Getting the "Send to Web Gallery" button on the iPhone work
The "Send to Web Gallery" function added to iPhones over the past several days has caused some confusion. 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.
For some, the button didn't appear, despite having a valid .Mac account enabled on their phone per Apple's instruction. For the users who did start to see the button, it wasn't immediately clear how it functioned. As written by one reader:
"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.'
Here's what you need to do to make the "Send to Web Gallery" functional on your iPhone.
- Upgrade to iLife '08, which includes iPhoto '08 (version 7.0.x) -- the only release of iPhoto that supports Web galleries.
- Create an album in your photo galleries, and upload them to .Mac by sending the album to your Web gallery.
- In the control settings for 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. As noted by an iPhone Atlas reader "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."
Feedback? info@iphoneatlas.com.
I've got the button on the phone but when I press it I get the message 'None of your .Mac accounts have been configured for posting from mobile devices. You must first enable this feature on the .Mac website."
I installed iLive '08.
I open iPhoto and create a small album (2 photos) named "iPhone".
I select the album and click on the Web Gallery button. And allow uploading by email in the dialog that appears. I then get an error "Request to the server failed".
I can't find anything on .Mac to configure, so I'm lost...
It's working great for me.
But then, you should make sure to go into iPhoto, select one of the web galleries, and send yourself an invitation (Tell a Friend) that you receive and open in email (.Mac) on the iPhone. From there, you tap the link to the web gallery, and once that link has been made, you should be all set.
Not sure why Apple made it this hard, but if you perform this final step, you should be in web gallery heaven.
- by hfm August 14, 2007 3:37 PM PDT
- Finally got this to work. After all the various upgrades and other advice and much frustration, the final step to get the button to show up was just to restart my phone (hold sleep/wake button down for several seconds, confirm, then start it up again.
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