Texting screenshots on iPhone XR

January 25, 2019 11:43 AM

Simply put, I got this new phone and I can’t do it any more. Why?

Recently I got an iPhone XR (upgrading from a 6s). Previously, I could take a screenshot and then immediately text it by clicking on the inset that pops up when you take a screenshot. I could also mail it, add it to Notes, post it on Facebook or Twitter, etc.

When I switched to the new iPhone, the option to send via text is suddenly missing. I can still do all the other things, but the Messages app is not on my list of options. It is also not listed under ‘More’ out to the right.

I have iMessages turned off, and also had it turned off on my previous phone. Googling this issue has not been successful.

Any ideas?

posted by markslack to Technology (4 answers total)

When you tap on the inset screenshot and it takes you to that editing/markup screen, you still see the little share icon (arrow coming out of a box) on the lower left? When you click there, you get two rows of icons. If you scroll all the way to the left of the top row, you should see "more" with three dots. If you tap on that you can add or remove different activities and drag them to reorder them. Do you see messages anywhere on there? Perhaps it is way at the end now?
posted by This_Will_Be_Good at 12:56 PM on January 25, 2019

Do you have MMS enabled? Settings / Messages / MMS Messaging
posted by bradf at 2:57 PM on January 25, 2019

Response by poster: @This_Will_Be_Good: that’s what I was trying to allude to in my second-to-last paragraph.

Apparently I do have to have iMessages on, which is strange - was on the same version of iOS on my 6s and didn’t have it turned on, but this worked fine there.

I had turned iMessage off years ago because i wasn’t getting group texts at all when it was on at the time. I’ll give it another whirl and hopefully I won’t have that issue. Thanks everyone!
posted by markslack at 3:49 PM on January 25, 2019

I have an Android and group texts with my friends with iPhones and iMessages enabled often don't work properly. Most of my friends have moved to Whatsapp with/for me (I'm the only Android user I know) so we can text seamlessly as a group, which is super annoying.
posted by sockermom at 7:44 PM on January 25, 2019