Nuance of texting pictures

[Dbsoccer]

When I want to send a picture, via a text, I go to my pictures Photos gallery, click 'Select' in the upper righthand corner and then touch on the picture(s) I want to text. When I'm finished selecting I touch on the "Share" icon in the lower left corner (a square box with an arrow pointed up out of the box). I then select the green Messages icon which takes me into the all familiar text messaging screen. No issues up to this point.

A few days ago I sent a person a group of 4 or 5 pictures via text. And when they opened the text message the pictures were organized in booklet-like format. Today I sent this same person, using the same phones on both ends, a group of pictures but this second time the pictures appeared more like individual pictures and not in booklet-like arrangement.

The preference would be to have the pictures received in the booklet arrangement.

Can someone shed some light on why this happened?

 

[KevinJS]

Just been checking that out. It would appear that the booklet format is standard. Where I have sent or received multiple images, they only appear to be split if there is accompanying text. I’ll keep digging and see if I can figure it out.

 

[Dbsoccer]

Thank you Kevin! Much appreciated. I'll experiment sending with and without accompanying text.

 

[KevinJS]

No problem. Doesn’t appear to be a limit of the number of pics in a booklet. I’ve had up to 20 images and videos sent to me at a time.

The first time I noticed this booklet effect was a few years ago, so it’s nothing to do with the newer operating systems. It’s certainly a tidier way of receiving multiple images.

 

[KevinJS]

Done some more digging. The photo stacking was introduced with iOS 15 and is the default behaviour. Since it cannot be disabled, groups of images should not show up individually.

 

[Dbsoccer]

In my experimenting I found that if you send 4 or more pictures (with or without comments) the pictures are received in booklet form. With less than 4 they are received as separate pictures.

Thoughts?

 

[KevinJS]

It seems that messages are sent and received differently when using non-Apple devices. I recently sent 5 images to my wife, which she received on her android phone as a list.

Apart from that, images in my messages bear out your observations.