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I've set my iOS camera uploads to add only new photos, but it's trying to re-upload everything.
I went from a iPhone 11 to a iPhone 16 Pro a few months ago. I backed up photos to Dropbox before I moved everything to the new phone. Had issues with the new phone and Apple had me do a full factory...
Dropbox uploads from my iPhone's Photos app, from the main library, no specific folder. I uploaded the screenshot of my camera upload settings from my Dropbox app to this folder (I assume that's what you were asking for):
Megan
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorHey jlo-nyc!
After reviewing our entire thread, I believe the best course of action would be for you to set camera uploads to backup "new photos only". Then, you can manually upload any older photos that aren't already online.
Keep in mind that if the "All my photos" option uploads everything from scratch -which seems possible in this case- there may not be a way to prevent it.
You also mentioned having some duplicate content, right? If I misunderstood, feel free to clarify. However, if duplicates are an issue, please check the file names and sizes of the files and compare them to confirm they're identical.
Thanks - When I select "new photos only" it sets a start date to today (which I cannot control), so I assumed it's not looking for new photos based on sync, it's date based. I don't remember it being like that in the past, but that makes me think it will only start looking for new photos taken on or after that date. Is that not correct? Will it upload new photos I took since the last upload? That's why I had selected "All photos" in the Back up setting.
I don't know that there are actually duplicate content issues, I just wasn't clear on why Dropbox was scanning EVERYTHING rather than only grabbing what was new.
Thanks for testing that. So this is the issue for me, I don't do this back up daily, so this is not helpful. This is why I had it set to "All my photos" but it seems to scan EVERYTHING. I'm pretty sure it did not used to do this, thus the questions and why I'm so baffled by how this works. Perhaps I'm wrong and it was always like this, but I'm quite certain it was not scanning thousands of photos for possible uploading when I had the app on my iPhone 11. So... I guess I'm at a loss, and probably should just keep it set at "All my photos" and just know that it will take a while before it determines what needs to be uploaded.
