Print Photos From Your Phone: From Gallery to 10×15

Do you need an app to print photos from your phone?

No. To print the photos on your phone you do not need to download an app, copy them to a computer with a cable or take them to a studio; you order in your phone’s browser. When you tap “Choose photos” on this page, your phone’s own picker opens and shows your gallery. Select all the photos you want printed and confirm: they appear on screen at once and upload three at a time in the background. You do not need to sign up first either; an account is created with your email address at payment, and order and shipping details are sent there.

The order window has four steps: Photos, Preview, Delivery and Payment. In the Preview step each photo appears exactly as it will be printed on 10×15 paper; for a photo whose ratio is not 2:3, “Fill” covers the whole paper and trims the edges, while “White border” prints the entire photo and leaves the empty area white. You set copies photo by photo or give them to all photos at once with the “Copies for all: 1·2·3” buttons at the top. The status bar at the top shows your total prints and the price steps; the current values are in the 10x15 photo print price table.

Your cart is stored on the server. If an upload is interrupted, your phone locks or you close the tab, your uploaded photos are still there when you return. A photo that failed to upload is never dropped silently: before continuing you send it again with “Try again” or remove it, and a photo removed by mistake comes back with “Undo”.

Your photos are used for printing only; they do not go through any AI analysis and are not shared with anyone. EXIF data including location (GPS) is removed and each photo is converted to the sRGB colour space for printing. The print file is prepared once payment is confirmed and is used only in the print room; small thumbnails of the photos you ordered stay on the order page in your account. This page is about printing holiday, family and event photos; if you need a photo for a passport or ID, see the guide to taking a passport photo with your phone.

How do you print photos from an iPhone? HEIC and iCloud

By default an iPhone saves photos in the “High Efficiency” format, that is HEIC. Upload these files as they are, without converting them: the server converts each photo to JPEG for printing, moves the colour to sRGB and applies the orientation your phone recorded. If you want new photos saved directly as JPEG, choose “Most Compatible” under Settings → Camera → Formats (Apple Support: using HEIF or HEVC media); on a 10×15 print there is no visible difference between the two.

If your photos live in iCloud and only small copies are on the phone, the picker downloads the full-size versions of the photos you select while uploading; on a slow connection this can make the upload take longer. When you choose a Live Photo, the still frame is printed, not the moving part. The blurred background of Portrait mode photos is printed along with the photo.

You do not have to select everything in one go: “Add photos” in the Preview step adds new selections to the same cart. If you choose the same photo twice it is not added a second time; for more prints you raise its number of copies.

If you cropped, rotated or filtered a photo on your iPhone, the edited version is printed; to print the original, undo the edit in Photos. In the Preview step you can also move and zoom the crop or rotate the photo; the dashed line in the editor shows the thin outer strip that can be trimmed on a borderless print. Cropping and borderless printing are explained in detail in the guide on how to print 10x15 photos.

How do you print photos from Android? Gallery and Google Photos

On Android, tapping “Choose photos” opens a Gallery, Photos or Files picker, depending on the phone’s brand and version. To select several photos, long-press the first one and then tap the others. If your photos are sorted into folders, going to the folder through Files is often the quickest way.

If a photo in Google Photos is not on the phone, the picker downloads it from the cloud. If your backup uses “Storage saver” quality, photos larger than 16 MP are reduced to 16 MP (Google Photos Help: backup quality); 16 MP is still far more than a 10×15 print needs, so there is nothing to worry about here.

Most phone cameras shoot in 4:3 by default; at this ratio a photo printed with “Fill” loses about 11% of its short side. If you use the camera in 16:9 or full-screen ratio, the cropped share grows; crop shares by ratio are in the table on the photo print sizes page.

On Android, photos you receive on WhatsApp usually appear in the Gallery in an album called “WhatsApp Images”; you can select them together from there. These are most likely compressed copies: in the Preview step, check whether a warning appears on top of the photo.

How do you print photos received on WhatsApp?

WhatsApp compresses photos: in a standard send the photo is reduced and saved again, so a picture you saved from the family group can be noticeably smaller than the original on the phone that took it. The difference does not show on screen but can show on paper. Where possible, upload the original from your gallery or ask the person who took the photo for the original; a file sent on WhatsApp as a “Document” is not reduced, and the app’s HD option also leaves a larger file than a standard send.

The values in the table are calculated with the “Fill” crop to 10×15; effective DPI is the number of pixels per inch of paper after cropping. A 12 MP phone photo gives about 670 DPI, more than twice the 300 DPI used for full sharpness: the original in your gallery is always enough, and problems come from reduced copies. The upload screen does the same calculation for every photo and, where needed, puts a warning on top of it: “A bit soft” below 200 DPI and “May print blurry” below 150 DPI. Not zooming into the crop of a photo with a warning reduces the loss. Values for other sources are in the how many pixels a 10x15 needs table.

The problem with a screenshot is usually its ratio rather than its resolution. A 1080×2400 screenshot gives 270 DPI at 10×15 but has a 9:20 ratio: with “Fill” about a third of its height is cut from the top and bottom, and with “White border” the whole screen is printed but wide white bands remain on both sides. Choose the photo itself, not a screenshot of it.

How many photos can I upload, and how long does it take?

One order holds up to 200 photos and 500 prints in total, copies included; each photo can have up to 99 copies. JPG, PNG, WEBP and HEIC are accepted, up to 30 MB per file. Photos over 10 MB that the browser can open are reduced on the phone to 4096 pixels on the long side before upload: for a 4:3 photo that is about 680 DPI at 10×15, so it makes no difference to the print but speeds up uploading on mobile data. For more, place a second order; the unit price of each order is based on its own total number of prints, with the steps on the 10×15 print price per photo page.

Upload time depends on your connection and the number of photos; photos go up three at a time, and if the connection drops each one retries twice more. If the connection is lost completely, the upload resumes where it stopped once you are back online. Each uploaded photo is saved to your cart straight away and you can keep adding photos in the meantime; you cannot move to the Preview step until all uploads have finished.

If you are uploading from a computer, drag photos from a folder and drop them anywhere on the page or on the order window; dropped files go straight into your cart. To add to the same cart from both your phone and your computer, you need to be signed in with the same account on both. Photos added without signing in stay tied to that browser; when you sign in, that cart moves to your account and is not merged with an older cart left in the account.

If you are uploading on mobile data, keep the size in mind: a 12 MP phone photo is usually a few megabytes as JPEG and slightly smaller as HEIC, so fifty photos can easily exceed a hundred megabytes. For many photos Wi-Fi is both faster and cheaper. General questions such as paper finish, borderless printing and delivery are covered in the online photo printing guide; the comparison with printing at home or at a kiosk is in the section on printing photos at home or online.