Moto X: Cannot receive MMS photo messages from iPhones

[jayciro]

hi all, I new to this forum, so thanks in advance for your help.

I have a moto X on 4..4.2 android.

When a user from an iphone sends me 1 or more photos in a SMS 1 of 2 things happens:
1) I receive the message with the "play" button as you can see in the screen shot, but cannot view the photo. Instead I view the written portion of the message (which I can see in normal text view already)

or

2) I click into the thumbnail of the photo viewer and then it takes me a shrunken version of a slide show where i have no control of the length of time I can view a photo, download the photo, zoom into the photo, etc.

Both options are terrible.

Any ideas of how to fix this?

 

[4runnerbrett]

Never mind that won't work for this. I believe its really a iPhone thing. Not anything wrong on your end.

 

[KWKSLVR]

Re: Cannot receive SMS Photo messages from iPhones

It's an iPhone thing. I don't have that problem receiving from an iPhone 5/5s, only 4S and below.

If you are willing to use a 3rd party SMS app, GoSMS will "fix" it. Otherwise, ask the person texting you to send just a pic with no text. It's big time annoying. My Galaxy S did it, my GNex didn't do it stock, but did with Cyanogenmod.

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[KM Gardens]

Re: Cannot receive SMS Photo messages from iPhones

Had the same problem. I switched from an iPhone to Moto X. Apple still had my phone# registered in iCloud. Once I straightened that out everything was good

 

[blacksapphire08]

Re: Cannot receive SMS Photo messages from iPhones

Same here, its the iPhone doing it. Once my mom switched to a Droid i was able to see her pics.

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[portablealpha]

Re: Cannot receive SMS Photo messages from iPhones

You can save those pics that are inside of the slideshow. See here:

http://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-x/363169-my-workarounds-mms-photos-not-displaying.html

 

[NotJustAPhone]

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