How do I email photos from my cell phone to Facebook?

I'm always on the go and seem to constantly bump into interesting and weird situations. I'd love to be able to take those photos and share them with my friends on Facebook, but I don't know how to connect my phone with my Facebook account. Can you step me through this entire process, please?

Dave's Answer:

Facebook recently introduced a new interface to the service and I believe that one of the things that's changed is this very capability. It used to be that it was pretty darn hard to figure out how to do this and involved a bunch of steps. Now as long as you remember the magic email address of mobile@facebook.com it's pretty darn easy to set things up.

If you promise not to try and hack my phone or Facebook account, I'll show you what I did to pair my Apple iPhone 3G with my Facebook profile so that I can easily email photographs up to my Facebook account and share 'em with my followers, just as you seek to do with your pictures.

There are different paths to the same end point, but I decided to start by emailing an interesting photograph to "mobile@facebook.com", to see what would happen.

I started out looking at a photo on my iPhone:

Tapping on the curled arrow on the lower left corner brings up a menu of different things I can do with that particular photographic image:

If you guessed I tapped on "Email Photo", you'd be right.

The iPhone then moves you to the email application with a typical blank set of fields to fill in. I typed "mobile@facebook.com", along with a subject line that I hope will become the caption of the photo, as you can see:

A tap on "Send" and it's off...

Am I done? Nope, not even close. But it's not too bad. About 90 seconds later a response comes from Facebook:

Okay, so I can do that. I log in to my Facebook account and go to the URL specified, facebook.com/mobile, just to see:

I click on "+ Activate Facebook Mobile" and suddenly the lower left of the existing page is highlighted:

I can enter my phone number, but that's actually work, so instead I'll click on the small text link "Already have a confirmation code?" because, well, I do:

With the code that Facebook emailed me entered on this page, I click on "Confirm" and see:

Done!

Now, where's that picture I just uploaded?

To track it down, I went back to my home page on Facebook, then clicked on the "Photos" choice under Applications:

Clicking on it shows me a bunch of photos from other people, but there's a small link "My Photos" that I click on:

There we go, the "Mobile Uploads" tab is what we want! Click on it and:

That's a winner! It's the photo that I emailed from my iPhone to my Facebook account and it worked. How about that!

Hope that helps you get the most out of Facebook. I'd also like to let you know that I have quite a bit of Facebook help here on the site and that I also have an Ask Dave Taylor Facebook Fan Page that I invite you to join.

Categorized: Facebook Help , iPhone and Cell Phone Help (Article 8525, Written by Dave Taylor)
Tagged: cell phones, facebook, facebook photographs, mobile facebook
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Comments

Anyone else with an iPhone suddenly not able to use mobile@facebook.com ??? I get the message: 'Sorry, we cannot support uploads sent via email. Upload photos from your iPhone with our free application, Facebook for iPhone' ....

I've been using the email method for a year .... anoe know whats going on??

Thanks

Sue J

Posted by: Sue J at October 29, 2008 4:09 PM

great

Posted by: lalita at November 7, 2008 10:18 AM

I want to register in facebook

Posted by: Thatofatso Maswabi at November 16, 2008 10:10 AM

This doesn't work anymore. But Facebook Mobile app uploads photos iPhone photos just fine.

Posted by: cosmorochester at January 1, 2009 8:42 AM

I mailed my photo twice and i do not see an of my photos on facebook what should i do now?

Posted by: Tamsyn Engelbrecht at January 10, 2009 4:24 AM

I tried to send pics to mobile@facebook.com and i got emails saying "you have uploaded from an unrecognized or unsupported address. If you are sending from a phone you carrier may not be recognized by facebook. Please try again in 24 hours." How do I fix this?

Posted by: Paul Gordon at March 1, 2009 5:30 PM

I was also looking for ways to post pictures from my iPhone to facebook through e-mail because this would enable me to post a picture to Flickr and Facebook at the same time.

Unfortunately I get the following reply when I send a picture to Facebook by e-mail:

"Sorry, we cannot support uploads sent via email. Upload photos from your iPhone with our free application, Facebook for iPhone."

The application works much slower than e-mailing so I'm quite dissapointed...

Posted by: Daniel at July 1, 2009 9:29 AM

same with me. facebook are being ethnocentric again by refusing international phones without sms from emailing. With livejournal, for example, they let ANY registered email address send pictures, so then you could use your phone email by sort of proxy.

Shame on you facebook!

Posted by: primal convoy in Japan at July 1, 2009 8:26 PM

I have an IPhone and when I went through your steps, I got the email and it said

Sorry, we cannot support uploads sent via email to this address. Use the Facebook for iPhone Application to upload photos, or see http://www.facebook.com/mobile for more options.

Not sure what I did wrong....

Posted by: Rhonda at September 10, 2009 6:43 PM

Hi,

Can you provide help for uploading photos from my BlackBerry to FB? It used to work just fine, but now it does not. I tried e-mailing the photo to mobile@facebook.com but I am getting the same message everyone else here is saying they have received.

Please help!

Thanks so much,
Laura

Posted by: Laura at March 4, 2010 6:50 PM

I actually have an actual email address I send my pictures to facebook. It's emailherexxxx@m.facebook.com. I didn't put the actual address, as I don't want other people's pictures on my facebook.(; I don't remember how I got the email and I'm trying to help a friend aquire the same. I guess the "mobile@facebook.com" isn't working for her...

Posted by: Brittney at November 20, 2010 7:38 PM

i have samsung phone how do i send my picture to facebook

Posted by: princess at April 2, 2011 8:08 PM

how do i send pics from my facebook account to my email ? jmsclark35@yahoo.com

Posted by: James at May 28, 2011 11:03 AM

This was very helpful! xD but is there a way to have the photo uploaded to a SPECIFIC album? I made an album and i want photos in it uploaded by my mobile. Get it? Please help and email me if there's a way!!!!?????

Posted by: Jennifer at September 5, 2011 5:55 PM

I can't remember what email thing to send the pic to :l and this website wasnt very helpful FACEBOOK SUCKS NOW :(

Posted by: Abbey Pratt at September 14, 2011 6:22 PM

I have been sending photos to facebook by e-mail with a password, that's the only way I know how to do it and it's not working anymore. Is this the new facebook policy? Mary Goldwater

Posted by: mary goldwater at September 26, 2011 6:28 AM

I have a samsung impression and I had been posting pics from my cell with no problem.About 3 weeks ago it stopped working.I had changed my password so I am thinking that is when it started.
Any suggestions?

Posted by: Kim at December 16, 2011 7:52 AM

i have an LG android phone ,and since f/book is constantly changing i am no longer able to send my photos from my cell to f/b,it says i require a personal confirmation code,which ive tried it all,and still no code ,can u help

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