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I love the idea behind this. Having all the photos from my EOS R10 auto-uploaded and shared to my Google Drive sounds like it would make my workflows a lot easier. The problem is it just doesn’t work reliably enough to be useful. In the several weeks since I’ve had it set up, I’ve taken over 500 photos, and only 3 have successfully uploaded. There seem to be a couple issues that cause this. First, it only starts uploading when the camera is in range if your home wifi AND turned on. It can’t connect when the power switch is off like the Canon Camera Connect app can. So if you’re shooting anywhere away from home, you’ll have to manually power on the camera and open the auto-upload settings in order to make sure the “automatic” upload feature is actually doing anything. And that’s where the second problem comes in: probably 2 out of every 3 photos it attempts to auto-upload will fail for no apparent reason, and when this happens it’ll just stop the auto-upload process entirely until after a power cycle. So unless you’re okay with turning on your camera again every time you get home from a shoot and letting it run down the battery while you carefully monitor its slow progress and turn it off and on again every 5 minutes or so, this probably won’t work for you. I’d recommend using Canon’s other app, Camera Connect, instead. It’s a bit more of a manual process (but then so is this), and requires a connected smartphone, but it works much more reliably and doesn’t require you to be in range of your home wifi. Plus, if you really want your photos auto-uploaded to a cloud storage account of some sort, there’s other apps available that can do that from your phone’s camera roll after you’ve pulled the photos off your camera.

Looks like a mediocre app. I can’t even use my existing canon ID to log in. It seems to want to create a whole new ID and it thinks my address is already in use. That’s correct since I am already logged into my canon account on their website. Usually you migrate users over rather than start a whole new thing. I have managed to make a new account that is sort of connected to my old account. It only knows one of my cameras. There is no connection to any of my other registered products of theirs. Seems like an easy and smart thing to do for the developers so I feel like it is not just a skinned product of someone else.

This is a nightmare! Why on earth would you not allow us to continue to choose specifically which photos we can transfer over? 1200 photos on my camera, only need about 100- no computer access at the moment- so sure, let me sit here for 8 hours while I wait for all 1200 to load! What an absolutely idiotic creation. I am SO disappointed and now having to look into other camera brands because this is such a colossal waste of time. Also delighted to find out that in wasting hours of my life I’ll never get back, I find out that they have a whopping 30 days before they get wiped off?! You want me to waste my time loading hundreds to even thousands of photos I don’t necessarily need, and then once I FINALLY get them up, they have an expiration date, so I get to do it all over again?!?! I’m sorry to whine to other users who are reading this, but I am FURIOUS about this change and I’m sure you all are, too. Get it together, Canon and actually LISTEN to your customers!