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Facebook is testing a new photo sync system which automatically uploads photos taken on Android handsets to the web.
If that sounds familiar, that’s because it is: Google+ already features an instant photo-upload feature which uploads all your shots to the cloud. Like Google’s system, Facebook’s new feature ensures your pictures remain private, placing them in a “Synced from Phone” tab inside your Photos page.
The sync feature currently appears to be available to a very small number of users, but there’s already a help page up online so it’s very much real. To find out if you’re one of the users who have the feature enabled, navigate to your timeline on your Android, hit Photos, and see if there’s a sync button at the bottom.
It’s currently unclear if this feature will be rolled out more widely. But it seems likely. [Facebook via Verge]
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A Giz post that mentions Google+ without making a snide comment about it. Ladies and Gentlemen mark your calenders.
Woop Woop it’s a bloody Android article!! Quiet, dont make a noise, you may spook it and frighten it away!
Your advice about being quiet would have been better if you hadn’t started with the “Woop Woop”
Dropbox does this too.
Apologies for lack of snark in my previous comment.
That’s fine, we’ll just take it as read.
and dropbox gave us free space!
With Google+ the upload space for photo’s is unlimited. I assume the same will be true of facebook.
True although I currently have nearly 55Gb of Dropbox space which I’m not planning on using up any time soon.
Don’t you need need that for that copy of Shakespeare’s plays you are writing?
How many naked pictures are accidentally going to get posted to Facebook due to this?
Now would be a good time to steer your parents away from an Android phone.. or Facebook.. *shudder*
In theory, none. If it works like G+ (and if you are going to steal an idea, why only steal half) it will upload to a separate folder which no-one can see but you. Only when you post a pic in a comment, does it become visible to others (and then only those you have shared it with).
shhhh, you’re ruining my dreams of drunk girls nights out appearing on Facebook
Just search for the group “Embarrassing Nightclub Photos” on Facebook..
I shall do that now. Thank you.
This feature is also available on windows phone 7. Pictures can be uploaded automatically to Skydrive. (in a private folder if U want…)