DS photo

- July 18, 2016

Everyone

( 6,263)

Description

**You must own a Synology NAS to run this app, and have upgraded to Photo Station 6.3 on your Synology NAS to get the complete set of features**

DS photo allows you to browse through the photo collection on your Synology NAS server on the go, as well as interact with friends using the comments in real time. Organizing your photos is easy: with traditional albums, using tags to create virtual albums or with a simple tap with the timeline mode! Better yet, download albums to the Android device to view them even when no network connection is available, and use the Photo Backup to effortlessly upload your photos taken with your Android device onto your own personal cloud.

Find all detailed features about the app on our website:
www.synology.com > DSM 5.2 > Mobile Apps > Software Specs
https://www.synology.com/dsm/5.2/software_spec#DSphoto

Reviews

3.9

6,263 total

5 2,982

4 1,562

3 707

2 365

1 646

Jay Jnr

Great app but i suggest you add an option to the Instant Upload to either overwrite or skip duplicate pictures/videos. Did a master reset on my phone - now its re-syncing ALL the pictures and videos that were already synced. 8/26/2016 Ran into the issue again.....

Eduardo Castilho

Overall works well. The upload options "immediately/periodically" should be further refined. I am not sure what "periodically" means, I would like to set how long the uploaded original stays on the phone, maybe 1day/1week/1month... Often I want to share a picture on WhatsApp and it's already uploaded and deleted. Keep up with the good work.

Remy Koelemij

Since over 10 months the DS Photo app doesn't finalize loading albums. The Photostation works perfect, I can login however this app never gives me a result (as in displays photo's). Tried reinstalling, emptying cache etc. No clue what causes this. Too bad, I liked this app.

Joe Saxton

Use it to back up original photos I download photos from external cameras to my tablet/phone when I'm out and about. Would be great if I could choose which photos/folders to back up. Also why isn't there an option to backup on wifi only. Synology makes great NAS devices but their mobile apps are sub par.

Daniel Ho

Issue with Android version Cannot display Timeline view for some reason. Works fine on iPhone. But only hit problems with Android. So I'm thinking it's the app.

David Johnston

Hid all my Camera photos from my phone Not sure why it did this. It made it look like my camera photos had been deleted! Had to delete the .nomedia file for them show up again

User reviews

Jay Jnr August 26, 2016

Eduardo Castilho September 11, 2016

Remy Koelemij August 22, 2016

Joe Saxton July 23, 2016

Daniel Ho August 31, 2016

Issue with Android version Cannot display Timeline view for some reason. Works fine on iPhone. But only hit problems with Android. So I'm thinking it's the app.

David Johnston August 4, 2016

Hid all my Camera photos from my phone Not sure why it did this. It made it look like my camera photos had been deleted! Had to delete the .nomedia file for them show up again

Jay Kresge August 7, 2016

"Better yet, download albums to the Android device to view them even when no network connection is available" Feature does not work. When attempting to download an album to the device, the download option is greyed out. Checked the option on the server side allowing users to download albums. More than enough space on target device as well.

Peter Kudinov July 22, 2016

My Photo sation is run. But when I'm try to log in (in HTTP) it said that I must to check IP and DSM must be more then ver. 3.0. In HTTPS it said ""connection is terminated. Login into the system and try again" (it's translation from russian). What I must to do?

Ingo Gerth July 21, 2016

Almost perfect Great app for automatic backups and browsing photos on your disk station. The only feature I'm missing is backup for WhatsApp and Telegram photos.

Ulf Persson July 30, 2016

No automatic upploading The thing seems to be some kind of album program for the NAS. Even my much cheaper WD NAS did upploading without problems.

Badr ALHinai September 11, 2016

Good over all experience but missing the following can't upload a video by sharing it from another app, it gave an error. Can't edit or add people tags !!

Kornél Czeglédi August 10, 2016

I cannot download a folder to device I cant download a group of photo or a folder to the device. I wanted to use on the device not to see.

Alden Hadzagic September 24, 2016

Service is disabled now I have no idea what this means

Paul Sheppard August 3, 2016

Backup not working Can not 'choose album to upload' when asked to, as no albums appear. Not working on my S7 edge or girlfriend's S6.

Robert Potter July 20, 2016

Great backup Used as auto back-up of photos and videos from all the family phones. Just works. No issues.

Bart Snijder June 24, 2016

Great for photo backup, although I miss the multiple foler selection (e.g. also backup whatsapp pics). There is however one problem. DS photo sometimes seems to create double copies of my photos / videos (filename.jpg and filename_1.jpg). The one called filename_1.jpg is the exact copy of the file on my phone. The one calles filename.jpg is visually the same but has a (slightly) different size and different date.

David Luu June 29, 2016

Cannot log in. Get an error message : "Login failed. Please make sure the DiskStation IP is correct and the DSM version is new than 3.0." I am using the latest DSM, 6.1. i don't have a problem logging in with DS File. please fix! I need to backup my phone photos! **Edited** 6/29/2016** Great Support from Synology! It turned out DS Photo in DSM was disabled. once I re-enabled it, everything is working great!

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear David, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Jon Otworth July 2, 2016

Unable to login since update ********UPDATE 7/1/2016: After following the suggestion from Synology's reply below, the DS Photos app began to work on both our phones again. Thank you for providing the fix. Happy wife, happy home.*******Updated to latest version DSM and now neither me or my wife can login. We both have new Android phones with latest version of app. I tried to file a issue report but email to support@ bounced back.

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear Jon, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Kyle B July 5, 2016

Makes me wonder why the hell I bought my NAS. Search is busted beyond recognition. Can't even play videos. Only good thing is auto upload. Rest of it is total and complete garbage. Synology appears to have no interest in fixing any of these issues. Hilariously, using the Firebox Mobile Web Browser and accessing the photo site via the web allows video playback while this OFFICIAL SYNOLOGY APP does not. WTF?

Scott Tostevin June 12, 2016

Wont let me log in Lately i keep getting told the login failed and to check my login details and that i am on dsm3 or above. Iogin details are correct and im on dsm6 so a useless app at present

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear Scott, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Dimitris Sagias July 10, 2016

Crashes too frequently I found that if the folder or a search result has more than a couple dozen photos the app crashes while scrolling down. Also the search function is very limited in functionality compared to the web interface. A petty because this could be a great app adding value to my new NAS.

Steve Gardiner June 19, 2016

Steve Gardiner I too get login failure message and my wife does on her phone. I have the latest software on my DS Play. I would have thought this would have been sorted out by now. Come on Synology please sort this out

Dmitriy Lyubchenko June 30, 2016

Unable to log in since update. Other apps work well though.

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear Dmitriy, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Afram Kirmiz July 13, 2016

Gives login/version error after latest update. Edit; ds photo was running on my nas but backups still weren't working. I stopped ds photo on my nas and restarted it and now backups are working again.

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear Afram, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Alexander Alferowich July 13, 2016

Please add upload on charge only mode and selecting folders to be backed up. Support email is useless.

Stuart Heath July 15, 2016

Unreliable Was great and backed up flawlessly. Phone (Sony Z3 compact) updated to Marshmallow and now backup works but not reliably.

Francis Nepomuceno July 1, 2016

Still missing multi-album slideshow It's common to group photos into folders, this is a much needed feature

Jim Engström July 3, 2016

EXIF killer Thos app feel so slow and when you upload images to Flickr it remove exif information like geo position.

Aeron Chang June 9, 2016

Works well but a setting to allow backup only when charging and on Wi-Fi will be great! Works well but why no setting to allow backup only when charging and on Wi-Fi?

Anthony Hanrahan June 16, 2016

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear Anthony, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Mattias Lundin July 5, 2016

A solid and nice application, just as the rest of the suit. Great support and user interface, but the basic option of "Copy" a photo is missing. Would be great to get this feature added.

Parm Dhesi June 30, 2016

Doesnt work with Android M Updated my LG G3 phone with latest version of DS photo and it will not let me log in from own network or remotely from my cell providers network. Lots of people getting this problem.

james wilshire June 13, 2016

Jim Problems with logging on

Synology Inc. June 29, 2016

Dear James, We sincerely apologized for any inconvenience caused by this login issue. We speculated the reason of this issue is that your Photo Station was automatically disabled during this DSM upgrade. Could you please go to Package Center and check whether Photo Station is disabled? If yes, please enable it and we believe it would work then.

Simos Kyriakides June 14, 2016

Good job synology I like it , it does what it says keep the good work

Lejo Thomas July 10, 2016

Not connecting Not connecting on LAN or data

Rizwan Chaudhry June 16, 2016

Love it but need feature to upload on WiFi only while charging

John Doe June 25, 2016

Better slideshow please Would be nice to be able to play a slideshow across albums

Caspar Wrede July 6, 2016

Slow and janky

Russell Dyson May 3, 2016

Quite good, but not very full featured and frustrating to use at times. Works, but poor implementation forces user to adapt to app quirks. Really needs a couple of things. 1. Pause uploads or delayed upload so my NAS doesn't turn on after every photo. 2. Better host folder selection / multiple folder selection. 3. Easier multiple users control, without needing Photo Station to grant additional permissions. 4. Destination folder selection other than 'photo' default. This has the capacity to be a brilliant app, so much promise!

Chang Hyun Jeong May 7, 2016

Download function on video is grayed out. Once my sync to my NAS uploads photos and videos from my phone, it deletes my photos and videos from my phone. (I intentionally had it setup like that to conserve spaces on my phone.) And whenever I want to access them, I can view them fine, but the problem is downloading the videos back to my phone. I am able to download the photos, but not the videos. The download function is grayed out. Why?? Sometimes I need to send some videos to my friends and family, but I can't.

What's New

．Fixed an issue where the app might quit unexpectedly during a file backup if the destination name contained special characters

．Fixed an issue where the app might quit unexpectedly when sharing photos from an external source to DS photo

．Minor bug fixes

Additional information

Updated

July 18, 2016

Size

23M

Installs

1,000,000 - 5,000,000

Current Version

3.10.1

Requires Android

4.1 and up

Content Rating

Everyone

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