[Feature] Select all albuns on album selection

[JoseFilipeFerreira]

I have searched the existing feature requests to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

Having the option of selecting all albums for backup on the selection screen would streamline adding new albums for users with too many albums such as myself.
This would ignore adding albums previous selected as "do not import".

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[lesett]

Yeah this would be especially awesome for sharing all your albums to family members more efficently!

[davidSGE]

This definetly has to be added. I got 602 albums in my iCloud library...
Also there should be:

• a checkmark to automatically include new albums created in future
• an sorting button to sort the albums alphabetically. Right now it's impossible to find the album I'm looking for. In other apps it is similar, I guess iOS is returning the albums in a weird order. But thats why there has to be a sorting button

[maslanypotwor]

Bumping this as I would love to have this feature. Currently selecting all albums on my mobile and when adding new user (and they have like 150 albums in their iCloud) is a huuuuge pain. And it could be solved by a single "select all" button.

What would be awesome is if it could always take also newly created albums after the "select all" button was clicked and ignore one only after user explicitly selected to not backup particular one.

[masx200]

#15636

[Ben-Diehlci]

Bumping this, this should definitely be a feature. The ability to just have a checkbox that says “Backup All Future and Current Photo and Videos”.

[NicholasFlamy]

While the Recents album exists, currently it's useless if you want to sync your albums. Also, having this option includes all future albums is also needed.

[NicholasFlamy]

Related to #18607

[NicholasFlamy]

The feature mentioned in the original post has been implemented in the timeline beta in v1.136.0 and up.

There is a lot of interest in having this include newly created albums as well so I created #20568.

[NicholasFlamy]

Apparently this is still not available on iOS according to this comment: #20568 (reply in thread)

[danb35]

Another vote for this (on iOS, specifically). What's the point of the "exclude album" setting without it?

If you can "select all" or "back up all albums," then being able to exclude specific albums make sense; it's then "back up all albums except those specifically excluded." But if you have to individually select each album to back up/sync, the "exclude" marker seems entirely superfluous.