How Do I Automatically Upload Photos To Dropbox

You probably know the Dropbox desktop app tin automatically sync whatsoever file y'all add together, only did y'all know Dropbox can also automatically grab photos from your phone, tablet, or camera? Here's how to do that, and how to automatically upload Gmail attachments, Instagram photos, and files from thousands of other apps.

Automatically Upload Photos From Your Phone or Camera

Your telephone, your camera, your tablet—it tin exist hard to go on rail of all of your photos and videos. Dropbox can automatically upload media from all of these devices, allowing you to organize and share them from one place. And setting it up isn't hard.

Automatically Upload Photos, Videos, and Screenshots to your Calculator

Dropbox can automatically grab photos and videos every time y'all plug in your camera.

First, click the Dropbox icon in your system tray or menu bar. In the window that pops up, click the gear icon at meridian-right, then click Preferences. Here'due south how this looks on macOS (Windows is like):

Dropbox icon

In the Preferences window, open up the Import tab, and you'll find settings for camera uploads and screenshots.

Dropbox settings Import

Check Enable camera uploads, and Dropbox will automatically grab files from whatsoever camera you connect to your computer. You can optionally besides enable videos. All files volition show upwards, unsorted, in the Camera Uploads folder in your Dropbox.

Dropbox tin can also automatically upload screenshots. Screenshots will be added to the Screenshots binder in your Dropbox, and the URL will be automatically added to your clipboard. Here'due south a refresher on how to have a screenshot on various platforms.

Automatically Upload Photos, Videos, and Screenshots to Your Phone or Tablet

The all-time photographic camera is the one yous take with yous, and that'due south well-nigh e'er your phone. Here's how to automatically upload all of your telephone's photos to Dropbox.

You'll need to install the Dropbox app on your computer, phone, or tablet. Then you need to enable the automatic uploads as described above. Open the Dropbox app on your telephone, and then head to the settings to find the Camera uploads choice. Hither's how that looks on Android; iPhone and iPad are like.

Dropbox Android Camera Uploads

Brand sure Camera uploads is enabled, and then decide if y'all want to include videos and whether this should use your cellular information. Every photo y'all take from now on volition exist uploaded to Dropbox, pregnant you now take admission to your phone's photos from anywhere you can access Dropbox.

Automatically Upload Files to Dropbox From 1,000+ Apps

Zapier can connect 1,000+ apps to Dropbox, allowing yous to automatically upload all sorts of files.

For example, you could upload every Gmail zipper to a folder in Dropbox.

Or yous could automatically save your new Instagram photos.

Information technology'due south as well possible for your Evernote attachments to automatically upload.

You could fifty-fifty go on any OneDrive binder in sync with a folder in your Dropbox, which is nice when someone insists on sharing using OneDrive instead of Dropbox.

The possibilities are countless, so check out our Dropbox integrations to learn more of what you can do.

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