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Photo backup on iPhone isn’t working
I’ve been using Dropbox to backup my iPhone and noticed recently it’s been really slow. Last night I went to back it up again but it just said it was starting photo backup, but it still hasn’t found ...
Megan
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffEm_6 & Ákos M., I appreciate the info!
Also, Ákos M. great work on your troubleshooting skills! When you see the error message, is the app up to date with your Camera uploads?
Let's check one more thing, Em_6. Can you please ensure that background uploading is enabled? Here's how:
- Open the Dropbox app
- Tap the ‘Account’ tab
- Press Camera Uploads
- Ensure ‘Background Uploading’ is On
Thank you both!
Also, Ákos M. great work on your troubleshooting skills! When you see the error message, is the app up to date with your Camera uploads?
Let's check one more thing, Em_6. Can you please ensure that background uploading is enabled? Here's how:
- Open the Dropbox app
- Tap the ‘Account’ tab
- Press Camera Uploads
- Ensure ‘Background Uploading’ is On
Thank you both!
Megan I’ve tried that, on or off doesn’t make a difference. It’s the same for me BuckWebb. And we’re both on iPhone 7, don’t know about the others here though.
I’ve been in contact with somebody through reporting a bug on the AppStore and tried clearing the cache, uninstalling the app and reinstalling as they suggested. That doesn’t work either. Waiting to hear back from their team.
This has to be something to do with the app because everything that has been suggested either doesn’t work or only works after signing out and back in. That’s the ONLY thing that’s letting me backup my phone and has only been an issue since the update.
Thanks for your time replying though, appreciate it.
I’ve been in contact with somebody through reporting a bug on the AppStore and tried clearing the cache, uninstalling the app and reinstalling as they suggested. That doesn’t work either. Waiting to hear back from their team.
This has to be something to do with the app because everything that has been suggested either doesn’t work or only works after signing out and back in. That’s the ONLY thing that’s letting me backup my phone and has only been an issue since the update.
Thanks for your time replying though, appreciate it.
Really happy to have found this thread. All the issues that are covered here are the same ones I've been experiencing since late March. My assumption was that it would have been resolved by now through some sort of update, but apparently not.
I was able to enable camera uploads after logging out and logging in again, but that functionality stopped after closing the app. The only way to make sure all your most recent photos are being updates is to log out, log back in, and then keep the app open. And don't get me started on "background uploading" - this feature has never worked for me. The only way to back up photos through dropbox is to keep the app open (and by open, I mean never locking the screen and keeping it on Dropbox).
Why is this issue still happening after weeks and weeks?
- I am experiencing everything discussed here.
Hasn’t worked for 2 weeks.
I’ve tried everything suggested, but nothing worked. Yesterday I deleted the app, reinstalled and it found new photos and uploaded them.
Today however it’s not working again!
It’s very frustrating, it was so reliable before, and I heavily rely on it.
Currently looking in to alternatives, but would love this issue to be resolved so I can go back to using it again. - To anybody who it works for ONLY after signing in & out, have you noticed any lagging / change in upload patterns? For me it used to upload photos then videos last but now it uploads randomly and still lags and gets glitchy.
Thanks
Ákos M. Evan P.4 BuckWebb } since you guys have been having problems too - It is not nearly as responsive, in terms of noticing new photos and uploading them.
Once it starts uploading it does them about as fast as in the past.
The startup phase seems to be where it is now much much slower. I could deal with that if it were reliable.
I can say that it has gone two days where I haven’t had to log out and back in every time and it does eventually do it.
I just tested it with a photo and it took about 30 seconds after “looking for photos” to find it and then quickly upload it.
It feels like the message is misleading - they have changed it to not consume a lot of battery so it is doing a lot more stuff that it’s not telling us, but leaving the message.
It’s a mess. I also had the 'iPhone not backing up my new photos' issue after I updated to the most recent version. I had done lots of things over a week or so. After reading this thread I signed/out in and it now works. Hurrah. The last message I got before reading this forum was
'Dropbox photo backup stopped working Contact Dropbox to fix it'
Which would seem to imply it was more than just an authentication issue.
- It has become more reliable over time. And the weird pause thing is much less now. I’m guessing that it is unreliable for a few days at first because though it says it is looking for photos, in fact it is doing something else - indexing, building a local DB, checksum, etc. because it is happy now.
Like Rob above, I'm now receiving "Dropbox photo backup stopped working Contact Dropbox to fix it". I had 28 images/movies to upload, and the error happened after it finished syncing the first movie. After restarting the app the other 27 images were no longer recognized as being in queue to be uploaded. Ended up having to text them to myself on a Mac - definitely would love this issue resolved ASAP.
- Aannndd, my Dropbox just gave me the Dropbox has stopped working, contact support message. Grr
