The Immich team has finally released Immich 3.0 after months of hard work, bringing goodies like non-destructive mobile photo editing, automated Workflows, background backup improvements, and a brand-new custom web video player.
The mobile non-destructive photo editing feature allows you to crop and rotate your images directly on your phone without modifying the original source file. Because developers revamped the mobile editor, you now get the same set of features you"d find on the web app. Any changes you make to a photo on your mobile device sync directly with the web client.
Next up, we have Workflows, a feature that automates library actions using drag-and-drop mechanics across two modes: visual and JSON. A typical workflow consists of a trigger and steps, which include filters to check conditions and actions to execute tasks like tagging. Once you update Immich to version 3.0, you can find Workflows under Utilities in the sidebar of your Immich instance on the web.
Still on the web, there"s a new custom video player that provides uniform controls across browsers, solving iOS layout issues. The team said that on Android, background backup is much more reliable because a new scheduler uploads your entire library in the background instead of backing up newly taken pictures like in the past. To speed things up, the background refresh task on iOS now runs in parallel.
As for the bug fixes, there are a lot of them, but here are some that we think you"d find interesting:
- EXIF orientation now applies correctly to Android raw photos.
- Developers fixed map timeline layout crashes on mobile.
- Cronet buffer overflow issues on compressed thumbnails are gone.
- Album selection no longer causes endless spinners on empty devices.
- Missing microservices workers now trigger clear warnings.
- The server validates duplicate group ownership before dismissal.
- Secure folders re-lock immediately upon app backgrounding.
- Memories refresh automatically on app resume.
- Web builds are now completely deterministic.
- Transcoding settings lock to prevent misconfigurations.
Immich, for those who don"t know, is a free and open-source photo backup application that Alex Tran launched in February 2022 to counter Google"s restrictive 2021 storage policies. You can install the mobile companion apps on Android and iOS devices for daily backups, while running the backend server on standard Docker instances, Synology NAS hardware, or even a Raspberry Pi.
You can read the changelog for version 3.0 here.