Uploading should be easy enough to do with a drink in the other hand. Here is the whole flow, the usual obstacles – and what you as host can do to remove them up front.
The guest scans the QR code, the album opens in the browser and asks for a name. Then they pick photos from the camera roll and the upload starts. No account, no password, no app. The name is only used so you can see who shared what.
On iPhone the button opens the photo library, where several photos can be selected at once. HEIC files are converted automatically so everyone can view them. On Android the file picker opens, and you select multiple photos by holding down the first one. All of it happens in the browser – Safari, Chrome, Samsung Internet and Firefox all work.
Photos are compressed before sending, so uploads stay fast even on strained party wifi. Video clips are supported up to 500 MB per file. Many files can be selected at once; with large batches it helps to upload 20–30 photos per round so the upload is not interrupted by a phone locking its screen.
At venues with weak wifi it usually works best to ask guests to upload on mobile data. If an upload is interrupted, the system retries automatically with increasing delays. Guests can always return later that night or the next day and upload the rest – the code still works.
Add a line on the card reminding guests to enter a name. Put the gallery on a screen so guests see their own photos appear – it is the single most effective nudge to upload more. And send a reminder the day after, when most people finally scroll through the camera roll.
No. Guests only type a name. No email, no password. Only the host has an account.
Yes. Both photos and video clips work, and individual video files can be up to 500 MB. Videos play directly in the gallery.
Usually the network is congested, or the phone locked its screen mid-transfer. Keep the screen on, switch to mobile data, and try fewer files at a time.
A guest can ask the host to remove a photo, and the host can delete any photo in the album.