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iPhone product capture

No app setup needed. Copy a product link, paste it into ViaMyVA, pick the best photo, and it lands in Photo Requests with a linked Photo Ticket created automatically.

Send a product from your iPhone

  1. On the product page (Safari or Chrome), tap Share and choose Copy (or press and hold the address bar and choose Copy).
  2. Open viamyva.com/iphone-capture -- bookmark it or add it to your Home Screen so it's one tap away.
  3. Paste the link into the box and tap Continue.
  4. ViaMyVA shows a gallery of product-image choices. Tap the best one, tap Continue with selected image, add an optional note, then tap Save to Product Picker.
  5. The selected image, product link, and note appear in Product Picker → Photo Requests.

Fallback: if a retailer blocks automated reading or has no usable image, you can still save the product-page link and a note so it isn't lost.

Tip -- add it to your Home Screen: open the capture page in Safari, tap the Share icon, then Add to Home Screen. It'll open straight to the paste box like its own app icon.

Optional: one-tap via the Share Sheet

If you'd rather skip the copy/paste step, a one-time Shortcuts app setup can add "Send to Product Picker" straight to Chrome's Share menu. Apple changes the Shortcuts app's screens fairly often, so exact button names below may drift from what you see -- the paste method above always works regardless.

  1. Open Apple Shortcuts, tap +, and name the shortcut Send to Product Picker.
  2. Open the shortcut's details (info button, or the down arrow beside its name) and turn on Show in Share Sheet, with Receive set to URLs.
  3. Add a URL Encode action, set its input to the Shortcut Input variable.
  4. Add a URL action with the address below, placing the URL Encoded Text variable right after the equals sign (don't type it literally -- pick it from the variable picker).
https://viamyva.com/iphone-capture?url=URL_ENCODED_TEXT
  1. Add an Open URLs action passing in the URL from the previous step, then tap Done.
  2. On a product page, tap Share and look for Send to Product Picker (if it's not listed, scroll down to Edit Actions and add it to Favorites).