Aura Frames 4+

I can share pictures from my phone AT ANY TIME!!! My dad lives 40 minutes away and it would be a pain to have to manually go over there and update the SD card with new pictures. My dad and I are both in IT and highly value efficiency. I also love that there is no monthly fee, and no limit to how many people we can add to our frame (no extra cost per person)! The only things I wish I could add would be quotes. There are times where I have a small story or quote someone said that I’d like to share. It would totally would be hard to read if the text was long. Maybe having the option to show a small watermark that displays live on the frame: the location and date of each picture. Another thing: captions or tags. “Omaha Zoo Trip 2019” for example. With option to display live on frame per picture.

I used to think the app was so easy and then some update happened and now it infuriates me. I always edit my photos in LR and then I export them to my photos. Not sure if it was the new Apple update but now in the aura app, those recently edited photos no longer show up at the end of my album but instead mixed into the unedited photos so instead of selecting the most recent 30 edits.. I have to scroll through 100s of photos and decipher which ones are edited. On top of that, when I’m trying to add from the aura app and import the photos from the Lightroom folder, it automatically starts in my collection from like 4 years ago and every single time I have to scroll through like 4 years of photos just to get to my latest. Once again, it used to not be this way. I have no idea if it’s just aura not being super compatible with the latest Apple update but it is MADDENING. Like.. to the point that I barely add photos to the 4 frames that we have purchased for ourselves and family members… and I used to add almost daily. Pleeeeeeaaasee I’m begging you to fix this because I’m obsessed with the frame… but HATE the process of adding photos now.

I just got my first Aura frame. I’m happy with the product but wish I could have gotten one of the smaller frames with wall mount option. And I wish I could have gotten the larger frames without the mat. Anyway, as for the app, there are two big annoyances. First off, choosing from my iPhone photo library, the album order is completely random. It does not match the order in Photos. 99% of apps do this the right way. Aura is in the 1% that does it wrong because they are using a custom photo picker. This is super annoying. It took me 4 tries to find the album I wanted — the album is the first album in Photos, but was in completely random place about 3/4 down. There are also no sort abilities at all, so I couldn’t sort by name. This needs to be fixed. The other problem is they only provide two options for how to display photos, shuffle or chronological. There is no option for a manual sort order. This is a huge oversight. What’s the point of being able to do a slideshow when you can’t even put them in the order you want them presented?