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  • Facebook Photo Sync Launches for iOS & Android, Lets You Automatically Upload 2GB of Photos

    After expanding the test to iOS users last week, Facebook has officially launched Photo Sync for both Android and iOS devices. Photo Sync allows users to enable automatic uploading of any photos they take with their mobile device straight to Facebook. No manual uploading, no hassle. Just seamless photo uploading.

    And sharing of course. But the sharing is where you’ll have to make some decisions. With Photo Sync, all of your photos are automatically uploaded to Facebook, but they aren’t automatically posted to your Timeline. Any photo uploaded via Photo Sync will appear in a separate, private folder within your Facebook photos. From there, you can choose which (if any) photos you want to publish to your friends.

    “Today we’re excited to roll out photo sync, which makes it easier to share photos. With this feature, photos from your phone sync automatically to a private album on the web. When you want to share these photos, just pick and post your favorites,” says Facebook. “We began testing photo sync in August and will continue to make it available to more people.”

    All you have to do to enable Photo Sync is go to your photos section and find the “sync” button. It will appear at the bottom of your photos section on the mobile app. You can also set up Photo Sync via desktop.

    Once you start using Photo Sync, you’ll have 2GB worth of storage. Yes, Facebook just dug itself a little bit deeper into the cloud storage game. Even if you don’t choose to make any of your automatically-uploaded photos public, you can store them all in a 2GB cloud locker for free.

    Here’s what Facebook says about when they sync your photos:

    We generally try to sync your photos as soon as you take them. However, we also take into account a number of factors, such as your battery level and sync settings. New photos that you take will be privately synced as you take them. In your syncing settings, you can choose to sync over Wi-Fi and your cellular network, sync or over Wi-Fi only, or turn syncing off entirely. You can also choose to sync all photos in your camera roll over wifi and see how much storage space you have available.

    When you sync over a 3G or 4G connection, Facebook uploads your photos at a smaller size (100K). When you are uploading via Wi-Fi, Facebook will bump the size back up.

    So, if you always wanted to share more photos with your Facebook friends but were impeded by your severe disdain for waiting eight seconds for the photo to upload, your lucky day has arrived.

  • 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.