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Moirons1
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago
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Apple IOS Change to Upload Multiple Pics/Files to Dropbox

It seems that Apple have made changes to their IOS that limits the upload of pictures and files to a dropbox folder to one image at a time. Previous to the latest IOS upgrade you could select any n...
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    notwebsafe
    5 years ago

    For what it's worth, I don't think this workflow is at all discoverable. There's no reason I would have thought to go to the Files app in order to enable Dropbox save from the Photos app, and even within the Files app it's not obvious how you turn it on. It would make more sense if it were a setting in Dropbox itself, but I'm guessing that's not possible.

     

    Just to make it clear how to do this for people who haven't figured it out yet:

    1. Open the iOS Files app
    2. Tap on "Browse"
    3. If you're already in a folder, hit the back ("<") button in the upper left
    4. From the "..." button in the upper right, tap Edit
    5. You should now see "Dropbox" under "Locations" with a switch. Turn the switch on.
    6. In Photos, select some photos and tap the Share button.
    7. Tap "Save to Files"
    8. You should now see "Dropbox" as an option under Save to Files.

    From now on you should always get Dropbox as an option - you should never need to redo steps 1-5. However, the first time I did this, "Dropbox" was grayed out in step 8. I killed Files, Photos, and Dropbox, then reopened Dropbox and Photos, and eventually Dropbox became enabled. It's possible none of that was necessary and it just needed a little time to retrieve the list of folders from Dropbox.

    (Frankly, the design of the Files app itself seems confusing. "Edit" is a weirdly generic verb for "configure the list of locations to show files from".)

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Rich
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6 years ago
Moirons1 wrote:

1. Open Photos

2. Select multiple pics

3. select upload button bottom left

4. up comes the options (use to have dropbox as an option)

5. Select More... (still no dropbox)

You do it through Files. It's been like that for quite a while now.

  1. Open Photos
  2. Select multiple photos
  3. Tap the Share icon in the bottom-left
  4. Tap Save to Files in the available choices
  5. Tap Dropbox
  6. Select the folder to save them to
  7. Tap Save

 

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Moirons1
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

therein lay the problem at step 5 because Dropbox is NO LONGER an option UNLESS you only choose 1 image!

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