# Taking photos into Airtable
**URL:** https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051
**Category:** Airtable Questions
**Created:** [January 22, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051 "2024-01-22T12:42:08Z")
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### Author:  [@tobias](https://air.tableforums.com/u/tobias)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2024, 12:42pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051/1 "2024-01-22T12:42:08Z")
Hi,
I am trying to figure out the following application: For quality-management purposes we need to document certain procedural steps.
Ideally I could use an external webcam on our mac and smoehow take snapshots that stored directly into Airtable.
Any thoughts on where and how to begin?
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### Author:  [@tobias](https://air.tableforums.com/u/tobias)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051/2 "2024-01-22T12:44:12Z")
I do use Make for some things, so it could be a solution through Make…
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### Author:  [@ScottWorld](https://air.tableforums.com/u/ScottWorld)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051/3 "2024-01-22T12:59:08Z")
The Airtable mobile app lets you tap in an attachment field and then take photos with your camera.
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### Author:  [@tobias](https://air.tableforums.com/u/tobias)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 2:59am UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051/4 "2024-01-23T02:59:43Z")
Thank you, Scott. Yes, that could be a way. But it involves many operator steps on the iphone: selcting the right base, table, record, field and the aiming the camera and taking a picture. I am thinking more automated. An App that will take an Image by the push of a button on the keyboard. That image is then pushed to Airtable via Make or something along those lines.
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### Author:  [@ScottWorld](https://air.tableforums.com/u/ScottWorld)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 3:19am UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051/5 "2024-01-23T03:19:22Z")
If you are on iPhone, you could use Apple Shortcuts to automate the pocess. You can create a shortcut button (which can even be launched by Siri) to prompt the user to take a photo, and then that photo can be sent to the right base & table in Airtable (via Airtable’s API). If you have the user type in some text, you could use that to find the appropriate record too. Here’s [Apple’s Shortcuts User Guide](https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts).
Alternatively, you could have the user take a photo and drop it into a cloud folder. Then, Make could monitor that cloud folder for new photos and add them to Airtable.
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### Author:  [@tobias](https://air.tableforums.com/u/tobias)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://air.tableforums.com/t/taking-photos-into-airtable/1051/6 "2024-01-23T03:36:15Z")
Thanky you. I will explore that avenue