It is possible to send multiple photos in an email on the iPhone, but you need to start in the iPhone’s Photo app, not the Mail app like you’d assume. Below are step-by-step instructions for attaching multiple photos to an email.

1. Launch the Photo App:

2. Tap the album where the photos are located:

3. You’ll see a bunch of thumbnails of the pictures in the album. Tap the Share button in the bottom left corner:

4. Tap the pictures you want to share in the email (you can tap more than one). A red check mark will appear on each photo to indicate you’ve selected it:

5. Tape Share in the bottom left.

6. Tap Email:

7. A new email will pop up with your photos inserted into the email:

Choose your recipients, write a subject and message, and hit Send.

Notes and Tips:

In Step 5, you’ll also notice a button that says Copy. Selecting Copy will also let you share multiple photos in an email–it just takes a few more steps than using the Share button (with Copy, you’ll have to open the Mail app yourself and then paste the photos).

Using the Copy button does have one big advantage: it allows you to send full-resolution pictures. You may not know that the iPhone automatically shrinks your pictures taken with the iPhone’s camera from 2048 x 1536 to 800 x 600 in size when you send them in an email via Share. Use Copy and Paste to get the full resolution.

The main downside to using Copy to share photos is that the email will take much longer to send over 3G/EDGE because of the larger file sizes.

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