Instant upload is the feature which was recently showed in a commercial during the Grammy awards telecast. The Google Plus commercial showed the life of a new dad, who clicks a lot of pics of his new born child, but loses the phone in a taxi one day.
While Instant Upload will be able to upload pictures from your Camera Roll to Google’s cloud storage servers – it will only work while the app is active (unlike iCloud, which works automatically at a set time and backs up your data automatically).
Instant Upload is only active while the Google+ iOS app is open, and for a brief period after you close it. Re-opening the Google+ app resumes your photo & video uploads exactly where they left off.
This update to the iOS app also brings with it the “What’s Hot” stream to the app and also adds functionality which allows a user to see who +1′d their post in the stream. Also with this update, users can now shake the device while the Google Plus app is open to send feedback.
Download the latest version of Google+ iOS app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google/id447119634?mt=8
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