SELPHY Photo Layout ٤+

Worked really smoothly for me before, but now with the updates it takes longer to pull up my photos. I do have A LOT of pictures, so its understandable, but it didn’t use to take a while and now it does. Like 1-2 minutes to pull them up from Recents, and another 2 minutes if I want to sort by folders instead of just the default Recent photos. As far as the updates go, I really like the new features! Love the option to change the border size and being able to crop or move the image directly from the preview page is nice!

This is not an app I use often, but when I do, sometimes I have difficulty getting it to connect to the printer. After a few tries I am usually successful. One thing I have learned however is that when a developer changes the design of the app icon, read the reviews before taking an update. Based on what I’m seeing here, I won’t be updating for now. The last thing I need is more trouble trying to connect to the printer.

On another note, Dear App Developer, When your product is known by a specific name, that name NEEDS to appear on the app icon. Do NOT use your internal acronyms that make no sense to your users. It may be SPL to you all day long, but to me I can’t tell if this is an app I use for work with the same acronym or if I downloaded something I didn’t realize. I’m certainly not going to associate SPL with my little Canon printer. I’m looking for the app that says SELPHY. Why? Because that’s the name of your product associated with the app!

Trying for hours after getting my SELPHY printer, only ONCE was I able to actually connect to the printer and print a photo using this app. I eventually gave up and called it a night. The next day, I took a different approach. Using the app, I made my edits to the photos I wanted to print, and saved them to a separate folder. I then used software called CopyTrans to connect my iPhone to a PC and copied the photos onto the PC to an SD card. I then put the SD card into the SELPHY and was able to print the photos from the printer itself. While it involves a few extra steps, this method works every time for me.

This app isn’t too bad for editing the photos - it’s pretty decent actually. Its high points are overshadowed by its poor ability to print directly from the app to the printer. Canon should really do better than selling a printer with sub-standard software support.