Streamlining Your Content Creation: Adding Images From Your Phone With Ease

We’re excited to share a new feature in the desktop editor and Jetpack mobile app that makes it a breeze to upload media to your WordPress posts and pages.   

April 4, 2024

Enej Bajgorić

The internet is rife with small annoyances, which often lead to breakthroughs in user experience. For example, needing to hit “refresh” or “next page” led to infinite scroll, which is now baked into our media consumption habits. 

Today, we’re excited to share a new feature in the desktop editor and Jetpack mobile app that eliminates one of those small annoyances and makes it a breeze to upload media to your WordPress posts and pages.   

While working in the editor on your laptop or desktop device, you can now seamlessly add photos directly from your phone. 

Here’s how to do it: 

  1. Insert an “Image” or “Gallery” Block on your post/page. 
  2. Click “Select Image”: From the dropdown menu, select “Your Phone.”
  1. Use your phone to scan the QR code: This will automatically open the Jetpack app and then your photo library. 
  2. Choose your image(s): From there, simply click the image or images you wish to add to your post/page.
  3. Click “Add”: Watch your image(s) automagically appear in your desktop editor.

Check it out in action below:

We hope this will inspire you to snap even more photos and share them with the world. 

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33 Comments

  1. Caco Martín Apr 4th at 8:21 pm

    It looks awesome, one question: it converts .heic photos from IPhone to .jpeg seamlessly?

    Liked by 8 people

  2. ~Curiosity~ Apr 4th at 8:26 pm

    Super easy! I’ve been using and loving it! Thank you! 👍🏼👍🏼

    Liked by 8 people

  3. JanBeek Apr 4th at 8:40 pm

    Thank you for making JetPack/WordPress ever increasingly easy & fun to use!

    Liked by 7 people

  4. Rita de Heer Apr 4th at 9:59 pm

    It’ll be interesting to see if it is easier than emailing the pic to my self, and saving the attachments to the file where I keep them.

    Liked by 9 people

  5. Ana Daksina Apr 4th at 11:41 pm

    This is cool ~ but I’ve been adding images seamlessly from my handheld device for over six years! You guys rock 🙋

    Liked by 3 people

  6. elCaminohike Apr 5th at 5:24 am

    Q: if I use this feature, will the photos still go into WP media folder, and increase the size. Or are they only on the blog? Thanks for clarifying.

    Liked by 5 people

  7. Eugi Apr 5th at 11:17 am

    Awesome! Woohoo!

    Liked by 2 people

  8. scribesveritas Apr 5th at 4:19 pm

    Did I read somewhere that uploading through the app optimises (reduces file size). I assume that’s the same in these cases?

    Really pleased to see this and other user-centric improvements 👌

    Liked by 1 person

  9. Sue Loeffler Apr 5th at 5:49 pm

    Thank you! What an awesome new tool! I feel like I just got a package on my front porch! A true gift!

    Liked by 3 people

  10. Ahmed Mohammed Apr 6th at 3:15 am

    Very nice job

    Like

  11. mariahkansinga Apr 6th at 8:31 am

    thank ue

    Liked by 1 person

  12. RAYHANS Apr 6th at 10:12 am

    Thanks for the tips 😀

    Liked by 1 person

  13. Carlos Azenha Apr 6th at 2:55 pm

    This makes things easier

    Liked by 3 people

  14. Barnabas C. Peter Apr 6th at 9:00 pm

    No stress to build your website

    Liked by 1 person

  15. sobombandboujee Apr 7th at 3:47 am

    That’s nice

    Liked by 2 people

  16. Delower Apr 7th at 5:53 am

    Hi Good Morning I’m md delowar Hossain, earlier time I’m open the website.but im forget it the name & password can you Help me, I want return to my website please help me. Thanks.

    Best Regards Delowar Hossain

    Liked by 3 people

  17. Jeanne Bryan Insalaco Apr 8th at 5:10 pm

    Awesome addition but I always resize my photos before uploading to keep room in my free allowance. It’d be great to be able to resize your photos for a smaller imprint in your allocated space within WordPress.

    Liked by 2 people

    • Tanner Stokes Apr 12th at 2:26 pm

      Hi Jeanne, I just wanted to share that the Jetpack app has optimization options where you can set a maximum image resolution and quality level for uploaded images. This not only impacts how much space is used, but how quickly images upload from your device.

      If you weren’t aware of this setting there’s more information here!

      Liked by 2 people

  18. Yaeesh muhammed Apr 9th at 11:41 am

    I used it a little bit !

    Liked by 1 person

  19. digitalish9 Apr 10th at 1:40 pm

    Great 👍

    Liked by 3 people

  20. krys Apr 11th at 6:56 am

    Yay!!!! So excited seeing this

    Liked by 3 people

  21. mishkatmoumin Apr 13th at 4:23 am

    Great post!

    Liked by 2 people

  22. Somtochukwu Samuel Apr 17th at 4:04 pm

    Thanks for the information. It’s helpful.

    Liked by 4 people

  23. Christina Apr 23rd at 8:55 pm

    thanks for the very valuable info! 🙂

    Liked by 2 people

  24. Ganga, Carvingmypath Apr 24th at 10:27 pm

    This is awesome 👏😊 can’t wait to use this feature 😊

    Liked by 1 person

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