HOW TO: Upload iPhone Photos to Google+

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Who says
Android phone users get to have all the fun uploading photos to
Google+? You can do that with an
iPhone, too, using any app that can send pics to
Google‘s image organizer,
Picasa.

For this how-to sent to us by Paul Molluzzo of
Alpha Dad, let’s use an ad-supported app called
Piconhand, available free on the App Store.

Once you have the app downloaded and installed, follow Paul’s quick tutorial (with some of my own tips inserted):

How to Upload iPhone Pics to Google+

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   Sign in with your Google credentials. You’ll see a list of your existing albums.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   


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   Be sure you have location services turned on.

   
   

   
   

   Find Location Services by tapping the Settings icon, then Location Services, and then scroll down to find Piconhand.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   


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   Create a new ?Mobile? album.

   
   

   
   

   Or name it whatever you wish, perhaps a Circle name you’d like to give access to. This gives you control of who gets to see these pics in Google+.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   


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   Select ?Upload,” pick a Picasa album, but nothing happens until you tap “Start”

   
   

   
   

   Choose a pic from your library or take a new one. The app lets you edit pics if you choose that in Preferences.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   


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   You’ll see a progress bar when the pics are uploading.

   
   

   
   

   After they’re uploaded, go to Google+ and adjust the visibility of the album where you uploaded those photos, assigning that folder to the various circles you’d like to allow to see those pics.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
   
   

This is a quick and easy way to send photos to Google+, and will suffice until
Apple finally approves a Google+ app for iOS. But we won’t be holding our breath waiting for that.

Readers, have you discovered other iPhone Picasa uploaders or methods that you’d recommend?

HOW TO: Upload iPhone Photos to Google+