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  • Flickr for iOS Gets Auto-Upload, Auto-Straightening

    If you use Flickr on iOS 7, you no longer have to manually upload your photos (unless you really want to).

    Flickr has just announced an update that brings an auto-upload function to the app. Just like auto-upload functions on apps like Google+ and Facebook, you can opt-in to having any photos you take automatically upload to your Flickr accounts. From there, you’ll have granular control over which photos you make public.

    With this update for iOS, Flickr is also adding an auto-straightening feature that they say will alleviate some frustration.

    “Our last update included customizable filters and editing tools, and we’re adding a powerful new addition: auto-straightening. Have you ever framed up the perfect photo but got bumped as you took the shot? It can be pretty frustrating. With the tap of a button, the Flickr app will instantly straighten your picture. It’s a tool that works like magic when your photo is just a little bit off,” says Flickr’s Markus Spiering.

    A little over a month ago, Flickr made a big improvement to their iOS app by adding live filters. Yahoo recently acquired IQ Engines as well, which will be used to improve Flickr in the future. That’s only one of a slew of acquisitions Yahoo has made, many of which seem to have direct implications to Flickr.

    When Yahoo first hired Marissa Mayer as CEO, she got hit with a clear directive from internet users: make Flickr awesome again. Whether or not it’s regained its awesome status is up to users, but Yahoo is definitely trying to improve the photo-sharing network.

    Image via Flickr Blog

  • Facebook Tests Photo Sync for iOS, Allowing Some Users to Auto-Upload Their Photos

    Facebook is expanding a test that they began a couple of months ago with the Android app. The company is currently testing Photo Sync for iOS, which allows users to have their smartphone photos instantly uploaded to a private Facebook album as soon as they take them.

    TechCrunch confirmed with Facebook that they are indeed running the small test with some iOS users

    Photo Sync is simple. When you have it enabled and take a photo with your phone, that photo will be saved inside a private album in your Facebook photos section. From there, you can determine which photos you want to make public. Facebook says they try to sync photos as soon as users take them, but it all depends on your internet connection and battery level.

    Facebook’s Synced from Phone photo album can hold 2GB of images.

    If you’re part of the test, you’ll see an option for Photo Sync inside your photos app on the left side navigation bar, or inside your photos section from your Timeline.

    Not only is Photo Sync easier than manually uploading every photo you take to Facebook, it serves as another backup location – should something happen to your phone (and you’ve been negligent with iCloud). Google+ added Instant Upload to its iOS app on Valentines’s Day of 2012 – and it works almost exactly the same as Facebook’s Photo Sync. Google+ marketed the feature with a poignant ad called “New Dad” which touted Instant Upload as an assurance that you’ll “never lose a memory.”

    Of course, this is just Facebook running one of its small tests, so there’s a chance that it will never come to fruition. But Photo Sync for iOS would be a strong move to claim more ground in the market for photos on social media. If Facebook can find a way to implement it without compromising user privacy, you should be all for it.