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edboc

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Is there a way to turn off photos taken in iMessage saving to photos?
In iOS11, taking a photo in iMessage would not save to photos.
Thank you in advance
 
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edboc said:
Is there a way to turn off photos taken in iMessage saving to photos?
In iOS11, taking a photo in iMessage would not save to photos.
Thank you in advance
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It currently does not appear to be possible. I like certain aspects of the new interface, but I do wish it was possible to not save pictures taken in Messages. It was nice for taking selfies to send to my wife, for example. I don’t need a bunch of pictures of myself.
 
mikzn said:
easy enough to delete them? seems like a good feature to me - if you take the photo from messages auto add to photos and manage there - makes sense to me !

That way if you forget where you took that "incredible photo" you won't be mad about losing it?
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I don't disagree that I can just as easily delete them, it'd be nice to have a setting that the user can configure to turn this on or off.
 
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edboc said:
I don't disagree that I can just as easily delete them, it'd be nice to have a setting that the user can configure to turn this on or off.
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Agreed, it’s proberly my biggest annoyance. Now I have to go through my photos every few days and deleted all the pics I took as part of a message.
 
I feel like when I want to take a photo, I use Camera. But the only times I use the Camera feature within Messages is when I want to send someone a random picture to quickly show them something. So having those photos end up in my Camera Roll is just clutter for me.
 
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kevo0822 said:
I feel like when I want to take a photo, I use Camera. But the only times I use the Camera feature within Messages is when I want to send someone a random picture to quickly show them something. So having those photos end up in my Camera Roll is just clutter for me.
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Yes, which is also why it's annoying that they moved the method of sending a photo down to the app drawer. I don't keep my app drawer open because I never use it and the camera button is right there. Now there is a wasted space for a camera button that I never use to take photos and an app drawer which I only use to send photos.

probably just me and I'll get used to it
 
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PN4 said:
Yes, which is also why it's annoying that they moved the method of sending a photo down to the app drawer. I don't keep my app drawer open because I never use it and the camera button is right there. Now there is a wasted space for a camera button that I never use to take photos and an app drawer which I only use to send photos.

probably just me and I'll get used to it
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No it’s not just you. I agree it is very irritating and an unnecessary change.
Please send feedback to Apple.

I really dislike the app drawer in iMessage but it seems it is being forced upon us in iOS 12.

See thread here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/two-questions-about-imessage.2128265/
 
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Another annoying piece of this is that if you take a picture from the camera it saves as HEIC, but if you take a picture from the camera within messages it saves as a JPG. iOS 11 (with the photo drawer and mini camera) was a much better approach IMO.
 
dav said:
Another annoying piece of this is that if you take a picture from the camera it saves as HEIC, but if you take a picture from the camera within messages it saves as a JPG. iOS 11 (with the photo drawer and mini camera) was a much better approach IMO.
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Yeah, just submitted the format issue again as a bug. I can't imagine that it's intentional... what purpose could that possibly serve??
 
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dav said:
Another annoying piece of this is that if you take a picture from the camera it saves as HEIC, but if you take a picture from the camera within messages it saves as a JPG. iOS 11 (with the photo drawer and mini camera) was a much better approach IMO.
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I'm testing on an old 6+, so I can't validate this. But just out of curiosity, did it perhaps save as JPG because the person you were sending it to wasn't on iMessage? If the person you're sending to isn't on an Apple device, it would need to send a JPG instead of HEIC. Does it also save it as JPG if you're sending to another Apple device?
 
I'm a bit annoyed by the fact that the photo button opens the camera right away, instead of giving us the most recently taken photos with the option to take a new photo.

100% of the time I send a photo in Messages, I'm sending a photo I already took with the Camera app. Do most people not do it this way?
 
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100% of the time I send a photo in Messages, I'm sending a photo I already took with the Camera app. Do most people not do it this way?
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I do it that way. But only because photos taken in the Messages app don't save to the camera roll. Now that that's changed, my habits may as well.
 
MEJHarrison said:
I'm testing on an old 6+, so I can't validate this. But just out of curiosity, did it perhaps save as JPG because the person you were sending it to wasn't on iMessage? If the person you're sending to isn't on an Apple device, it would need to send a JPG instead of HEIC. Does it also save it as JPG if you're sending to another Apple device?
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Yup, saves as JPG regardless of who I’m texting!
 
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My wife and I We tried to share multiple photos with each other. When the photo arrived it was pushed to some iCloud sharing service. We don’t want that. Is this a glitch
 
jbindy1 said:
My wife and I We tried to share multiple photos with each other. When the photo arrived it was pushed to some iCloud sharing service. We don’t want that. Is this a glitch
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As in went to the shared iCloud library?

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I think what @jbindy1 is referring to is the “iCloud Link” capability where, rather than sending the pictures directly, iOS 12 will upload them to iCloud and generate a link. I haven’t used it too much so not sure of the capabilities out there. It’s newer functionality.
 
dav said:
I think what @jbindy1 is referring to is the “iCloud Link” capability where, rather than sending the pictures directly, iOS 12 will upload them to iCloud and generate a link. I haven’t used it too much so not sure of the capabilities out there. It’s newer functionality.
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This is a welcome addition IMHO.

There are many times I forward pics to myself to save in another location. The game of "how many pics can I send via email without exceeding the size limit" was not fun to play.

Now I just select and send....the iCloud link thingy works great!
 
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