element-x-ios Multi select photos

Current behavior

It is impossible to multi-select photos. In the current Element client this is possible (even if it's not very intuitive due to being hidden behind several steps).

What should be possible

It should be possible to multi-select pictures. I'm not aware of any spec that allows sending multiple pictures inside one message (would be worth a MSC but that's another topic) but it should behave as it does on the current Element client and send those selected photos (for e.g. 5 pictures) after each other as messages.

Jun 21 '23 13:06 br4yd

I also need this feature.

Jul 01 '24 16:07 bombermuecke

+1

Mar 12 '25 18:03 b1ggi

+1

Mar 19 '25 09:03 rajtsic

+1

Apr 28 '25 20:04 jwheeler91

+1

May 27 '25 23:05 Tonguechaude

Still true on June 2025. I am still using Element classic because of this missing feature.

Jun 03 '25 06:06 warnerbryce

Look like it's coming : https://github.com/element-hq/element-x-ios/pull/4358

Jul 30 '25 07:07 warnerbryce

Thanks @stefanceriu for the implementation.

For everyone visibility, this is the very first version of the feature. We still want to introduce in EX the ability to group media into a same matrix event like described in MSC4274: Inline media galleries via msgtypes.

Jul 30 '25 13:07 manuroe