Synology Photos 4+

Needs a lot of work

Moving from Moments to this app I lost all the AI folders where I used to go to find specific photos not knowing when was taken to browse that way. Now it takes ages to find specific photos that I don’t know when was take. Very surprised you removed a major feature the AI.
“Upload Queue” is always at zero not showing the backed up or the queued photos, however I can see there’s quite a few photos to be backed up and backing up, just not showing under upload queue.
I didn’t find a better way to pass this feedback.
I don’t want to particularly open a support ticket since it’s related to a lack of app development at this point in time. I know it’s fairly new so knowing Synology products I’m sure you’ll improve it. Really hoping to be able to import all the AI folders from Moments into this app.

Works well!

Uploading process for a first time user is long for someone with slow internet, but using the sleep time backup overnight with a non auto-locking screen works great.

Shared albums, airplay, and people detection all work great. Can easily merge people when you find duplicates.
Live photos integrate well. Play as expected when you hold a photo down within the app.
Cannot download as a live photo, but can download the live photo as a still image or video.

Thanks!

My suggestions:
- Notifications for new uploads in a shared album ***

- A switch to exclude screenshots from being included in future mobile back ups

- Not sure if it’s possible but to detect locally deleted/edited photos.

— If I delete photos from my phone, maybe they can appear in a “recently deleted on device” view. It can recognise the deleted photo is on the server and offer a way to delete them there too

— If I edit a photo, can it suggest to replace the existing backed up photo.

These would be big features that would help me maintain a clean library with only the best and most current versions of photos

I would be more than happy to run a manual search once a month on my phone to check for deleted and edited photos if thats the only solution

Developer Response ,

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No Editing Feature whatsoever!

The app works quite well for storing photos and videos. As a photographer I mean issue with this app is that there is no editing facilities whatsoever if that timer to rotate the image. And what makes it worse is it if you edit the image before uploading to synergy photos and then you’ll be edit that same image you’re stuck with the original image uploaded in other words. No changes are made to the image uploaded in Synology Photos app. It’s quite frustrating as every other image app allows even basic edits. Come on Synology! When will you be fixing this problem? I Don’t want to be forced to stop using it and having to find another solution! Pleas give us a update and timeline on this..