Photo uploads are an interesting move from Dropbox and signals that the company wants to add more value to its service as larger tech companies encroach on its territory. Similar to Google, Apple restricts the size of Photo Stream photos on iOS devices up to 2048 by 1536 pixels, but Macs and PCs will download and store Photo Stream photos at their full resolution. If you already have Dropbox installed on your PC, then you need only wait iOS to get the new feature to sync your mobile photos on your desktop. Similar to the new Dropbox feature, Photo Stream automatically syncs your photos across all your devices, but you must download the iCloud Control Panel from Apple to get it working. But this could be a welcome feature for iPhone users with Windows PCs who haven’t yet enabled Apple’s iCloud Photo Stream feature. But Instant Upload restricts the size of your photos to 2048 pixels at their widest edge, while Dropbox won’t restrict the size of your images at all.ĭropbox’s new feature isn’t available yet for iOS devices. Some Android users may not want to bother automatically uploading to Dropbox since Google has offered a similar feature via Google+ called Instant Upload.
Google’s Instant Upload and Apple’s iCloud In my tests, users with rooted devices can just switch the app back to the SD card and Dropbox will continue to work. Dropbox says this is necessary because the phone provides a more secure form of credential storage. One word of warning for Android users: Dropbox now has to be installed on your phone’s onboard storage you can no longer stick it on your expandable SD card.
By default, Dropbox will only upload photos automatically over Wi-Fi, but you can also choose to upload over your data connection as well.ĭropbox also defaults to uploading all the photos on your camera, but there’s a simple checkbox if you want to start fresh and keep your older pics on your smartphone. The first time you fire up the Android Dropbox app after upgrading, you will be asked whether you want to set up automatic photo uploads. Auto Upload On Android Dropbox App appears
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