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Multiple Uploads on Mobile

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    Matt on July 14, 2022 at 3:00 am #45692

    Hello, I am trying to see if there is any way to use mediapress to upload multiple images on mobile on one selection action. I am on iOS and Android and both browsers (safari and chrome respectively) do not allow me to upload more than one picture at a time. Is there any way to force the button to allow a multiple select on the upload form?

    It seems like this was working in the past from this thread: https://buddydev.com/support/forums/topic/problem-uploading-media-from-mobile/

    Thank you for the help!

    Matt

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    Brajesh Singh on July 14, 2022 at 7:30 am #45693

    Hi Matt,
    Welcome to BuddyDev support forums.

    We do not restrict the number of uploads. The issues seems to be limitation imposed by os/browser.

    Please see
    https://github.com/FineUploader/fine-uploader/issues/840

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31907704/cant-select-multiple-images-to-upload-on-android-chrome-web-browser

    Also, Please check if you are able to upload multiple photos using WordPress Add media action in backend.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Matt on July 14, 2022 at 1:28 pm #45710

    Thanks for the information! Uploading media through the WP media interface works fine with the ability to select multiple images on both iOS and Android.

    I am having a hard time seeing where the filepicker is opened in the first place in the code. Maybe if you can point me in the right direction, I can contribute a fix to make it work.

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    Brajesh Singh on July 17, 2022 at 3:54 pm #45725

    Hi Matt,

    Thank you.
    I saw your PR on the github repo.

    Can you please give a try to the latest version from github and check if the same issue is still there?

    Regards
    Brajesh

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    Russell on August 18, 2025 at 3:59 pm #55685

    Hi,

    Appreciate this post is a few years old but even in 2025 the issue of not being able to upload multiple images on mobile was still there but fixed at least on Android by going to the Mediapress plugin in the WordPress Content Folder, then opening Assets and then mpp-assets-loader.php. Line 177 is set to “false” but by setting to “true” ie $defaults[‘multi_selection’] = true; Multiple Image Selection on Android now works. Don’t know about iOS. Hope this helps!

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    Brajesh Singh on August 20, 2025 at 6:47 am #55688

    Hi Russel,
    Thank you for the suggestion.
    I appreciate it.

    We have done it intentionally due to limitations of platform(not having uniformity on allowing file selection for ios/android etc).

    We do not plan to add it as it creates broken experience with the current uploader(in 2.0 branch, this is not an issue).

    I will suggest using the filter mpp_upload_default_settings to filter and override.

    Regards
    Brajesh

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