How to Enable MMS on Your iPhone (Updated)

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Enable MMS

- Plug your iPhone into iTunes.

- Click on "Check for Updates"

- You should see the dialog box above. Download and install that magical .ipcc file.

- After the update--which should take no time at all--you'll get the dialog box that your carrier settings have been updated.

- Unplug your iPhone and turn it off.

- Turn it back on.

-Navigate to the Messages app (the one you use to send SMS).

- Behold the power of the tiny camera icon.

- Send your signifigant other a picture of yourself. Make sure it's safe for work.

You can also send MMS via the Photos app.

-Launch the Photos app

- Tap on the share button.

- Tap to select a photo, or photos, to send.

-Tap on share.

-Boom! The MMS button is alive in the dialog box that appears.

Send the magics!

Finally, maybe you hate MMS. You can turn it off.

- Navigate to Settings > Messages.

- There you can turn off MMS.

Have Fun!

UPDATE: Commenter wingnut03370 points out tht you can also send contacts and voice memos via MMS.

For Contacts:

Launch the Contacts app, find the personyou want to share and tap on Share Contact for the MMS screen to appear.

For Voice Memos:

Launch Voice Memos, navigate to the audio you want to share and click on the Share button.

Are you seeing a pattern here?

COMMENTS: 10

TAGS: AT&T, mms

COMMENTS

Works Great, loving it
Submitted by Donald Claxton on Fri, 2009-09-25 09:43

I have downloaded, rebooted the phone and it works superbly well. Thanks, AT&T. This will come in handy. And thanks, too, to Apple.

www.daddyclaxton.com

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Doesn't work if your friends haven't updated
Submitted by Donald Claxton on Fri, 2009-09-25 09:58

I've tried sending photos to three iPhone friends who haven't done the upgrade yet and they don't get the text message, so you might need to nudge them to do so.

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Contact Info and Voice memos
Submitted by wingnut03370 on Fri, 2009-09-25 12:26

Don'f forget you can MMS Voice Memos and Contacts informations as well. Can you add instructions for that as well for everyone to use?

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sending contact and voice message
Submitted by mattdunlop on Fri, 2009-09-25 11:18

just the same as the picture or video.
open contact hit share choose mms and send to who you want.
when you get one on the iphone you can save as new or add to connect you already have.

the video quality that is sent is not as good as what the camera can capture.

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Yet another feature
Submitted by tmulcare on Fri, 2009-09-25 13:42

Can't you share directions from google maps as well?

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it's about time they have it
Submitted by willtaylorisawesome on Fri, 2009-09-25 14:37

it's about time they have it they said late summer but it's fall now I haven't tried yet but it's there if I actually need it.

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MMS ???
Submitted by bemer2six on Fri, 2009-09-25 21:34

I have enabled MMS as listed above.... then took a pic. of my bike I was working on went thru the steps and I hit send.... about 25 min. later it shows still sending. so now what? and i gave it 3 or 4 more tries still the same progress bar stops just before filling up and the pic. doesn't go any where????

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OK, what about audio files (and no I don't mean songs)?
Submitted by yergeyjim on Sat, 2009-10-17 13:22

I record phone messages on my Mac and would like to send them to my iPhone as an MMS.It allows for iPhone VoiceMemo audio files to be sent by MMS, but I can't find a way to send an audio file (even a saved VoiceMemo) to my iPhone?I must be missing something??Jim

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