![]() PhotoSync can only run - and transfer - in the background for 3 minutes. This has to do with the 3 minute background operation restriction in iOS. The geofencing doesn't use GPS at all.Īnother common problem may be the fact that an autotransfer is not completing. PhotoSync only uses GPS to help you to pinpoint your location in the autotransfer setup process. The resolution of the geofence isn’t very high because iOS isn’t using GPS for the geofence detection, it just uses cell and (if available Wi-Fi) triangulation because this doesn’t waste much battery life compared to GPS location tracking. This trick may work to improve the location trigger. ![]() If you always approach from the same direction to your location, you might try to hold and move the pin of the location that you set in the autotransfer settings further away from your location in order to force it to trigger a bit later. need to reach a Wi-Fi network in a large story building where it necessarily takes some time from the street where the location very likely triggered the app until reaching the Wi-Fi range. Obviously the way from the location trigger to the Wi-Fi range is too long. Two and a half minutes later, PhotoSync did not get a Wi-Fi connection. At 00:38:26 the location triggered PhotoSync to start. PhotoSync identified 6 new photos on the device and started the autotransfer to the configured target.Įntered location: CLCircularRegion (identifier:'12E30363-BB0D-494B-9208-E71D7C374BFA', center:, radius:100.00m)Īutotransfer failed. One minute and 42 seconds later the user entered the range of the Wi-Fi network. At 15:09:09 the location triggered PhotoSync to start. Starting autotransfer to Anni's Mac Mini Server for 6 objects Found: Object: Photo, index: 636, file name: IMG_1298.JPG Found: Object: Photo, index: 635, file name: IMG_1297.JPG Found: Object: Photo, index: 634, file name: IMG_1296.JPG Found: Object: Photo, index: 633, file name: IMG_1295.JPG Found: Object: Photo, index: 632, file name: IMG_1294.JPG Found: Object: Photo, index: 631, file name: IMG_1293.JPG These are examples how the logs may look alike for an autotransfer:Įntered location: CLCircularRegion (identifier:'12D3D3A9-1256-4A33-948E-AF45EDC50471', center:, radius:100.00m) If there is a problem with the 3 minute background operation time, the logs will show you which kind of failure did occur. ![]() If there is no entry showing that a location triggered PhotoSync to start, then the geofence location did not work and needs to be adjusted. The next time you suspect an autotransfer to run, please check the logs and see what is listed there. ![]() To find out the reason why an autotransfer didn't work, you can enable the logging in the PhotoSync settings under Service & Support. That may be the problem that an autotransfer doesn't work when you have the Wait for Wi-Fi option enabled. If it doesn't have a signal, because the app was started and you needed more than this time to reach your Wi-Fi range, PhotoSync will stop and go to sleep again because we think that there should be at least the 30 remaining seconds available for a transfer. If you enabled in the autotransfer settings that PhotoSync should Wait for Wi-Fi, after waking up the app tries for 2 minutes and 30 seconds to get a proper Wi-Fi signal. PhotoSync registers the locations that you add in the autotransfer settings in iOS and iOS wakes up PhotoSync when you reach such a location. ![]() That's the reason why PhotoSync is not running permanently to check if you reached a location or if you have new photos on your device. That's valid for all apps except phone, streaming and GPS tracking apps which can request special permissions - and of course Apples own apps. You might know that apps in iOS are only allowed to run in the background (with screen locked or when brought to the background by pressing the home button) for a maximum time of 3 minutes. The autotransfer is limited in some ways which is caused by restrictions set by Apple. ![]()
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