How to share a file, photo or link into your team chat from any app on iPhone, Android or Mac (2026)

The photo of the whiteboard is in the camera roll, the contract is in Mail, the article is in the browser — and the team chat is a fourth app. If you searched "share to team chat from another app", the short answer for InterMIND is: it is in the share sheet. On iPhone and Android, tap Share in any app and pick InterMIND; on a Mac, use the system Share menu. Then choose the destination — your own Inbox, or a channel — and it lands there as a message. This guide is the rest: what each platform shares, what happens to the file once it lands, and where the Inbox comes from.

From a phone: the share sheet

1. In any app, tap Share and pick InterMIND from the sheet. Text, links, images, video and files are accepted.
2. The Forward to InterMIND screen opens with the destination list: your Inbox, or any channel you belong to. Tap one.
3. It is sent. Several files go out as individual messages; a file over 25 MB is skipped, and the screen says how many.

The iOS app adds itself to the iPhone's share sheet through its Share Extension; the Android app registers in Android's share sheet. Both need the app installed — the phone's browser cannot receive a share.

From a Mac: the Share menu

With the desktop app installed, InterMIND appears in the macOS system Share menu — in Finder, in Preview, in any app with a Share button. Pick it, choose the Inbox or a channel, and the file goes in. On Windows, and in the browser on any platform, the equivalent is to paste or to drop the file onto the app window: a file dropped anywhere on the window uploads to the chat, and a collapsed sidebar opens during the drag.

What happens once it lands

• A document is summarized on its own. The text is extracted on your device, and an AI summary appears on the file card — the point, the decisions, the open questions — and each member of the channel reads that summary in their own language. Opening the file shows the summary first and the preview one step behind.
• Text and links are messages. Every member of the channel reads the text in their own language, whatever language it was shared in.
• It goes into the channel's history. Files shared in a channel stay in its history; they count against the team's shared storage — 1 GB on Basic, 30 GB on Pro, 1 TB on Business, 5 TB on Enterprise.

Where the Inbox comes from

The Inbox is your personal channel. It appears in the channel list the first time something arrives in it — a share from the phone, a message forwarded to yourself, or a Telegram message relayed by the InterMIND bot. From the Inbox you route things on to your channels, or keep them: it is the quickest way to save a link or dictate a note for later. The chat overview describes the three chat types.

FAQ

How do I send a photo from my iPhone to a team channel? Open the photo, tap Share, pick InterMIND, then tap the channel. It arrives as a message that every member sees.

Can I share from Android? Yes. InterMIND is in Android's share sheet; text and files from any app go to your Inbox or a channel. Files up to 25 MB each are sent as individual messages.

Does it work on a Mac? Yes, with the desktop app installed: InterMIND is in the macOS Share menu. On Windows and in the browser, paste or drop the file onto the app window.

What happens to a PDF I share? It is summarized automatically — the summary appears on the file card, readable by each member in their own language — and stored in the channel's history against the team's storage.

Is there a size limit? 25 MB per file. Larger files are skipped, and the share screen tells you how many were.

Try it

• How to get a summary of every document shared in a team chat — what happens to the PDF once it lands.
• Try the live demo — a real InterMIND meeting in the browser, no signup needed.
• Desktop and mobile apps — what each app adds, including sharing from other apps.
• File sharing — formats, storage, what files do in a channel.
• Voice notes in a team channel — the other way to put something into a channel from a phone.

Sources: InterMIND — Desktop and mobile apps. Checked September 2026.