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jlo-nyc
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12 months ago

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...
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Megan
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11 months ago

Hey jlo-nyc!

I tested this on my end, and it is indeed date based.

if you select "new photos only" today, then it should upload content from your camera roll starting today, or from the moment you enabled the feature.

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jlo-nyc
New member | Level 1
11 months ago

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.

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