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How to send photos in order in iMessage

Why iMessage changes the order

The iOS Photos picker hands your selection to Messages in library order, so tapping carefully changes nothing. The shuffle is visible before you even hit send, and it has been reported across many iOS versions.

The manual workaround

The reliable manual fix is to send each photo as its own message, which is slow and floods the chat.

The route that keeps it to one message

With PicOrder, share the numbered batch in one message. Even if Messages shuffles the thumbnails, the numbers make the sequence obvious.

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