Life in LoFi: iPhoneography | iPhone Photo News, Showcases, App Reviews

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The official Flickr app from Yahoo was updated recently. The new 1.3 update has a bunch of new features and improvements. It’s got some cool tweaks for viewing and sharing images on Flickr. However, one of those “improvements” is a new photo picker, which unfortunately severely limits the photos you can upload from your iPhone.

The new 1.3 update of Flickr only allows you to browse and upload from your Camera Roll in a cumbersome process. There is no more access to the rest of your photo library. And maneuvering through your Camera Roll can now only be done in 40 image increments.

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There are several iPhone apps to upload to, view and manage your Flickr account. The one that I use is Flickit. It’s easy to use, versatile, fast and there’s a free version.

Both of the 2.1.0 versions of the Flickit apps contain a bug. When set to either “Large” or “Medium” in the upload settings, they upload photos to Flickr at full resolution (up to the largest resolution the app will permit).

Read on for our workaround….

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