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Take and mark up photos

Written by the Jobivo team · Updated 3 min readMobile only
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Take photos on a job, draw on them before they save, and find them again with where they were taken.

What job photos are for

Photos taken in Jobivo are saved to the job, not to your phone's camera roll. Everyone on the job sees them, and they stay with the job as the record of the work.

A photo can belong to one task, such as the finished pipework on “Fit new radiator”, or to the job as a whole. Before a photo saves you can draw on it to point something out.

If you allow it, each photo also keeps the place it was taken, and the job shows those places on a map.

Where to start

Open the job and tap Files in the tabs across the top. Tap Take photos at the bottom of the screen. The camera opens.

To put photos on one task instead, stay on Job Sheet, tap the task, and tap Add photos under Photos. Then choose Take photos.

A job open on its Files tab, showing the Files and Gallery sections, with Take photos in the bottom bar

Take the photos

Tap the round shutter button to take a photo. The camera stays open, so keep going until you have what you need. Done counts the shots as you take them.

The first time, the camera asks Use your location? Tap Allow so photos show where they were taken on the job's map, or Not now to leave it off.

The Jobivo camera on Android, with the Use your location? card showing Not now and Allow
The Jobivo camera on Android after three shots, with a thumbnail at the bottom left and the Done button reading Done · 3
The location question, and Done counting three shots.

Tap Done when you have finished. Closing the camera another way asks whether to discard the shots.

Draw on a photo before it saves

After the camera or the library, the photos open for review. The row of small pictures shows which one you are on, such as 1 of 3. Tap another to move to it.

Draw on the photo with your finger. The tools at the bottom are a red pen, a yellow marker and an eraser. Undo and Redo are at the top. To drop a photo from the batch, tap the bin beside the count.

The photo review screen on Android on photo 1 of 3, with a red circle drawn on the photo and the pen, marker and eraser tools at the bottom

Tap the tick at the top right to save. A message confirms how many photos were added. Tap the cross instead to discard them all.

Find the photos on the job

Saved photos are on the job's Files tab under Gallery. Photos taken on a task are grouped under that task's name. Photos added to the job itself are under Additional photos.

Tap a photo to open it full screen. Swipe to move through the rest. The line under the photo says who took it and when.

The Gallery section of a job's Files tab with 7 photos grouped under two task names and an Additional photos group

See where photos were taken

Below the gallery, Photo locations is a map with a pin for each photo that has a location. Tap a pin to open that photo.

The map is shown to people who see the whole company's work, and only once at least one photo on the job has a location.

Share a photo or save it to your phone

Open the photo. Tap Share at the bottom left to send it by message or email. Tap the three dots at the bottom right and Save to Photos to keep a copy in your phone's photo library.

For a photo taken on a task, the same menu has Show on the task, which takes you to the task the photo belongs to. It also has Delete photo if you are allowed to remove it.

A job photo open full screen with the three-dot menu showing Delete photo, Save to Photos and Share

If saving fails, allow Jobivo to add photos in your phone's Settings, under Jobivo and then Photos, and try again.

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