
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? 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. If you're looking for Facebook help, of course, you've come to the right place too. :-)
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Never miss another useful Q&A article again! Subscribe to AskDaveTaylor with Google Reader. 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 PMgreat Posted by: lalita at November 7, 2008 10:18 AMI want to register in facebook Posted by: Thatofatso Maswabi at November 16, 2008 10:10 AMThis doesn't work anymore. But Facebook Mobile app uploads photos iPhone photos just fine. Posted by: cosmorochester at January 1, 2009 8:42 AMI 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 AMI 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 PMI 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 AMsame 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 PMI have a lot to say, but ...
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