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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 7afb77b..74dae15 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -378,6 +378,37 @@ coordinates are still inside the photo itself, as your phone wrote them, so anyone who downloads the original file has them. Strip them before sharing if that matters to you. +### Backing up your phone's photos + +On the Android application, **Settings → Photo backup** sends the photos taken +on your phone to a folder of one of your groups, once a day. + +- **Set up** asks for access to your photos, then for a group, a folder and the + albums to send. Only folders you may add to and that the group's Photos tab + shows are offered. The camera is ticked; screenshots and other albums are + yours to add. +- By default **the photos already on the phone are sent too**, newest first, + then each new one. Choose "Only photos taken from now on" to skip the ones + already there. +- Before anything is sent you are told where the photos go, how many members + the group has and how much will be sent. **Everyone in that group will be + able to see and download them.** You can delete what you sent afterwards, + but not the copies others have already downloaded — so pick the group with + care. Changing the group or the folder later asks again. +- It runs **on Wi-Fi only** (more exactly, on a connection that is not charged + by the amount), once a day, while the application is open — with the screen + off too. If the application was not opened all day, it runs the next time it + is. **Back up now** runs at once; on mobile data it tells you how much it is + about to send and asks first. +- Photos go into folders by year and month (`2026/10`). **A photo you delete + from the phone stays in the group**, and one deleted from the group is not + sent again. A photo you edit on the phone is sent again beside the original, + with `-edited-` and the date in its name. +- **Where a photo was taken is removed** from the copy that is sent. +- If the backup cannot go on — the node's disk is full, the folder no longer + accepts files, you left the group — it stops, says why once in a + notification and in Settings, and tries again the next day. + ### Search The magnifying glass in the sidebar searches **across every group you are in** @@ -1030,6 +1061,12 @@ Better to know now than to go looking for it: with the screen off, from one track to the next, with a notification shown while it plays. A phone browser works too. - **A node cannot be hosted on Android**, and is not planned to be. +- **Photo backup only runs while the application is open** (the screen may be + off). There is no button yet to remove everything the phone sent to a group + in one go — delete those files from the group instead. +- **Photos in the HEIC format are backed up but do not show in Photos** yet: + they are in the folder (Files lists them) and can be downloaded. Most Android + phones take JPEG unless set otherwise. - **Hubs do not talk to each other yet.** Everyone in a group needs an account on the same hub. - **Casting reaches Chromecast devices** from the desktop and Android |