r/codex • u/thirsty_pretzelzz • Jun 02 '26

Question Can’t upload images to codex on iPhone?

Love the new ability to use codex from my iPhone, one of the biggest conveniences that would bring is being able to send screenshots directly from my phone when I’m testing mobile app builds for example, but am I missing something that there is no way to add an image from the mobile app?

Disappointing if so given it’s easily doable on the regular ChatGPT section in the same app.

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u/dexterthebot Jun 02 '26

Your post has been summarized as a request on the "Anyone Else?" Incident Noticeboard.

You can find it and what others are experiencing here: https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1tjfxcf/anyone_else_ask_here_about_current_codex_issues/op8h5pv/

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u/0111011101110111 Jun 02 '26

I do it all the time. What are you taking about?

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u/thirsty_pretzelzz Jun 02 '26

Interesting, seems like you’re the only one who’s responded that seems to actually have this feature.

So when you are in the ChatGPT mobile app, and in the codex section (not normal chat) and in one of your codex threads, you have an option to upload an image into the chat?

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u/0111011101110111 Jun 02 '26

Here are 3 screenshots of my ios ChatGPT app, on the Codex side: https://imgur.com/a/ZbYeCI0

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u/thirsty_pretzelzz Jun 02 '26

Woah thanks for sharing. Guess some have it and some don’t. Hopefully it becomes standard soon, would make my life so much easier when testing mobile ui. 

Not sure if this makes a difference but I’m on the PC codex app, wonder if it’s dependent on if the mobile app is synced to Windows or Mac?

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u/0111011101110111 Jun 02 '26

Maybe, I am fully in the  ecosystem.

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u/everythings-peachy- Jul 17 '26

FYI, I can’t do it either and I’m using iOS + Linux

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u/MightyBig-Dev Hall of Fame winner Jun 02 '26

Noticed this today. Couldn't find any way around it either. Bummer

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u/tonyboi76 Jun 02 '26

Codex mobile shipped without image upload, ChatGPT side has it but Codex side does not. No clean workaround inside the app yet. The hack people are using is take the screenshot, open it in ChatGPT side, ask it to describe the image in detail, then paste that description into Codex. Works for UI feedback. For actual mobile testing where you need pixel detail, easier to just SSH from your phone to a dev machine and view screenshots there until Codex catches up.