Edited photos on iPhone are not synced automatically

[mplonski]

The bug

Whenever you edit a photo on iPhone, immich app should detect it and reupload it automatically. Currently it's not detected and one needs to delete a photo in immich, and reupload it using in-app backup.

The OS that Immich Server is running on

official docker image run within UnRaid

Version of Immich Server

v1.103.1

Version of Immich Mobile App

v1.103.0

Platform with the issue

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

Your docker-compose.yml content

I don't have one - it's deployed using UnRaid plugin

Your .env content

I don't have one - it's deployed using UnRaid plugin

Reproduction steps

1. take a picture on iPhone
2. upload it to Immich using in-app backup
3. make sure it's uploaded to Immich server
4. edit the photo on iPhone (e.g. crop it)
5. trigger backup in Immich app
6. nothing happens, the photo should be updated

Relevant log output

No response

Additional information

No response

[sidamos]

Same here. And your workaround does not work for me. When I delete the original photo in Immich web, it vanishes also in the iOS app but I cannot trigger manual backup because the button is disabled. The edited photo never appears in the iOS app.

[mplonski]

@sidamos actually, for me the button on the picture view also doesn't do anything, the backup tool in the app does the thing.

[alextran1502]

When you edit a photo, the Photos app saves a separate XMP file, not a new file; that is why you cannot upload the edited photo

[sidamos]

@sidamos actually, for me the button on the picture view also doesn't do anything, the backup tool in the app does the thing.

Not for me. Once I delete the original in Immich, the edited one never shows up in Immich. My workaround is to duplicate the edited photo in the iOS gallery app.

[mplonski]

@alextran1502 so... is it treated as a separate file when edited? Or backup mechanism in the app doesn't support updating edited files yet? Because at least in my case it uploads the edited version only when I delete the image in the UI, or when the image was never uploaded, it doesn't update it at all when I edit already synced image in the Photos app.

[alextran1502]

@mplonski

Or backup mechanism in the app doesn't support updating edited files yet

The library we used I believe isn't making this distinction. And we haven't worked on supporting this yet

[mplonski]

@alextran1502 ok, so it looks like it's something between a bug (since the backup function in the app works differently depending on if something was already uploaded) and a feature request (since re-uploading edited pictures is not implemented yet). What's next? I'm not a nodejs engineer, so I won't be able to help here.