How To Resize Photos With a Shortcut On Your iPhone Or iPad

macmost.com/e-2840 If you want to share a photo from your Photos Library or a file on your iPhone or iPad, you can use this Shortcut to resize it and convert it first. A very simple Shortcut can be used to do it for one photo, and a slightly more complex one can do it for multiple photos.
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00:00 Intro
00:37 Simplest One Photo Shortcut
03:57 Multiple Photos
07:11 Testing It Out
#macmost #mactutorial

[@charlesk1963]

This video was extremely helpful. I'm a computer graphics professional, and not being able to resize images directly on my iPhone was getting old. Your tutorial was straightforward and clear without any unnecessary padding. Thank you so much!

[@NoCapGolf]

This was amazingly helpful! Thank you. If you are doing large amounts of photos you have to go to the settings and scroll down to the shortcuts setting and change it to allow you to share large files or you will get a message not allowing it.

[@loisskiathitis8926]

A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Great topic today! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️

[@gerrykelly979]

Thank you very much, I've spent 2 hours earlier trying to resize a 1.7 MB photo to a 300 KB jpeg using both iphone and mac and it was a nightmare aaarrrgggh However my wife found your video which explains the sequence of actions using the shortcuts app on my iPhone. Brilliant! and the calm and clear explanation in a relaxed way by you really helped. Thank you!! Gerry

[@meaganblevins7158]

Most helpful KZbin video I have ever watched in my life and so thankful it popped up on google. Also very well made and very well explained. Thorough. I really appreciate this video. Thank you!

[@JustMatt01]

Wow - so cool. This is what I was looking for a very long time! Thank you so much!

[@catherinegiven5504]

Your videos are so clear and simple. What a wealth of information! Thank you for sharing these!

[@chevroletimpala1659]

Thanks Gary! Excellent! Nailed the shortcut. And I’m an old guy. Would never made it without your tutorial.

[@danmarsden4609]

Brilliant video... I was pulling my hair out with the new ios 16 update, after it broke my image resizing shortcuts and this has sorted it, pure and simple!

[@grheryford]

Awesome instructions and screenshots!!! Thank you!

[@user-dg4xt7lo9s]

Exactly the information I needed. Thank you so much!!

[@emmettturner9452]

Any way to resize for a desired print size? For example, I want to print a CD cover but it prints bigger than an entire Letter-sized page. A standard CD cover is 120x120mm but the pixels to achieve this size would obviously depend on the DPI of the image and printer. If I could specify the print size as 120mm regardless then I’d be all set.

[@jacquelinestuerzl]

Thank you for this video!

[@gg31be]

Thanks! A very usefull diy shortcut action without installing a special app (with ads 🙂).

[@H_A_L_7]

Ads I hate them Bought some cat games for my cats suddenly they’re full of ads I cannot believe it. I would think if you purchase these games no ads My cat has given up on her fishes, still watching the mouse I learn today to watch the whole video first before attempting to do the edit…I had to slow the vid down Its very handy, will see if I can do simple editing using this short cuts

[@user-dn8wn7vn2e]

Many Thanks! Excellent tutorial ! 😁

[@defenderofmen11]

This helped me so much. I post on different social media sites and each has different requirements for minimum/maximum image size. This saves me so much time.

[@Heatherban300]

Thank you. Very helpful tutorial.

[@21coolcat21]

Thanks for the great walkthrough! When you're new to how the Shortcuts app works, everything seems so gnarly! You "ungnarled" it for me!

[@dawngustafson4717]

This was very helpful, thinking to created for PDF files as well, thanks for sharing

[@coloradoleen]

Thank you SO MUCH for this video!! I am a new iPad user and have been looking for a way to resize my photos to use on my blog. This is just what I needed!

[@BGMaastricht]

Great Shortcuts-tutorial! 👍

[@TheHerb2k3]

This was super helpful and did exactly what I needed it to do! Thank you so much for this video!

[@GigaTyrone1]

Thanks man awesome video very helpful👍🏾

[@markreeves7116]

Wow! Awesome shortcut! Thanks 😊

[@thinker4685]

This is fantastic. Thanks for the great video☺

[@nickywilcox942]

Superb! SO helpful.

[@SpecialPhysX]

I mean, WOW! Not being a coder or something cool like that myself, this was the COOLEST thing that I have ever done with my iPhone!!! Great video, perfect instruction and it totally works so I can now send snaps to people who don't have iPhones (format issues). I am now on the hunt for other MacMost videos cuz, um, coolness!!!

[@brilof2112]

Thank you so much! I had one additional step I had to take on my XR, I had to turn my phone off and back on before the shortcut would show up as an option in the photo app. I had stopped sending imbedded photos in emails because of sizing so, again, huge thank you for this excellent video.

[@IKaramian]

Thank you! That's exactly what I needed.

[@stingus]

Hi! Thank you for the video! It's a really useful shortcut!

[@stsxt05]

Incredibly useful shortcut thank you Gary

[@unreeel2105]

Thank you for your help!

[@user-lr4zb5tf1v]

Can't thank you enough, very helpful!

[@PROTECTIVEDOORLOCKCOVERS]

I love your videos, You are the best!

[@estreetmusic]

This is awesome, Thank you very much! This saves me so much Time!!

[@MsDior666]

This was awesome. Thank you.

[@MyOwnWayMusic]

Brilliant !! Thank you

[@pdoggie77]

Thanks you sooooo much!!! So much better then other options out there 🙌🏻

[@zonuleofzinn3586]

Love the video ❤

[@japhdanaoofficial2205]

Amazing! It works! Deserves a sub 👍🏼👌🏻

[@kirkize]

Thank you for the help !

[@carolinepackarddpt]

wow this was so incredibly helpful, I had no idea you could do this! thank you!

[@fbelfiore00]

Well done!

[@janallen6165]

Wow, this is amazing!!! Thank you! Now I can print my iphotos in 4x6 format without losing half the pic!

[@jamm717]

Kudos !!! A great step by step video that helped me figure out how to resize my photos easily. Thank you best info video I’ve seen in a while !!!

[@TinyFlyThing]

OH this is so good. I really did a stupid workaround before, but this is so handy! Thanks so much for these shortcut videos 😍

[@yay-cat]

That was epic thank you! Any ideas on the best way for me to share the resized pics to my iPad. So I don’t sync apples photo album across my devices at all because I don’t want my personal photos on my work stuff (laptop; iPad). But it would be epic if, when I go to a building site and take like 300 photos (always on phone), if a resized version of only those photos could make it onto my iPad where I’m making notes scribbling on the building plan. The iPad has a sim but sometimes signal is dodgy so I dunno if I could make a temporary Wi-Fi type network between just the two devices. Like I don’t need a backup on iCloud till after I get home or to the hotel. But like sending 300 photos over airdrop in one go is also going to end in tears (though I haven’t tried with resized). Like it would be nice if I had a way to say ok from now till when I hit stop save all folders to a specific folder or album, resize them and immediately sync them to the iPad. I’m asking too much I know but a girl can dream haha

[@user-pm4wx7un1v]

Thank you 🎉😍

[@margauxj-broussel9186]

Thanks for providing an updated version for iOS 16 of one of my most used shortcut. However, 2 bigs caveats that I tried to fix myself, but was not proficient enough with Shortcut to properly do it: #1 Resize will occur as well if image is smaller that the requested size. Therefore the image will be upscaled and I don’t want that, if smaller I just want to go to the JPG compression and Metadata removal. #2 I would prefer to use “longest measurement” (height or width) rather than width so output is consistent in maximum size (portrait / landscape).

[@Diego.Silva.]

Thank you very much! It was amazing! 🇧🇷

[@me_noraah4614]

I can’t describe how much this video is useful for me, thank you soo much

[@sbkecontent4694]

Thanks a lot 🌺

[@brandnew622]

Thank you 🙏🏾

[@davidrandolph3668]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

[@krehbein]

Initially, I was going to make a comment about why it’s such a long video for such a simple task. But I had no idea you could build such complex actions, very cool. Thanks for sharing.

[@designvoronin]

You are genius! Thank you a lot!

[@justmyopinion2205]

Great learning lesson on creating short cuts! I did have to sloooow down your rate of speech and that worked out great. It felt kinda like programming in old BASIC. Assembly is what I love most, but after a couple days I got it. I kept messing up because I didn’t notice the blue DONE bar that would appear at the top of the screen, that required my selecting it after some of the, I believe were, variable changes. Thank you very much for your tutorial, it’s very good. 🤝

[@HJ-su7px]

thank you for your useful video from Korea 👍

[@desertpatient]

Thanks bunches

[@terinan]

Hi - after setting up my resize shortcut, it wasn’t on my share sheet? what do i need to do to get it to show there when i select a photo? oh i turned off my phone and back on and it is there … thank you for the tutorial!1

[@WanderingAroundAZ]

Wow! Shortcuts is a pretty robust app. Thanks!

[@mrmagoo-778]

I had issue on a iPad with a some images refusing to resize. Converted image first then resize worked.

[@y6ixcory594]

This is amazing it helps with my album cover

[@juliak.4632]

New Info Undated. Thank you for Gary’s great tips and it worked out after I tried another 3 hrs. 😅 I followed your video for multiple photos but the function isn’t working anymore. My updated software is iOS 16.7.2, and actually your first 3 minutes video is possible for multiple instead of single photo now!! I also figured out that I need to add “Get” (shortcuts from…) in order to have a camera resize icon in share under the photo app. Thank you for your tutorial and I hope this update info could help someone out there!✌🏻😃

[@pcofranc]

Krazy! Pixel 2 lifetime android user got my first iphone 13 last week. Followed all steps and told my brother about this and will share the video with him. THANKs! 3.8MB squashed to 640xauto down to like 150 KB and still looks decent (on a small phone screen).

[@Woolwine]

This help me so much. I found an image really wanted to use it for my Xbox account, but it was too small.

[@MrDunk66]

Can I ask a question because I am going stir crazy searching the internet: in iPadOS, does double tapping the image zoom in to 100% (1:1) so that the image is shown pixel per pixel at the screen resolution? And If I want to view the image at the resolution I might be printing at (eg 200ppi), how can I adjust the zoom to show this? I am not sure what the iPad does when zooming in at greater than 1:1, does it interpolate the image? Also, zoom pinching maxes out, (cannot zoom infinitely), at what zoom level is this? Thanks

[@macmost]

What you get when you double-tap an image will depend on the app you are using. I don't think it goes to a specific zoom level, like 1:1 though.

[@tobyr8555]

Hi Gary, thats great thanks! Can you add a way to strip the exif info within the same shortcut? I quite like stripping the exif data before sending photos through Facebook messenger etc

[@macmost]

Yes, when you use the export action it is one of the options.

[@tobyr8555]

@@macmost Thanks, sorry I missed that! This was a really helpful video, thanks for that. I had a similar shortcut that always failed for multiple photos. This works so well, so cheers for the upload!

[@michaell5038]

Clever 👍

[@zonuleofzinn3586]

Is there anyway we can make it create like a border around it, like some apps do, in order to make a picture fit for an Instagram post?

[@macmost]

Yes, but it will take a lot more work. For your purpose though, why not crop it in the Photos app with the ratio set to Square, then export or share directly from Photos.

[@GMatje59]

Very good instruction, thanks. The reason for me to resize an image is to reduce the total size of foto's. So I wonder if anyone knows a method which can add some steps to this routine to delete the original foto's after the resize.

[@macmost]

You would just have to manually delete it. But reducing the size of individual photos is a bad way to save space. You'll regret the loss in quality of your photos of friends, family, events and such at some point in the future.

[@glenn_r_frank_author]

So.. I got the script working on my iphone... and shared the script to my wifes phone (same model and ios) ... the script was not accessible on her sharesheet for photos... I checked the share sheet settings on the script and when she ran it hte first time it did ask if it should allow access to the photos once, ask each time... or always. we chose always. But the shortcut script still does not show on the sharesheet menu in photos. Is there some other setting we are missing?

[@macmost]

Maybe try removing it and adding it back again?

[@vanessadaws6433]

Thanks for that tutorial. Is there a way to change the photo dpi? From 72dpi to 300dpi?

[@macmost]

See kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZq0Xn5qfpmdl6c

[@lovethyneighbor89]

How do I resize photos in the word doc app on the ipad?

[@Arifkhan786]

thank you so much got like and subscribe from me. you are a star ⭐️

[@jbp500]

Thank you! You just saved me after trying to figure it out for 6 hours

[@veritas.ve.42]

Informative & useful as always. 👍🏻 Please do a couple of shortcuts video involving the Notes & Reminder apps. Capturing notes from safari & other apps, any other in-depth use cases you can think of. Likewise for reminder too. Thank you.

[@macmost]

What would you like to do, specifically?

[@veritas.ve.42]

@@macmost Nothing specific. Just interested in your perspective.

[@atelierdessinzen]

Thank you so much for this video🙏 !! I even managed to do it with "french menu" and my english is not good 😉

[@y6ixcory594]

You are a genius

[@amethystsalvacion9664]

Nice Is there possible about selfie? I need to send selfie but they need only 2mb size i try to change the settings in app but it didn’t work

[@macmost]

You can use this for it. Or, just do it in any image editing app that has an export function. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4rLaI1qjJuFeJo

[@ramroad2008]

Did they remove the “done” for when your finished in the 17.5 update? I can create a shortcut but no where does it say done.

[@hana527]

Great video. I wanbt a photo that ends up 667 kb or less. What parameters do I put in the resize?

[@macmost]

You’ll have to try different sizes to see. Compression is different depending on the content of the photo.

[@sarahdicken]

I’ve got so many photos taking up space on my iPad I’ve been going mad looking for apps to resize them, keeping the metadata! You are a genius, thank you so much!!!!

[@ChristianLouwPedersen]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. I just managed to get it right in danish 🤔

[@kimhartleywellywood]

Great video If you are on an ipad, the instructions to change the icon for your new shortcut, are a little different. (At 2:58 in this video) After creating the shortcut and going back into edit the short cut, you wont find a drop down arrow beside the shortcut name. But instead you can click on the default icon for the shortcut you just made and that will open up the options you need and you can then follow the rest of the instructions

[@kimhartleywellywood]

And i have a screenshot which i even drew some arrows and lines around where you need to click, but it appears i cannot upload it as a comment on this post sorry

[@Hemant-to1li]

Sir can I crop multiple images at one click by shortcut 🤔

[@anyapanthaky458]

Great video! The issue I'm having is that ordinary/everyday photos are about 3MB per photo - its all chewing into cloud storage on Google Photos. I have the appropriate settings on my iPhone as well as Google Photos to keep file sizes to as optimum as possible however its still a lot. E.g. a photo of an item on my desk should easily be under 1MB. Any work arounds for this?

[@macmost]

I wouldn't use this to reduce the quality of your actual photos. I would store them in their current state. 3MB per photo is fine. Those are your originals, after all. I'd only use this if you need to reduce the size to make a copy to upload to a service or use in a document.

[@user-zv4cy9yh6b]

Bummer! The last sharing thing I tried didn't work on my iPhone. the sharing card just don't show up. I'm on iOS 17.1. so I just changed it to copy to clipboard.

[@JoyceFox-qx2mw]

I'm so excited to use this method to resize photos. I've followed each step exactly, 3 times. Any idea why it doesn't show up in the share sheet??? Mine looks exactly like yours.

[@macmost]

If you are sure you have it set up right, did you look under Edit Actions at the bottom of the list and see if you need to add it? Are you using it in the right place, with an image selected?

[@JoyceFox-qx2mw]

@@macmost LOL, I guess my phone just needed a night to sleep on it. It magically appeared the next day. Thanks so much for this info and the reply!!

[@jarodlee2457]

Hi Gary, great video! I have a question, when I try to resize over 30 photos I'm getting error check settings. I'm not sure where to change the settings

[@macmost]

Perhaps it isn't the number of photos, but something up with a particular photo in the bunch?

[@NoCapGolf]

If you are doing large amounts of photos you have to go to the settings and scroll down to the shortcuts setting and change it to allow you to share large files or you will get a message not allowing it.

[@TSLS1979]

I created the shortcut but it's not showing in the share sheet.. did something change in iOS 17.4.1?

[@AndrewDay_Aston-Martin-DBS5126]

I just want to take and save all pictures in a lower res in the first place but my SE doesn't seem to be able to do that which is really dumb!

[@AndrewDay_Aston-Martin-DBS5126]

I get to the 'save to photo app' (3:49) and I it executes the reduction and gives me a tick, but it's still in photos in full resolution, no change.

[@macmost]

This doesn't replace what you have in photos, it saves a file.

[@-MAX813-]

Thank you this is great! I've been unsuccessfully trying to figure out if there's a way to program the shortcut as follows: resize the photo, delete the original, send resized photo directly back into the photos app, This would help my workflow tremendously for my work!

[@macmost]

Not sure why you would want that. Resizing the photo does the same thing. Why the extra work of making it disappear and reappear?

[@oneoeach]

@@macmost so that you do not have multiple duplicate images to deal with. I dont need the hi res image i only want the low res.

[@macmost]

@@oneoeach Perhaps I'm missing something here. You mention "work." So these aren't regular photos (vacations, family events, friends, etc) but some sort of work project? Maybe consider saving those to file instead of Photos? I still don't know why you wouldn't want to keep the high resolution versions around, ESPECIALLY if they are for work. What if later you want a different version of the image. Wouldn't you want the original to use for that?

[@zuvuya9]

Works great on non raw images, anyway to adjust for raw pro res resize to shareable jpg?

[@macmost]

This converts to JPEG in the Shortcut. So it should work for RAW, converting it to a JPEG for you as well as resizing.

[@zuvuya9]

Yes for some reason after setting up multiple times following your instruction and downloading the file it does complete the shortcut on raw images. But it does on non raw.

[@macmost]

@@zuvuya9 Not sure why it isn't working for you, sorry.

[@JanLandy]

Gary, Brilliant video Great Shortcut. Can you create video that will convert raw photos to jpegs using shortcuts. Is it possible to maintain the orignial date and time of the photo when converting a photo?

[@macmost]

Yes. All of that is shown in this video.

[@JanLandy]

@@macmost You missed this part of my question: Is it possible to maintain the orignial date and time of the photo when converting a photo?

[@macmost]

@@JanLandy The date and time should remain unless you have chosen to strip out metadata. But keep in mind the file date is not the metadata date. Two different things.

[@roya-19]

i follow the steps and created the resize shortcut; but when i want to share the photo: shortcut (resize) is not in option! what should i do?

[@macmost]

Check and recheck to make sure you have enabled it to appear in sharing like I show.

[@tmccarthy27]

After choosing a photo my share menu does not include the Resize Photos shortcut option. What can I do?

[@macmost]

Check how you set it up carefully to make sure you didn't skip something.

[@bentzion1903]

Thank you. Can you please show the same way to resize and compress a video? so it could be shared easily and faster saving data.

[@macmost]

Use the "Encode Media" action for that. Note that when you send video over a messaging system it is usually automatically compressed. But for larger videos you should look for other ways to share like iCloud or a KZbin unlisted/private video.

[@bentzion1903]

@@macmost I want this feature to share large size video via WhatsApp, it got size limit for sharing.

[@macmost]

@@bentzion1903 If it is large, why not upload to KZbin and then share the link? Then the viewer would be able to see it at a resolution they prefer, like compressed and small for mobile networks and HD for computers on fast networks, etc.

[@basharhito5190]

The shortcut works very good, it will be great if there is an option to delete the original photo instead of creating a new resized image.

[@albert_chen]

Yes would love this!