How to stop albums from different devices merging during backup?
When backing up from mobile, Immich auto-creates/merges albums by name.
On multi-device setups this causes — every phone has a Camera or Screenshots album, and they all get merged together on the server.
Is there a way to map(like immich-cli, immich upload -A):
Phone A Camera → Immich/Camera (Phone A)
Phone B Camera → Immich/Camera (Phone B)
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.If you are using the same account, this is not possible for album upload
Thanks for the info! looks like it’s not possible right now if i am on the same account.
That said, it feels like it’d be super handy to have an advanced option in the mobile backup settings to map a phone album to a specific remote album. (like “Camera” on Phone A vs Phone B).
Since the CLI already supports this with
-A/--album-name, it’d be awesome to have something similar in the app too. Keeps things consistent and makes multi-device setups a lot cleaner.