Post to your circle by text

This is for anyone in a circle who'd like to share by text. At the end, your photo or note is in the circle for everyone.

Text your circle

1. Save your circle's number to your phone. See Your circle's number and posting address.
2. Send a photo, video, or short message to that number, from a phone number you've confirmed on your account. That's how we know a post is yours.

However you send it, everyone in the circle sees it.

One thing we can't always warn you about: if your phone network decides a file is too big to send, it never reaches us, so we can't write back. If you sent something and nobody in your circle can see it, try emailing it instead.

You can text a small document, but phone networks are much stricter about documents than photos, so anything over about half a megabyte won't get through by text. See Share a document in your circle.

Hearing back after you text

When something you text shows up in your circle, we text you back. The first time, you'll get a short welcome with a few tips. After that you'll get: Your message has been posted!

Rather not get a reply every time? Text the word quiet. We'll only text you if something goes wrong. To get the replies back, text replies on.

Only the word on its own changes your replies. A photo sent with "quiet" written on it is shared like any other photo. Voice messages and emails don't get these replies.

Just saying hello

A hello on its own is shared with your circle like any other message, even if you say hello more than once. Everyone is notified according to their usual preferences. If you text it, you get the usual posted reply unless you have turned replies off with quiet.

There is no hourly or daily limit on how many messages members can text or email to their circle. File and attachment limits still apply.

What's next

• My text or email didn't post
• Can I undo something I sent by text?
• Call your circle and leave a voice message

Need help?

If something doesn't look right, get in touch and we'll help.