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pigletbunny
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7 years ago
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Move or copy photos from iPhone or iCloud to Dropbox

I’m using the latest iOS 12 release, and the latest version of the Dropbox iOS app, on my iPhone X. I have over 7,000 photos on my iPhone; they are also synced to my iCloud. (The volume consists o...
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    Dell_Dropbox
    4 hours ago

    Hey everyone, 

    As a general guideline, uploading several thousand photos at once from an iPhone or iCloud can be unreliable due to iOS and browser limitations.

    The most stable option is to first download your iCloud photos to a computer using iCloud for Windows or icloud.com, then upload them to Dropbox from your desktop. This avoids the upload limits you’re running into on mobile and makes it much easier to move large photo libraries.

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Dell_Dropbox
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4 hours ago

Hey everyone, 

As a general guideline, uploading several thousand photos at once from an iPhone or iCloud can be unreliable due to iOS and browser limitations.

The most stable option is to first download your iCloud photos to a computer using iCloud for Windows or icloud.com, then upload them to Dropbox from your desktop. This avoids the upload limits you’re running into on mobile and makes it much easier to move large photo libraries.

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