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How to fix photo upload problems

The size limit, iPhone photos, and what to do when an upload never finishes.

4 min readUpdated 2026-08-20
On this page (5)
  1. Photos are uploaded in the gallery section
  2. The limit is 10MB per photo
  3. iPhone photos do not need converting
  4. If an upload never finishes
  5. If you are inside a chat app

Photos are uploaded in the gallery section

Wedding photos go in the Photo gallery section of the editor. You can select several at once.

For a large album, add them in small batches of a few. That makes it obvious which photo is the problem, rather than one big upload stalling as a whole.

The gallery is where photos are uploaded.

The limit is 10MB per photo

Each image file can be up to 10MB. Photos from a recent phone or a professional camera can exceed that.

If one photo will not upload, check that specific file's size first. Over 10MB and it needs to be made smaller before it will go.

iPhone photos do not need converting

iPhone photos are usually in HEIC format. ChungDoi converts them to JPEG on upload, so you do not have to change the format yourself.

If advice elsewhere tells you to convert HEIC to JPEG first, ignore it. Just pick the original photos straight from your library.

If an upload never finishes

Switch to stable Wi-Fi rather than mobile data. Wedding photos are large, and a weak signal is the most common reason an upload stalls partway.

Do not close the tab or lock the screen while it is uploading. On a phone, switching to another app can pause the transfer.

If you are inside a chat app

The browser built into Zalo or Messenger handles file picking differently from a normal browser, and sometimes cannot open your photo library at all.

Open chungdoi.com in Safari, Chrome or your phone's default browser and upload there. That resolves most of the odd cases.

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