No gallery option on Facebook

[Gnarf003]

When I am responding in comments on Facebook there is no option to go to my gallery to upload a picture. I do have that option on my own page but not when responding to others.

 

[mustang7757]

Hi, welcome to AC!

You don't get a camera icon next to text field on the keyboard?

 

[Gnarf003]

I get the camera option but not the picture option that used to take me to my gallery

 

[mustang7757]

Hmm..try clear cache in face book and keyboard then force stop

 

[Gnarf003]

no that didn't work. I also rebooted. since I got there I noticed 2 other afacebook apps which maybe they have always been there but I never noticed them before they are Facebook app manager and Facebook app installer

 

[anon(19759)]

This is odd I just noticed. On public pages if I try to comment, there's no camera at all for adding a photo. On friend's pages, the camera is there to attach a photo. Maybe there's a setting for pages to restrict the ability to post photos?

 

[Gnarf003]

no I don't get the gallery icon when commenting. on friend or public. just yo clarify, I do get the camera option but that is to take a picture and upload it. the gallery icon takes me to my gallery to upload a picture from the gallery. sorry I may not be explaining this correctly

 

[mustang7757]

no that didn't work. I also rebooted. since I got there I noticed 2 other afacebook apps which maybe they have always been there but I never noticed them before they are Facebook app manager and Facebook app installer

Then try the clear data on both and force stop
Which keyboard Samsung?

 

[anon(19759)]

no I don't get the gallery icon when commenting. on friend or public. just yo clarify, I do get the camera option but that is to take a picture and upload it. the gallery icon takes me to my gallery to upload a picture from the gallery. sorry I may not be explaining this correctly

Weird, the camera icon for me brings up the option to take a photo, but also displays all my gallery photos.

 

[Gnarf003]

I've cleared all 3 Facebook app caches and forced a stop on each but still no luck.

 

[Javier P]

no I don't get the gallery icon when commenting. on friend or public. just yo clarify, I do get the camera option but that is to take a picture and upload it. the gallery icon takes me to my gallery to upload a picture from the gallery. sorry I may not be explaining this correctly

Welcome to the forums. Go to settings - apps - select Facebook - Permissions and make sure that Storage is allowed.

 

[Gnarf003]

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the app and that fixed it.

 

[Gnarf003]

thanks for all the help.

 

[Emig5m]

I wonder why use a separate app when you can just log on Facebook through a web browser? Any advantages? I feel like having too many apps installed leaves the door open to too many apps running in the background eating up battery, transferring data, more annoying notifications, etc. I feel like if you can consolidate 15 apps into your web browser then why eat up the space for a bunch of separate apps to do the same thing. (I've never once used the Facebook app, I just login through my web browser and all works normal like on my desktop, no need for a dedicated app that I can see?)

 

[mustang7757]

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the app and that fixed it.

Very good , next time try the clear data and force stop it , it resets the whole app .

 

[bhatech]

I wonder why use a separate app when you can just log on Facebook through a web browser? Any advantages? I feel like having too many apps installed leaves the door open to too many apps running in the background eating up battery, transferring data, more annoying notifications, etc. I feel like if you can consolidate 15 apps into your web browser then why eat up the space for a bunch of separate apps to do the same thing. (I've never once used the Facebook app, I just login through my web browser and all works normal like on my desktop, no need for a dedicated app that I can see?)

Don't personally use Facebook but in general doing it via app can provide a much better UI experience, optimization and features using the APIs provided by the mobile platform. I for one can't imagine using mobile optimized versions on browser since they aren't anywhere close the experience you can have with standalone apps. If that doesn't matter (looks like it doesn't) then sure use the browser.

And for battery, I have close to 200 apps on my phone for god knows how many years and never have battery issues. I also don't stress about battery and use the phone to fullest with all the features turned on. Very rarely I run into a phone that doesn't get me thru a full day.

 

[anon(19759)]

I wonder why use a separate app when you can just log on Facebook through a web browser? Any advantages? I feel like having too many apps installed leaves the door open to too many apps running in the background eating up battery, transferring data, more annoying notifications, etc. I feel like if you can consolidate 15 apps into your web browser then why eat up the space for a bunch of separate apps to do the same thing. (I've never once used the Facebook app, I just login through my web browser and all works normal like on my desktop, no need for a dedicated app that I can see?)

These phones are smart enough to notice when an app is crushing your battery and notify you of that situation.