Share with Messages and AirDrop (macOS/iOS)

In addition to the export options shared earlier in this chapter, macOS users have a couple of additional choices: sharing to Messages and AirDrop. These options make it easy to share photos via text message from your computer or with another macOS or iOS device nearby.

Sharing with Messages on macOS

Messages on macOS allows you to send text messages to users with an iCloud account or wireless phone users if you have an iPhone associated with your iCloud account.

1. Select the photo(s) you wish to share.
2. Click the Share icon from the right sidebar and choose Messages.
3. Select the export options you’d like to use.
4. Click the Create Message button to launch the Messages app. Enter the recipient’s name or phone number and click Send.
   

Sharing Photos of People via Messages

If you’ve used Mylio Photos facial recognition to tag friends and family and then added contact information for those people, you can use PhotoExplorer to share a single photo or quickly create a text message with every photo you’ve tagged with them in.

1. Click the People icon in the left sidebar, and select a person.
2. Click the info icon at the top of the right sidebar to reveal the right panel and access the Info Panel.
3. Click on the chat bubble icon at the top of the Info Panel to create a text message with every photo that person is tagged in.
   

Sharing with AirDrop on macOS

AirDrop on macOS allows you to wirelessly share photos with nearby macOS and iOS users.

1. Select the photo(s) you wish to share.
2. Click the Share icon from the right sidebar and choose AirDrop.
3. Select the export options you’d like to use.
4. Click the Share button to launch AirDrop. Select the nearby user you wish to share with to initiate the transfer.