Hi all Plex users and Plex team!

I love Plex and I bough a Plex Pass only for its “Camera Upload” amazing feature.

I’ve been waiting this kind of feature for a long time to :

• import my photos quickly and cordless on my computer (to PMS),
• avoid uploading my personal photos on a cloud (because of privacy concerns and also my poor internet connection).

But I think this could be HIGHLY improved to become a real “Photos Manager”, no only a streaming server.
I’m sure this could be THE “Plex killer feature” that will make many users buy a Plex pass!

So please let me make a set of feature request about it (I’ll do several posts, as described in forum guidelines)

View all my feature requests HERE.

If you also want a feature, don’t forget to vote for it (by liking my corresponding post).

MANY THANKS! B)

Request #1

Do background “Camera Upload” from iOS when Plex app inactive, like Dropbox

On my iOS Plex app client, I enabled camera upload and also enabled “automatic upload” option.

So each time I open the Plex app, it will scan my local iOS photos library and if new media are found, they are uploaded to my PMS. Well.

BUT when I quit the Plex app (clicking the iPhone HOME button, so the app goes to background), the upload hangs.
If I open again the app, the upload continues where it was stopped.

I know that iOS have limitations for apps to be active in background, and that you can’t upload photos indefinitely on background.

BUT I also know that iOS should allow an app to be active on background for some time (for example 10 minutes) after being in background.

For example, Dropbox has a Camera Upload feature. Whan the upload begins, if I quit the Dropbox app, it will continue to upload for a few minutes in background.

With my poor internet connection I upload some few photos, but with a local upload through WiFi to PMS on my computer, this should upload many more photos!

SO: I’d LOVE if you could improve the background Camera upload feature on iOS!

Thanks for reading, don’t forget to like this post if you like this feature request! <3

@antoinath said:
So please let me make a set of feature request about it (I’ll do several posts, as described in forum guidelines)

Please read all of the forum guidelines.

No duplicate requests

https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/121859/ios-app-background-syncing-and-automatic-camera-upload

Not trying to hijack the thread but following on from your photo manager theme it would be cool if users could delete photos from the app as well.

For instance if I invite family member A (who has there own non plex pass account) to my server and allow them ‘camera upload’ to my server it would be great if they could delete photos they don’t want (recycle bin would be awesome).

Point here would be that if they have mobile devices with relatively small storage they could get rid of it to my server through Plex but since they don’t have access to the server directly manager their photos through the Plex client app.

@umiq88 said:
Not trying to hijack the thread but following on from your photo manager theme it would be cool if users could delete photos from the app as well.

As per the foum guidelines: only one feature request per thread, please.
Please search if this has been requested before and if not, create an own ‘request’ thread.

OK sorry I missed that first one!
Si I’ll add a comment in the other thread and vote for it!

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate