A nifty iPhone feature is the capability to upload a photo or video directly from the phone's Photos app or Camera Roll to a MobileMe gallery. The iPhone grabs your MobileMe login info from Mail, so you don't even have to remember your account password.
But there's one hitch: If you've got more than one MobileMe account set up in Mail on your iPhone--for example, I have my personal account as well as a "family" account I share with other family members--there's no way to choose which account is used to publish media. The iPhone picks one, and if it's not the account you want, you're stuck. My iPhone decided to publish my photos and videos to our family account, when I really wanted to post them to my personal MobileMe gallery.
Thankfully, Mac OS X Hints reader abadgersffound a workaround. It's not an elegant solution, but until Apple provides a better way, it's the only one I've found. Here are the steps:
Now when you upload media to MobileMe, the phone will use the desired account. A kludgy solution? You bet. Hopefully a future iPhone software update will add a simple setting for choosing which account to use.
*One caveat for Step 2: If you've changed your MobileMe account settings in order to save or file messages on the phone, rather than on the MobileMe servers, you should move those messages to the MobileMe servers before deleting the accounts from the iPhone.
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