Enable or disable the camera uploads feature in roaming

[Ulric]

Hello,

In the Dropbox documentation we can see that the camera uploads feature is not available in roaming.

https://help.dropbox.com/photos-videos/camera-uploads-overview

Is it possible, in a future release, to let the user choose whether or not he wants to enable the camera uploads feature in roaming? I have a European mobile data plan, so I'd like my photos to be saved in my Dropbox regardless of the country I currently am.

Thank you in advance!

Best regards,

Ulric

[Twazza]

I concur.

This has been a major pain travelling in Europe. Even though I have an unlimited data plan with free roaming within most EU countries, I still have to find (usually slow) WiFi to get the photos to upload or plug my phone in to manually transfer images. And roaming is about to get a whole lot more common, with the new EU rules about it.

(I understand you don't want people accidentally having it switched on while using regular less-than-free roaming, but at least give us the option in the settings!)

Please fix this bug soon.

Thanks.

[Mark]

It isnt a bug Twazza - its a feature, its by design so there isnt actually anything to fix.

Because of that may I suggest you make a Feature Request in the 'Share an Idea' area?

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Share-an-idea/ct-p/101002000

[Twazza]

Well, though I forgot to mention it, the fact that the app says "Waiting for faster network" rather than "Camera upload is paused while roaming" is definitely a bug. And that leads me to believe that this "feature" was implemented shoddily at best.
Nevertheless, thanks for your suggestion. I will raise it there.

[knobcottage]

Well 2017 ..all working perfectly until a random day, today. European upload to Dropbox but works on all other clouds. Mmm. Same error as above.

[verekia]

In 2018, this is still an issue in Europe, and even the error message hasn't been improved. When I'm not in my home country in Europe, I have to find random slow restaurants WiFi networks to sync photos instead of being able to use my 50 gig 4G plan. That's silly because travel is when I need photo uploads the most, in case I lose my phone. Even going to Starbucks doesn't work because it's often seen as an unsecured network and won't allow Dropbox sync. Really really a pain in the butt to manage to back up precious travel photos. As mentioned above, at the very least the error message should be improved.

[Sanchez]

Hey everyone, 

I’ve gone ahead and mentioned this feature request to our team, in my internal feedback report. I think that this would be a reasonable and handy feature to have too! 

Cheers

[danandersson]

Vacation time coming, any plans to add this option soon?

[yeahforbes]

It is valid to call this a bug because the ostensible goal is to pause for the purpose of avoiding an unexpected expense. Roaming used to be expensive so it used to be a decent analog for expense, but now roaming is often equal to domestic for all intents and purposes and thus ceased to be a valid analog for expense. The feature was not a bug when it was first created, but it became a bug based on externalities.

[Alan R.4]

Any update on when this will be fixed? Would surely be quite easy to have an additional tick box for 'allow upload whilst roaming'? Google Photos has precisely that option. 

[Leonardofahrer]

August 2018. I am a dropbox+ user. I am Danish and sitting in Italy with the above mentioned problem. I can see that the problem has not been solved today several years after the problem was raised and I ask the users here: Which alternative programme can I use to solve the problem so I can kick dropbox out? 

Shame on you dropbox!