Flickr has made a significant update to its iOS app, revamping the look to mimic that of your iPhone’s Camera Roll and bringing the auto-upload feature added back in 2013 front-and-center. When you first run the app, it immediately asks if you want to automatically upload every photo you take. If you say yes, photos are set to private, so you won’t be sharing them with the world.
With Flickr offering 1TB of free storage, and a typical iPhone photo coming in at around 2.5Mb, that gives you capacity in the order of half a million photos …
Flickr 4.0 also adds new photo filters and the ability to share to Instagram. You can see the full changelog below.
What’s New in Version 4.0
• Put your free 1000GB to work like never before – auto-uploadr now grabs all photos and videos on your device. They’ll be private, until you choose to share them!
• A timeline view with improved browsing, organization and sharing.
• Flickr got a facelift with an all new elegant, approachable look and feel to match your spiffy new camera roll.
• Unleash your creativity with photo edits straight from your Flickr photos.
• New and enhanced photo filters to help get your snaps share-ready.
• Share to Instagram.
• Performance improvements throughout the app.
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Amazing!
It’s amazing becuase the iphone certainly does NOT do this.
This is really good. You can go on travel, take all the pics you want, have them upload via wifi when in the hotel in the evening and delete any photos on your phone if it gets full. And they are all stored as private for later review.
Why is the iCloud Photo Library from Apple simply like this? or at least matching the combined storage of one’s devices?
iCloud Photo Library makes this automatically and better.
It’s just an option in iCloud/Photo.
It frees iphone memory keeping low resolution images (or full in cache).
And doesnt come with 1TB of free storage….rather just 5GB
If you use iCloud for photos then you have rocks in your head, sorry. If you want your photos mangled, locked up without being able to be pulled from your devices, then continue to let iOS manage your photos. The only safe way to manage photos in iOS is to turn OFF all iCloud and Photostream related photo options. Once you have photos appear on any iOS device ONLY inside albums or Photostream then you cannot pull them back onto a Mac or Windows PC without using third-party file system browsers to extract the photos from the cache. Flipping nightmare.
Anything that lets you manage photos outside of Apple’s software is welcome. It’s clear that no one at Apple knows how iCloud works, the whole thing is an utter mess. Which is shame, because I’m an Apple fan, and more importantly, a shareholder, so I want people to use their services and continue to add value to the company.
Apple needs to offer unlimited (forget 1TB) photo storage with every iOS device. Full resolution, full metadata, accessible from any of your iOS devices or Mac/PCs once you log in with the same account.
iCloud sure would be great, but offers only 5GB. Flickr (with ads when browsing) 1TB for free. 49.99$ a *year* for 1TB if you want it ad-free.
On Apple, 19.99€ a *month*!….. automatically and better, maybe. “just an option” I don’t think so…
yea , why doesn’t Apple have a cool plan like Flickr…. Freakin A
Flickr has been my go to for photo backup for years and Auto-Upload has been great. I love the new design and layout but my only problem with the update is that its auto-uploading 100s of photos I have already done but oh well.
I use to Cut and Paste out of my Auto Upload Album to another Album, but now i can only copy…Why ?
If anyone cares, this update also requires iOS 8.0 minimum, so anyone using an iPhone4 or earlier, or an iPad 1 as a photo browser (camera connection kit) is out of luck now. Thanks Yahoo.
any idea if the auto-upload process runs more seamlessly in the background? I used Flickr in the past and unless I opened the app regularly it would stop uploading pictures automatically. I did have background app refresh enabled. I use Google plus now exclusively for that reason. I can not open the app for weeks and my pictures are all automatically uploaded within seconds of taking them. I like the full resolution 1TB of storage that flickr offers though. Additionally Google plus will allow you to backup all videos under 15 minutes at 1080 resolution for free! I don’t really want to use both apps though. If Flickr added video or Google didn’t charge for full resolution photos then I’d have the best of both worlds.
Not sure if anyone realizes how big this update is…
Before update: Flickr offers 1TB of data – only auto uploads pictures
After update: Flickr offers 1TB of actually useful data – auto uploads VIDEOS as well
When you throw video uploading in the mix, no one else is anywhere remotely near this amount of free cloud storage.
So, if I wanted to use Flickr for syncing photos and videos among all of my iOS and OS X devices, would it be possible?
Even if I had to use Aperture in OS X instead of Photos (which is missing any integration with Flickr like iPhoto and Aperture had).
Anyone have any idea how to get Uploadr to upload full resolution images? The scaled down photos look like crap on my displays.
Flickr’s Uploadr uploads full resolution videos and images. Google Photos compresses all photos and videos by at least 1/2 to 1/3 of the original size.
Despite the Google Photos app being snappier and more pleasing aesthetically, the compression of your files is unacceptable.
No one is going to go over 1 TB of photos so Flickr remains the champion for now
I’ve found that your statement is actually the opposite. All 83 images that I copied into the folder that syncs with Flickr Uploadr were renamed and resized. The names have “_1024” added to them and the images online are all a max width of 1024px. My display is 2560px wide. My original image that was copied is over 10,000px wide. I don’t know if there are different versions of Flickr but the free version resizes all uploads to no wider than 1024px. In my case, it makes it completely useless. Here are the technical screenshots:
Actual Photo Taken Size: http://jciproof.us/14OWu/4P1PRGwh
Photo Copied to Flickr Uploadr Folder (notice size and filename): http://jciproof.us/1iBHa/HcSfAgSj
Actual Photo on Flickr with Download Options stating 1024 was the actual size: http://jciproof.us/1ip4A/46QpWnBL
i still didn’t test the flickr app yet but im looking for an app to ONLY upload the pic i took with my camera and maybe my screenshots …. NOT the whole gallery, thanks