Aura Frames Hack 4.8.42 + Redeem Codes

I bought a couple of different models that were cheaper and appeared to have some options that might be better but come to find out they were not. One I used didn’t have a simple way to invite others to upload and share photos easiest, another required a subscription to allow more a few gigs of space. The other only allowed you to upload 8 pictures at a time. All of these things were not issues. Biggest pros, easy to invite people to share photos right away, unlimited cloud storage with out an additional costs.
Biggest set backs are two things. It is not a touch screen and there are no additional slots for storage or uploading pictures.

The frame is easy to set up and I’m excited to give another as a gift.
I wish the app have the ability to add albums, where you could sort pictures into different albums, and choose which one you wanted to display. That way you could keep favorite photos on the frame and keep track of them but you wouldn’t necessarily need to have those in the rotation at all times. It would be extra cool if you could even set specific time frames for what albums you would like. For example- I want to see all of my family photos around Christmas time, so a winter album would be great if I could set that up to run from November to December. Or just albums for other custom things and I can control when to run them- but again, instead of having to make albums on my phone.
Another feature that I think could use some finessing is that it takes a lot of steps to download photos when someone else adds it to the frame- so finding a way to make that easier would be great!

Aura frames are excellent, but there is one major flaw: there should be an option to loop videos. There is an option to auto play videos, which is good, but there should also be an option to loop the video until the interval time advances to the next photo or video. Currently if say a 30 sec video, the longest allowed, comes up, it will play only once and then show the first frame of the video for the remainder of the time. So if the time interval is set for say 1 hour, the video will play for 30 sec then show the title frame for the next 59 mins and 30 sec. I have uploaded video slideshows of photos, so the desired operation should be for the video to continue looping the entire interval. Ideally each video would have a setting to enable or disable looping, since it may depend on the video as to whether looping is desired or not. Hopefully a software update will enable this video looping feature in the near future.

Some photos, particularly photos taken vertically, get resized and the app tends to take the bottom 80% of the photo which tends to chop everyone’s heads off at the top. If it has to be a simple program, I would say taking the top 80% would be better. Luckily, as the frame admin, I can resize any photos uploaded from anyone, but we have 20+ people uploading photos for my grandma and it can be time consuming to keep up with it. Only other complaint is that it would be nice to be able to send one invite link to everyone you’re inviting, instead of individual links for each person. Inviting 20+ people individually was kind of a pain. Other than these issues, the app is fairly easy to use and my grandmother is LOVING being able to keep up with all the family that’s scattered worldwide!

Overall, I like the frame and app. My son and daughter also have frames. My biggest complaint is the “random” order of photos. It seems to assume that if you upload a lot of photos at once, they are less important than when you only upload one or two photos. So, certain photos repeatedly display. That simply doesn’t apply to me. I am scanning and uploading photos from 50 years and even older, so an upload may have photos from various years and subjects. Please add an option for full random! We should also be allowed to tag photos such as travel, certain family members, etc. — this would allow display for a purpose for event.
I have an older frame from a different vendor that doesn’t require WiFi and allows upload directly from a computer - that functionality has value that the Aura frame doesn’t have.

For the high price point the app doesn’t meet my expectations. No way to organise photos and when auto shuffling the frame displays portrait photos together that don’t compliment each other. I cannot go on the app and rearrange the photos so they display in an aesthetic manner. I believe it is also supposed to sense duplicates but it doesn’t and it actually displays duplicate photos together. There is a button in the app where you are supposed to be able to select a photo and it should display and that completely does not work. I also have uploaded over 200 photos and it still shows just the same few photos over and over. While the pictures look okay on the actual display, the lack of features is disappointing and not acceptable for how expensive it is. This product is not intuitive and also lacks any option for the user to be creative with how things are displayed.

Longtime gifter and owner of Aura Frame. I’ve been so disappointed in the last few App updates. I was hoping this most recent update would resolve the issues. Nope.

The App just constantly freezes up. I can barely add any photos before it freezes, forget about scrolling through photos to add and to view existing photos in the App because it will surely stop scrolling. I’m constantly having to force quit the app. And yes this happens when Im not running any other Apps in the background. I’ve rebooted my phone several times now. I’m running iOS 16.1 currently but this was occurring even before this latest update.

Also, the App use to show what photos from the camera roll already exist in the frame indicated by a checkmark which is super handy. That feature is no longer there either. So frustrating! I absolutely love the Aura Frame but these issues need to be resolved for continued enjoyment.

I love the Frame. It works beautifully. But I’ve had no end of difficulty with the Frame Control in the app going blank & stopping. I can add photos and so can those who have access to my frame. I can also select a photo to “show now” when I want. But out of the blue, the Frame Control stops working. That means I can’t adjust the length time photos stay up on the frame, go to a previous photo, or see what is currently on the frame. I’ve logged out of the app and back in multiple times. I’ve also completely deleted the app then reloaded it. But it doesn’t make a difference. It will be working one day, then just stop for no apparent reason. I’ve contacted customer service about it a couple times and they don’t seem to have a clue. It’s frustrating.

This frame turned out to be the perfect holiday gift for my elderly parents. Remote set-up was relatively easy, and my parents love it. I wish it had these features: 1) would let you put added photos into albums or categories and let you choose to show only certain albums at certain times. It’d be fun, for example, for my parents’ anniversary, to only show pics of them together that day or on a kid’s birthday let you only show that kid’s photos that day; 2) would let you rearrange the order of the shuffle; 3) would do better at auto-positioning photos to fit in the frame. You have to do a fair amount of going into each photo to pinch it/reposition it to display photos properly without people’s heads cut off.

But overall, intuitive and easy to use app and good frame.

I have been helping my in-laws set this up as they got this for a gift. I set it up on their iPad. It was disappointing that there is not an iPad version of the app only an iPhone sized one. I added photos from the iPad. If it is in landscape mode it will crop the portrait photos and vice versa. It would be nice to have the option to display the full photo without having it cropped.

I sent out invites to share photos to all the kids and grandkids emails through the app. No one received any emails. I thought it may be delayed due to Christmas Day volume. After digging on their website, it turns out that you must have the app to share photos. Fine but how is anyone supposed to know that? It would be nice if they would send out an email inviting you to download the app and join.

The motion sensor on the frame is inconsistent at best to swipe the photos.