new photos only show up after viewing them on ios photo app, right after taking photos.

[steve5355]

After taking a photo on iphone, then opening the immich app, the new photos would not show up at the top of my timeline. I tried closing it out and back in, but still no new photos I just took. It wasn't until I opened the native ios photos app, to see the images show up there, then flip back to the immich app, the new photos are now there in immich at the top of the timeline!

not sure if this is an issue or just an ios thing where the app can't "see" the images until they are fully updated in the camera roll.

[alextran1502]

Hmm, very interesting. I guess it has to be fully updated in the camera roll for other app that use it to see.

[DanTulovsky]

In my case, simply quitting the app (as in, swipe it away) and then starting it again makes the photo appear. Is there anything that can be done about that?

[alextran1502]

New sync mechanism is being worked on which I hope would address these annoying issues

[DanTulovsky]

Ah thank you. I also seems to have the problem that if I delete a photo in the ios app, I can still see it in the webapp. Is that expected?

[alextran1502]

Depends, do you have auto foreground backup on? And if you delete just from the Immich server or delete from both the server and your devices?

[DanTulovsky]

I have both foreground and background on. I just did a test:

1. Take picture on ios. Go into ios app, wait until picture shows up.
2. I can see the picture in ios. Check webapp. I can also see the picture there. All is well.
3. Delete picture in ios. Ok.. there is a difference this time. I have more options, like archive as well as delete. The first time I just had a delete option and when I clicked it, I was told I am deleting something on the phone only. This is despite the fact that I could see the picture on the webapp as well. So something was out of sync here.

In this case, deleting from the ios app also deleted from the webapp. In the first case the photo was synced using background sync. This time it must have done foreground as I went into the app right away. Let me try with background sync again.

[DanTulovsky]

Ok, so:

1. Take picture on ios. Wait for background sync notification.
2. Received notification, checked in webapp, picture is there.
3. Touch notification on ios app to go into immich. I don't see the picture in the ios app.
4. Drag down to refresh, still no picture.
5. Swipe away ios app and restart it. Now I see the picture.
6. Select picture, I have three options: share, delete from and upload.
7. Click delete from. Message about Delete Permanently. Says: some pictures aren't backed up.
8. Have three options: cancel, delete backed up only, delete anyway
9. Click: delete anyway.
10. Picture is gone from ios app, but still there in the webapp.

So the problem seems to be that the backup sync isn't properly linking the picture with the server somehow?

[alextran1502]

How long did you stay on the photos page before deciding that the photo wasn't there to switch away? You can see the circular spinning at the bottom tab, while it is spinning it means the sync process is going on.

Let me know how it goes

[DanTulovsky]

I'll check, I am pretty sure it wasn't spinning. But.. does that matter? Is there a double sync going on here? i.e. the background sync just uploads the photo, but the app also needs to update something when it's running?

[alextran1502]

Correct, background and foreground tasks are two separate mechanism and run on different thread.

[DanTulovsky]

I see... maybe I'll just stick to foreground syncing... seems less prone to issues. Thank you.