Tap SwirlyMMS to see its details.

You can also press the Install Trial button which will directly install SwirlyMMS without purchasing it. In this case you can purchase it later from within SwirlyMMS. See instructions below.

If you press Install Trial you can start SwirlyMMS and look around but you cannot use it to send and receive MMSes. For that you need to purchase it.

After having clicked the Confirm button, the download will begin. After SwirlyMMS has been download it is automatically installed by Cydia.

When Cydia is finished installing SwirlyMMS you will be asked to reboot the iPhone device. It is mandatory that you do reboot the iPhone for SwirlyMMS to operate properly!

Installation is now complete and you may now launch SwirlyMMS!

However, before you can send and receive MMSs, you must setup the application as described in the next section.

If you purchased your license from within Cydia Store then a license will be found.

If you didn’t then the license fetch will fail and you will be presented with this screen. How to buy SwirlyMMS now is described in the section Buy SwirlyMMS from within SwirlyMMS
below.

Take note of the “m” in the statusbar. It indicates whether we have a valid MMS session or not. It is most often grey after a new installation of SwirlyMMS. To be able to send and receive MMSs however, this “m” must be green. In order to make it green we need to configure the settings.

So, the first thing to do is go to the SwirlyMMS’s Settings screen. Therfore, tap the Settings icon in the bottom bar.

The settings are specific for your Service Operator. The settings shown in the picture to the left are Telia’s MMS settings in Sweden. Contact your Service Operator to find out your settings! Alternatively, you can scan our forum’s Usable Settings section, or check this list or request the Settings over-the-air (OTA) by pressing that button below.

MMSC and Proxy must always be filled in.

APN, Username and Password may be empty but should oftentimes be defined. If APN, Username and Proxy are correct, you will see a green “m”.

Image size, is set to Medium by default. If you know that your Service Operator can manage large pictures you can change this setting. Note that many Operators have a size limit of 300KB.

User Agent, some Service Operators only accept messages from known handsets. In this case, you can set your handset to be something else. Normally, this is not needed though.

Press the Save button to save your settings.

In this case it is a red cross meaning SwirlyNet is not activated.

Press the blue arrow-button to come to the activation page.

Now we go…

Never close SwirlyMMS while waiting for the activation confirmation. If you do so you must start the activation from the beginning (see picture above).

In the settings you can select that you always want your MMSes being sent via SwirlyNet and never via your carrier (1). If you have done that choice you will get an alert message if the MMS wasn’t possible to send via SwirlyNet.

In the settings you can also choose to use SwirlyNet only when Wifi is available (in contrast to use it with Wifi as well as with your cellular data) (2).

Finally you can also decide if you want that SwirlyNet MMS notifications shall be fetched in the background or not (3). if you turn background fetching off you will not get notified about new messages coming via SwirlyNet until you start SwirlyMMS so best is to leave this on.

A short subject can be entered (3).

An MMS is composed of several media parts. SwirlyMMS is able to create an MMS with up to 10 parts. However, some Service Providers limits the number of parts and/or the size of a part and/or the size of the complete MMS. So start out small…

To compose an MMS with pictures taken from the Camera Roll or Photo Album, press the Photo Album button (4).

To snap a new picture with the iPhone, press the Camera button (5).

To write a textual message, press the Text button (6).

To select an existing file, like a video or audio clip, browse the filesystem by pressing the Finder-like button (7).

To record & attach an audio-clip press the microphone button (10).

To rearrange the media parts and/or delete parts from the MMS, press the Media Parts button (8).

Finally, when the MMS has been composed and is ready to be sent, hit the Send button (9).

Enter phone number (2) or select your contact in the Address Book (1) and a short subject title (3).

Then pick a photo from the Camera Roll (4) or from a Photo Album (4) or snap a picture with the camera (5).

Also, we add a text part to the MMS (6).

We have now composed an MMS with two media parts: one picture and one text part.

Let’s test to send it to ourselves by pushing the Send button (9)!

Note: you do not need to have SwirlyMMS running to be able to receive MMS notifications since this is handled in the background. In addition to the sound alert, a visual alert shows the number of unread MMSs on the SwirlyMMS icon’s badge in the Home screen.

Navigate to the Inbox folder. There you should see the MMS notification, marked with a blue bullet indicator. Tap it to fetch the MMS!

Note: Some Service Operators, e.g. Telia Sweden, do not send out the Subject title in the MMS notification. Therefore, the space below the Senders name/phone number marked with the pink rectangle, may be empty.

So, after you tapped the MMS notification, SwirlyMMS connects the Proxy and then begins fetching the MMS.

If the MMS contains a subject it is shown in the top middle. The number of media parts is indicated with an Indicator (2). So, in this case the MMS contains three media parts and currently the second part is shown.

You can navigate back and forth between the media parts by sliding left & right over the screen (1).

You can double-tap a picture to view it in full screen.

You can save a media part to the file system by clicking the Save button (4). You can also save a picture to the camera roll by holding on the picture for 1 second.

You can Reply, Reply with SMS, and Forward an MMS by clicking the Reply/Forward button (5).

You can jump back to where you came from (3).