately I’ve seen this upped to 20MB and even larger. The problem is - too many such emails fill the mailbox database, since few people realize their sent items folder may be accumulating, and many people use their email inbox as a filing system for years of email.
Also, email attachments (all binary attachments) typically are sent using MIME encoding where the resulting message attachments will be about 33% bigger than the original. This is because the email protocol (SMTP) was intended for text, so MIME encoding converts a sequences of bytes to a longer sequence of printable characters (A byte- 8 bits - can have one of 256 values, but there are only about half as many printable characters.)
So if you look in sent items of your email and the size of the failed email is over 10MB that may be your problem. There’s also the question whether your server or the destination is rejecting the email - which should be apparent in the bounce response message. If your server allows 20MB outgoing but the other end only accepts up to 10MB then the email will still fail. This is aggravated by growing photo sizes. My original 4Mp photos were less than 700KB, newer 24Mp photos can run 6MB or more. Don’t even think about sending modern RAW photos. Mine are just less than 30MB. Ditto, movies can get really big.
I’d have to check the ipad (and won’t bother, as I see that’s already been answered in the thread); but certainly Mac Mail on my desktop allows that quite easily. The option shows up in the window as soon as you attach a photo.
iamthewalrus_3 was correct. Instead of attaching photos to emails, I sent photos, via email, initiated from the photo app. And it solved the issue for me!
Here’s what has happened to me a few times:
The problem has nothing to do with the email.
The problem is entirely in the camera.
If you take a photo in low resolution, the file will be small enough to email easily.
But if you change the camera settings, so it now takes photos in high resolution, the next photo you take will be in a much larger file.
Except that the email program – or apparently in this case the photo app – is capable of resizing the file in the email so that what’s sent is a lower resolution than the original photo.
I’ve sometimes had to readjust settings again (to, say, a medium instead of a small pic) because the recipient said what they got was too blurry to see properly. If you take the pic at a lower resolution to start with, that isn’t possible.
Yeah, like I said, I’ve personally never seen it, but I don’t know every email program in the world and I only know the Apple world fleetingly. But it’s a good feature.
