Making the "Web Gallery" button appear on your iPhone, not showing up for some
We originally postulated that Apple would soon be releasing a software update for the iPhone that adds a "Send to Web Gallery" function to the Camera application.
However, it now looks like the option is already appearing for some users, and may only be enabled if you have a .Mac email account set up on your iPhone, and may require a reset to appear (hold down the sleep and home buttons simultaneously until the Apple logo appears). To put a .Mac account on your iPhone, go to the Settings application and select Mail, then create a new .Mac email account credentials.
A .Mac support page states:
"To add photos directly from iPhone to your .Mac Web Gallery: Make sure you've set up your .Mac email account on your iPhone. [...] If you don't see the Send To Gallery item, make sure you've set up your .Mac email address on your phone and that your iPhone has the latest software updates."
Unfortunately, we still did not receive this added button after setting up a .Mac account on our iPhone, performing a reset, and making sure the software was up to date. Several readers have noted a similar situation.
The button links with new .Mac iPhone integration functionality that allows photos to be sent directly from the iPhone to the new "Web Gallery" function (which offers an app-like interface to photos stored online). The same Web Gallery can be directly accessed in an iPhone-optimized fashion.
Are you seeing the new button? Please let us know at info@iphoneatlas.com.
Once you have CHECKED your .Mac email using the IPhone it will show the Send To Gallery option.
However, I think you must have ILife '08 for it to completly work.
Even after installing iLife '08, I had trouble getting the phone to work -- I kept getting the message that I had to configure my galleries to allow updates from mobile devices, but on the .Mac side I could find nothing to specifically allow/deny "mobile devices".
Turns out what they *really* want you to do is allow updates to galleries via email.
When you create an album in your photo galleries, you can control if the album can be viewed by everyone, just you, or only people who you allow (you create user names & passwords and provide them to your friends). You can then control whether visitors are allowed to submit photos to your album via web browser uploads and/or via email. You _must_ enable the "email" updates feature for the iPhone "Send to Web Gallery" function to work correctly. Each album can have it's own security settings. The iPhone checks each album in your gallery page for permissions and then displays a list of all albums which allow updates via email.
Only iLife '08 has this "Galleries" feature. If you don't update to iLife '08 then you can't use the feature on your phone (it'll show up... you just can't get it to do anything.)
- by jdirienzo_dotmac August 10, 2007 8:09 PM PDT
- Tried for several days to get the "Send to Web Gallery" button to appear with no success even though I have a .Mac account which was automatically set up on the iPhone when activated and synced with iTunes. I also had installed Update 1.0.1 and have iTunes 7.3.2. Finally today I deleted the .Mac mail account on the iPhone and set it up again using the Add Account feature in the Mail Settings. After a short period of time on the charger the "Send to Web Gallery" button appeared without turning off Wi-Fi and without resetting or rebooting the iPhone. Seems like the .Mac mail account created during the initial sync with iTunes was not recognized for the addition of the web gallery button.
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