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Handy Hint 80:  Sending several photos from the Photos app

You can share the photos on your iPad (and iPhone) photos in email, text messages, photo streams, Twitter posts, and Facebook.  

There is the option to choose to share an individual photo or video, or several at once (limits apply in certain cases though).  Videos can be shared in email and text messages, and even on YouTube. 

Sharing of photos can be initiated from the Photos app, or from within the app that you want to use for the sharing (for example, Mail, Messages, Facebook, Twitter, etc).

In this hint we will look at sending several photos from the Photos App.

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Sharing several photos from the Photos App

There are a couple of ways to go about sharing multiple photos from the Photos app.

Option 1 - Start with an individual photo, then choose some more

Let's look at the first.  In this one, we follow the same process as described in Handy Hint 79 - ie view an individual photo in full screen mode, then choose the Share option at bottom left (box with arrow pointing upwards out of it).
Your Share options will then appear below the photo*, and your selected photo will show a 'tick' in a blue circle at the bottom right corner of the image
Now, before choosing which Share option you require, swipe left or right through your photos and tap any other photo/s you want to select - a tick in a blue circle will appear in the circle at bottom right of each photo you tap.

If you accidentally 'tick' a photo that is not actually required, just tap it again to 'untick' it.

Once you have finished selecting the set of photos you wish to send, touch on the required option for sharing your photos
  • Message to send a text/iMessage, 
  • Mail to send an email, 
  • Cloud to share via an iCloud 'Shared Stream'**.  

For Message and Mail, just fill in the recipient and any other details and send your photos!   

(Important Note:  If you send quite a few email, you will need to be careful that you email is not too big.  If it is too big, it will  not sent.  Refer to a separate handy hint on this topic here.)

Of course, you can also choose to share the photos you have selected on Facebook if you have Facebook installed on your device.
Option 2 - Select a set of photos, then choose 'Share'

This second option is my preferred method for selecting multiple photos to share or send.  When viewing the thumbnails of photos, choose Select at the top right of the screen.
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Tap on the photos to be shared - you will see ticks appear on each of the photos you tap. 
Tap again if you need to de-select.
Select the ‘share’ icon, this time at the top left of the screen.   
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This will then give you the set of Share options described earlier (something like the image on the right).

Choose your method of sending/sharing!
Some notes: 

* The other options that you see along the top row of the Share screen will depend on what Apps you have installed on your device.  Swipe from right to left to see any other options that may be available.

You will also note a series of other options in the second row, including the Print option.  You will be able to print the photo using this option if you have an Airprint capable WiFi printer. 

** The topic of Shared Streams is covered in the 'More Photos Stuff' guide from iTandCoffee.