About wireless sharing

What you can share

When sharing photos and videos

When deciding how to share your photos or videos, consider these factors:

  • Resolution (high versus low) of the photo or video; high resolution uses more data
  • Number of photos to share (one photo or a few or an entire vacation album)
  • Whether you want to share on the internet or from device-to-device
  • Length of availability for sharing

Ways to share

Method Description
Message (MMS)

Good for:

  • Sharing one photo or a low-resolution video
  • Sharing with a friend or group
  • Sharing immediately, as an event is happening

Things to consider:

  • You and your recipients must have cellular data plans to receive multimedia text messages.
  • Sending high resolution photos via text message uses more more data.
  • Photos and video remain available until the recipient deletes the message.
  • High quality videos are too large and cannot be shared in text messages.

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Email

Good for:

  • Sharing one or a few photos
  • Sharing with a friend or group

Things to consider:

  • Some email providers limit attachment sizes. For large files, upload the file to a cloud storage and email the link instead of the file.
  • Email attachments remain available for download until the recipient deletes the email.

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Cloud

Good for:

  • Sharing high resolution photos, multiple photos, entire albums, and videos
  • Controlling sharing via links
  • Controlling how long you share something (You can easily delete it or turn off sharing privileges.)

Things to consider:

  • Many cloud services offer free storage with a basic account.
  • Cloud storage services are fairly secure, but not completely free from security breaches, so upload wisely.
  • Upload over Wi-Fi to prevent cellular data charges.

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Social app

Good for:

  • Sharing publicly, with large groups of friends, followers, and subscribers
  • Sharing one photo at a time, or many photos, albums, or videos
  • Controlling how long you share something (You can easily delete it or turn off sharing.)

Things to consider:

  • Understand social network privacy and sharing policies before you post.
  • Review updates to social network privacy and sharing policies often.
  • Requires a Wi-Fi or cellular data connection.
Bluetooth

Good for:

  • Sharing from phone-to-phone or other connected device
  • Fast sharing

Things to consider: