How do I recieve a multimedia ( picture) to my iphone?

(I don’t have an iPhone so take this with a grain of salt.)

As far as I know, you can’t receive or send MMS messages (images, video, etc.) with the iPhone. You can, however, do all of that through your email.

Email

Have it sent to your email as an attachment. Until Apple makes some updates (which they never will) you cannot MMS.

It can be sent to the phone like normal, but it will send you a link to some AT&T web site with a cryptic username/password that you have to enter to retrieve your message. Then it’ll show you a tiny thumbnail of the picture. It’s one of the most glaringly horrible user experiences ever, and I’m really surprised Apple let the iPhone out the door with something so bad. But, if the person just types your email address instead of your phone number, it’ll go straight to email and work just fine.

You can also email their phone and it’ll come across on an MMS message. Just attach the photo to an email and use one of the address templates below to send it and it’ll come across as an MMS message to the recipient (if their phone supports it obviously).

Alltel – xxxxxxxxxx@message.alltel.com
AT&T – xxxxxxxxxx@mms.att.net
Boost Mobile – xxxxxxxxxx@myboostmobile.com
Einstein PCS – xxxxxxxxxx@einsteinmms.com
Sprint – xxxxxxxxxx@pm.sprint.com
T-Mobile – xxxxxxxxxx@tmomail.net
US Cellular – xxxxxxxxxx@mms.uscc.net
Verizon Wireless – xxxxxxxxxx@vzwpix.com
Virgin Mobile – xxxxxxxxxx@vmobl.com
Nextel – xxxxxxxxxx@messaging.nextel.com

@StellarAirman: are you sure that works with the iPhone? I was under the impression that it does not.

Am I sure what works with the iPhone? Emailing a picture to a phone? Yes, it does, I do it all the time.

You won’t get the MMS if you do that with an iPhone. It works with any MMS compatible phones, of which the iPhone is not.

Yeah, that’s what I thought. Do you have an iPhone, StellarAirman?

I’m pretty sure I just said that: “and it’ll come across as an MMS message to the recipient (if their phone supports it obviously).”

If someone is sending a photo to an iPhone from a Razr or something, then instead of sending the message to a cell phone number, they can send it to a regular email address like Gmail, which can then be checked on the iPhone Mail application. But to send an MMS from the iPhone to the Razr, you can use one of the email addresses above.

Yes, I do have an iPhone, do either of you?

Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood your comment; I thought you meant that if you sent a photo to the iPhone’s phone number, it would come through as an MMS on the iPhone. That’s why I was confused.

such courtesy