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iPhone Photo Library and Camera Roll Is Awful
Master Ozzy
14-07-2016
How on earth have they still not sorted this? Forget bloody better cameras, longer battery life etc...they need to sort out the little things. Not being able to choose where you want to save a picture is just ridiculous. If I want to save a picture it automatically goes into the camera roll and then you have to manually go in and create an album/move it where you want. It drives me mad.
BKM
14-07-2016
Originally Posted by Master Ozzy:
“How on earth have they still not sorted this? Forget bloody better cameras, longer battery life etc...they need to sort out the little things. Not being able to choose where you want to save a picture is just ridiculous. If I want to save a picture it automatically goes into the camera roll and then you have to manually go in and create an album/move it where you want. It drives me mad.”

Works exactly as I would wish!!! - the fact that it geotags each photo and automatically creates groupings in Camera Roll based on location and time works for me

The Photo Library works as well - I have >8Gb of photos on iCloud and it keeps thumbnails of all of them on the phone. Only recently accessed photos are stored at full-resolution and are downloaded as required
jonmorris
14-07-2016
How does it compare to Google Photos? Can you use Google Photos on iOS with the same features?

I find that to be excellent. Searching works brilliantly, the automatic creation of videos/albums, panoramic photos from multiple photos, animations etc, and so on.

Can you just switch to that instead? You can also upload unlimited photos and video as long as you accept photos being downsized to 16MP (I think) and video to 1080p (but it does support 60fps).
Heanor_Man31
14-07-2016
I second Google Photos too.

The Photos app in iOS 10 is slightly better but Google Photos is leaps and bounds ahead of the Cupertino firm.
JasonWatkins
14-07-2016
I use my NAS drive. The photo app for that just dumps everything on to the NAS drive whenever I get home as it has a "Home" geo-fence function.

Doesn't have the functions of Google Photos though ..
BKM
14-07-2016
Originally Posted by Heanor_Man31:
“The Photos app in iOS 10 is slightly better but Google Photos is leaps and bounds ahead of the Cupertino firm.”

IOS has various options for photo storage. "Photo Library" uses full-resolution on the Cloud, sorts the photos into place and time groups and has the option of having automatic thumbnail storage on device(s) - with full-resolution recovery on access

I like it!
ShaunIOW
14-07-2016
I haven't managed to get it to work yet - followed the instructions to set it all up, but nothing uploads to the icloud and the only way I can get photos off the phone is by connecting a cable and importing them with windows.
1manonthebog
15-07-2016
I use both, Google photos is a backup service for me. I prefer Google photos it is so much much better and has some nice touches, like I was out sightseeing yesterday, I took a bunch of photos, happened to look at Google Photos today it managed to stitch a lot of photos together creating a nice panoramic photo, I didn't even tell it to do this it just did it.

Here is another major annoyance for me with photos on my iPhone, when it starts syncing to icloud it totally kills my internet connection, hogs the entire bandwidth, nothing else can use the internet while it syncs
ArtfulDodger_
15-07-2016
It works fine for me, I take a picture, it gets backed up to iCloud and saved down onto my Mac.

I don't use Google as they cut the quality of the photos and I don't like the privacy issues.
jchamier
15-07-2016
Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“Can you use Google Photos on iOS with the same features?”

Google says you can, but I choose to keep my data away from google. Especially geotagged photos.

I back up my photos to MS OneDrive as I have loads of space as an Office 365 customer (the iOS app can auto upload) and as a Prime customer I also get unlimited photo storage with Amazon. Both auto save from camera roll full resolution.
jonmorris
15-07-2016
Why are you worried about geotagged photos? If you share them, it hides the location.

And it's really good for searching when you let Google know where a photo was taken.
jchamier
15-07-2016
Originally Posted by jonmorris:
“Why are you worried about geotagged photos? If you share them, it hides the location.”

90% of my photos are taken with my Nikon DSLR which doesn't have GPS - but not everyone wants to share their location of every photo with everybody in Google's / Microsoft's / Amazon's IT department. !

Quote:
“And it's really good for searching when you let Google know where a photo was taken.”

I suspect it is, I'm not going to go back and manually geo-tag all my DSLR photos however!
jonmorris
15-07-2016
Fair enough. I doubt anyone from the above really cares that much about your pictures (or mine) though!
Stuart_h
15-07-2016
If you use Google photos it's even better if you enable the facial recognition ! Will group pictures of my kids from baby to adulthood. It's very clever !!!
jonmorris
15-07-2016
Originally Posted by Stuart_h:
“If you use Google photos it's even better if you enable the facial recognition ! Will group pictures of my kids from baby to adulthood. It's very clever !!!”

Yeah, it solved my problem of having to go through four years of photos of my son to create albums. I just click his face and every photo, and video, is filtered.

Of course iPhoto did this years ago, but locally which isn't anywhere near as useful.
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