MMS should be officially live for everyone now, as AT&T has rolled it out during the morning hours.
To update your iPhone, you simply plug it into itunes, and navigate to the iPhone screen. Just click update, and the carrier file will download (about 10 seconds). Then restart your device, and you’re now ready to send all kinds of MMS to everyone.
Now it’s great that MMS finally launched for the iPhone, but what’s more interesting today is all of the different ways you can use MMS on the iPhone. Obviously you can send a picture, but that’s not all. You can also send video (3GS only), a location, voice message, and even a contact.
Send
To send a photo or video it works the same way. You have three options. You can go into messages, and tap the camera icon to take a picture or video to directly send in a message. Or you can choose an existing picture or video from camera roll linked through messages. Not for pictures, but for videos you can go into camera roll, and view any video, and send a video mms through from the pop-up options.
Not only can you use the on-screen options to send photos/videos, but you can copy a photo/video and paste it into a message. You can get an image from safari, e-mail, or your camera roll, and then just use apple’s new copy paste method.
Voice memos can be sent through MMS as well. Simply record a voice memo, and bring up the sharing options. Now included is an option to send it as an MMS. Contact information works the same way. You simply go to your contacts, and tap the share button, so now you can send any contact info you have to anyone else.
Receive
When you receive an MMS, you tap on the icon of the multi media item, to get a quick look at it. If it’s an image it pops up full screen, where you can tap the share button to save it. A video or audio message will open through the iPod, and you can save those as well.
If it’s a location it takes you to google maps. Finally contact information pops up like you see in the phone app, except with added sharing and saving icons at the bottom.
Edit
Also in messages is a new edit option. Inside edit you now have a line item deletion option as well as a forwarding option. Now inside messages you can delete individual lines, like mass delete in mail. It finally brings an end to only having the option to close the entire conversation in messages. Also inside edit is the option to forward to anyone, it’s just not obvious that it would be under the edit option.
There are multiple ways to use MMS using your iPhone, and all are super easy to do. Basically it’s just like sending multi media items using e-mail before. Now there’s just an option to use messages.
What are you waiting for? Connect your iPhone to itunes, and get updating.
What do you think of MMS finally on the iPhone. Also tell us if the update is working for you, and how AT&T’s network is handling it.
Update
Thanks to our readers for pointing out that you have to reboot your iPhone after updating the carrier settings to enable MMS.
I can’t wait to get home and download it.
Not sure why no one has touched on it yet, but the mms update also allows you to have a group conversation… Where any replies go to all recipients and stay within that group convo. Where as replies used to come to the sender in a seperate convo
I’ve downloaded the carrier update and nothing happened. no mms on my phone at all. am i missing something?
I had to reboot.
reboot your phone and it should work
me and several others in the office all had to reboot. Does not look like a synch is necessary. Just do the carrier update, reboot, try and send a text message and you will notice the new camera icon.
Does anyone know if the update will kill my jailbreak?
Thank you for pointing out that you have to reboot your iPhone to enable MMS. The post has been updated.
@Unknown2099
Since this is just an update to the carrier settings it will not affect your jailbreak. Apple updates change the firmware and the basebands, but AT&T doesn’t impact those things with a carrier update.
Apple even says to restart your iPhone after updating to get it to work…
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3880
still cant get it to work after rebooting, resetting the network settings and everything i think im gonna calla t&t it seems as though they havent even removed the code form my account.
The ability to edit a message thread (messages to and from a single user) was a function that was added in the 3.0 OS.
It’s not something that’s new with the carrier file update (v5.50). I’ve been using it since 3.0 was released to trim longer threads down to the messages I want to save, rather than having to kill the entire thread with the user, as you mentioned. It’s a great feature.
It’s just been around for a while longer than just today!
FYI guys…. if you don’t want to upgrade to 3.0.1 or 3.1… but still want MMS…
http://www.appleiphoneschool.com/2009/09/12/how-to-enable-mms-picture-messaging-on-your-iphone/