The long-awaited iPhone MMS service is finally here!
When I first received my iPhone last year, I was ignorant to the fact that it did not have Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). I figured, just like every other modern phone, I’d be able to send picture messages to my friends. I was pretty disappointed when I found out the truth – the iPhone did not support MMS! WTF! I have internet, mail, GPS, games, music, apps for “just about” anything- but I can’t send a photo via a text message?? How could such an accessory-filled phone be so behind in times?
This almost changed in June when the iPhone 3.0 was released. Since then, the iPhone itself has been MMS-capable, but AT&T was still behind. The hold-up to actually being able to use the service is that AT&T still needed to upgrade their infrastructure to handle the increased MMS traffic that us iPhone users will burden their network with.
In early September, AT&T finally gave us an official date of September 25th and promised that MMS will be enabled through a software upgrade.
And now – it is finally here and people around the US are slowly receiving their MMS capabilities. Be sure you have iPhone 3.1 installed, then you can proceed with installing the quick Carrier 5.5 update. Be patient – it’s been out for a little over an hour and there are people who still aren’t seeing the update. Your time will come!
To upgrade:
- Connect your iPhone to your computer
- Open iTunes (if it does not open automatically)
- Make sure you already have iPhone 3.1 software – if you don’t, upgrade now!
- Click Check for Update (if you do not have it checking automatically)
- Upgrade the carrier version
- Once this is complete, reset your iPhone
- Have fun sending your friends photos (or like most of us, have fun with a feature that you had on your OLD phones…)
Learn how to use MMS: iPhone MMS Walk-through from the iPhone Blog