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Attachments - Image Upload Failure / Retrying / Caching & Multiple Image Uploads On iOS

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Nathan_Mock
5 - Automation Enthusiast
5 - Automation Enthusiast

I am a regular use of the AirTable iOS app, but have two requests / issues that I encounter on a daily basis.

I usually attach some attachments (images for the most part) to my records and about 50-60% of the time, the attachments fail to upload to the record (ie. due to some issues with AirTable server, mobile network connectivity, etc.โ€“actually unknown as there are no logs, just silently fails from an user perspective). It would be awesome if the iOS app had some local caching / management and syncing functionality built into the attachments feature so my uploads donโ€™t get lost on โ€œfailureโ€. Since there is no notification that the upload has failed and they are just dropped, I donโ€™t usually notice that my attachments are missing until I review the record several days later and then I have to track down and mentally re-associate attachments with the record. To the iOS devs: a simple temporary fix would be to add some type of retry logic in the failure callback of the upload call.

Another issue I am having related to images is I will usually attach multiple images to a record. It would be awesome if I could select multiple images in the gallery. Otherwise, I have to upload images one by one, and if the image is โ€œfar downโ€ the image gallery, I have to scroll all the way back down and find out which image I need to upload.

Anybody else having these issues with attachments and/or have a solution/workaround for the time being?