The loading time when the image gallery previews need to be fetched from the server is a lot slower in the iOS app compared to the web app. In the iOS app, fetching a gallery page of about 30 images takes around 12 seconds. In the web app it’s less than a second (Mobile Safari, same device). It would be great if the loading time could be improved in the iOS app. It’s quite a slow process trying to find a certain photo by scrolling through the timeline history.

JetA2 17 days ago

It would be great if there was an option for a shared album to appear more like a “local” album, at least for accounts that are on the same storage plan. At the moment I can only view and upload pictures in a shared album. When sharing albums between family members, more features would be desirable. What I would like to do: Add an item in a shared album to my favourites. Add an item in a shared album to a “local” album. Have items from a shared album show up in the main timeline, just like if it was a “local” album.

JetA2 18 days ago

There's a real lack of settings in the app. No security settings, no backup settings, no plan upgrade or data used etc, will this be added?

JAC 27 days ago

Allow the user to login via Biometric login, the 2FA in place only allows you to scan the QR code. Other competitor apps have this feature and I want this European app and company to succeed please add features like this. Keep it up!

JAC 27 days ago

Currently, if I set up automatic backup, it will try to backup all the photos that are already in that folder. It would be nice to have an option to disable this behaviour and have automatic backup only apply to new pictures to avoid duplicates and unnecessary bandwidth usage. As a sidenote, the option to not show folders with .nomedia files (folders that have been marked to be ignored by media apps) would also be nice.

Skybreaker 28 days ago

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I have an album which shows a different amount of elements/items on web and in the iOS app. Web app: “38650 elements”. iOS app: “38644 Items”. I assume this is because iOS cannot display some file formats. It would be interesting to be able to see a list of the file names that cannot be displayed. That way I could convert them to a different format.

JetA2 about 1 month ago

Ability to mark a face on the photo, which was not detected by Face Detection. If there are photos with multiple faces and not all of them were detected, it would be nice to be able to select an area with that face and mark it either with a specific name already, or just with “not assigned” so it can be assigned later.

ant23 about 2 months ago

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It would be nice to have list of labels / tags in use (along with a numer of photos where they are present). Something like a heatmap or a sortable list, where one could click on a tag/label and go to all the pictures with that specific tag/label.

ant23 about 2 months ago

On the People tab, allow to filter for pictures still having “not assigned” faces. If detected faces are grouped under a specific name/person, there should also be a group for those that are still not assigned to a specific name/person.

ant23 about 2 months ago

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Currently you can only share albums, but we want to support to share also a group of album (folder).

zeitkapsl about 2 months ago

The ask here is not for full iOS 16 support iOS 16 users all know they are on old devices and are losing access to a lot of apps, including this platform. Current and future legacy users would still benefit substantially from at least an ability to upload their photos, even if many other features are not available. iOS 16 is the current legacy version of iOS, buuuut it is a weird one: It continues to receive security updates, e.g. official support. All devices that supported iOS 17 (the current iOS requirement for the app at time of posting) also support iOS 18. There is virtually no reason to provide support for iOS 17 over iOS 18. Practically, this adds only one model, the iPhone 8 (and 8+), which is still in use by slow adopters and users with limited means. On the silicon level, the iphone 8 shares its cpu/chipset with the iphone X (A11 “Bionic”), which is currently supported by the app on iOS 18. (and so there are no concerns about performance here) The 8 was the year’s budget model of the same year as the iphone X, and continued to be popular as users were wary of the face recognition unlock. It was available for purchase well after the X was discontinued as the budget option. The 8+ was among the first generation of devices that had multiple cameras. It’s still a good / “good enough” camera. (if a developer wouldn’t mind just trying to compile with the os support version set to iOS 16 to see what happens, we could have a conversation.)

Eli Jones 2 months ago

I want to be able to edit my custom labels, face detection labels or OCR labels, for spelling errors, changing them or simply deleting. Currently there’s no way to edit or delete any of the labels. I can remove them from the picture, but they are still there somewhere. Not sure about the OCR labels, perhaps they are deleted once removed from the picture and no other picture has them. But for sure my custom labels are still there and can’t be deleted.

ant23 2 months ago

It would be useful to have the option to protect shared content with a password, adding an extra layer of security. Additionally, allowing shared albums to remain accessible without a fixed expiration date would improve usability, as the current setup requires defining an end date.

selecta 3 months ago

The app only displays photos and videos that have already been uploaded, with no option to view media stored locally on the device. This makes it difficult to upload new items or manage existing ones. Additionally, if a photo or video is deleted from the cloud, there is no way to re-upload it. Providing access to local media and allowing re-uploads would significantly improve usability and give users better control over their backups.

selecta 3 months ago

Currently, setting the location of a photo or video is only possible by placing a pin on the map, which can be cumbersome and imprecise, especially for exact locations. I suggest adding the option to enter an address or GPS coordinates (latitude/longitude) directly. This enhancement would make location editing faster, more accurate, and more user-friendly, particularly for users who already know the exact location details.

selecta 3 months ago

Sometimes if I open the app (iOS) I can see several pictures which are not synced. Even if I go into the settings screen, nothing happens (WLAN is available AND it is recognized by the App - WLAN Symbol at the top right). At the moment I have to change the settings, if I’d like to trigger the sync process (I think, this is working??). It would be nice, if I could just press the sync-symbol right beside the number of pictures to be synced to start the sync process (and of course the check for WLAN, if this is a thing).

PTrQn 3 months ago

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At the moment, sync activity is not visible in the Picture-View, only in the Settings-Screen. Maybe one can see the running sync process for the current object (picture/video), but if that object is not on the screen, the user cannot see, if the sync process is running. Idea: show sync activity e.g. as a circling sign around the profile/settings button. Or as a progress bar around the icon. Or a small string “sync in progress” with a moving background progress bar (background color grows from left to right). As soon as the synchronization is done, the string disappears.

PTrQn 3 months ago

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Provided how prominence animated gif files are, it would be extremely valuable to be able to upload and view animated gifs within zeitkapsl.

Dalia 3 months ago

In the albums, if there are vertically aligned photos their miniatures are made to fit horizontally. This makes them look “funny” and distorted. It’s fine on the main Photo page, were all the photos are listed. So I’d like to see the same behavior in the albums as well :)

ant23 4 months ago

I’d like to know to which albums a photo is assigned, when I check the photo’s info page. This way I’d know if I already added a photo to the album or not, or that perhaps I have too many albums with a specific photo :)

ant23 4 months ago

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