Portrait photos create their own albums, PER photo!

[idiotekniques]

I have just tried 3 of the top Android Gallery apps and they all reflect the same behaviour. Take a portrait mode photo with the pixel 2 xl camera and it gives you two photos. Fine with me. Problem is it then creates a new mini album for them. SO SO Annoying!

Only app that doesn't see this new album for just the two photos is Google Photos, but I don't want to use Google Photos as my primary gallery app!

Anybody find a workaround?

 

[svenEDGE]

Just out of sheer curiosity, why not use Google Photos?

 

[idiotekniques]

I may have to since I plan to use portrait photos quite often. It's nice, I just don't like the layout and feel as much as other apps like FOTO gallery app.

 

[e30ernest]

It doesn't really make new albums, but rather groups the 2 photos in their own folders inside the device. This makes sense, because having pairs of the same picture can get confusing to look at when you've got tons of them. However it is also annoying at the same time if you want to curate images outside of Google Photos since you have to sift through and look inside folders just to check an image.

Other apps may be seeing these other folders as "albums" and that compounds things a bit.

 

[idiotekniques]

It doesn't really make new albums, but rather groups the 2 photos in their own folders inside the device. This makes sense, because having pairs of the same picture can get confusing to look at when you've got tons of them. However it is also annoying at the same time if you want to curate images outside of Google Photos since you have to sift through and look inside folders just to check an image.

Other apps may be seeing these other folders as "albums" and that compounds things a bit.

Folders is the correct nomenclature I meant to use.

Anywyays giving Google Photos a shot as my main gallery app and take it from there.

 

[PowrDroid]

Folders is the correct nomenclature I meant to use.

Anywyays giving Google Photos a shot as my main gallery app and take it from there.

I used QuickPics for years but when I got my 2 XL I decided to go with Google Photos. The search function alone is worth it. For example, I took a photo of a piece of siding that had come loose from the side of my house at the end of summer. I figured it was in August or September and my usual method of finding these photos is to scroll to the approximate date in my gallery and start looking at thumbnails until I found it. With Google photos I just type (or ask) "siding", and Boom! up pops the photos I want.

It's kind of fun to play around with Photos and the search function. "Birthday cake", or "baseball game", or "waterfall" will immediately pull up pictures with those images in them. You can put names to faces and really make for powerful searches. "Olivia and Mom with puppy" Boom! there's your pic.

I adapted quickly to Photos and now can't imagine using anything else.

 

[sixty_four]

I used QuickPics for years but when I got my 2 XL I decided to go with Google Photos. The search function alone is worth it. For example, I took a photo of a piece of siding that had come loose from the side of my house at the end of summer. I figured it was in August or September and my usual method of finding these photos is to scroll to the approximate date in my gallery and start looking at thumbnails until I found it. With Google photos I just type (or ask) "siding", and Boom! up pops the photos I want.

It's kind of fun to play around with Photos and the search function. "Birthday cake", or "baseball game", or "waterfall" will immediately pull up pictures with those images in them. You can put names to faces and really make for powerful searches. "Olivia and Mom with puppy" Boom! there's your pic.

I adapted quickly to Photos and now can't imagine using anything else.

I agree with the search feature. It works amazingly well. Don't forget about the really handy access to Google Lens from Photos on the Pixel as well. Another handy feature.

I used QuickPic up until it was turned over to Cheetah Mobile. I saved the pre-Cheetah APK, re-signed it and used that ... until it stopped working properly on Nougat. But yeah, not interested in anything published by Cheetah Mobile.

 

[idiotekniques]

In Google Photos how do you get rid of pics from showing up without deleting them? Like naked shots of my gf. I archive them but they still show up. Also, tagging people's faces is not exactly working, I'm doing something wrong. Any help?

 

[idiotekniques]

Like in selfies it did a good job of categorizing them but a private picture is the thumbnail for the selfies category now and won't go away. i hid it in a photo vault type app but it's still showing up. maybe i'll try a restart

 

[idiotekniques]

NM It took google photos like 4 hours to process but I got my faces and people all sorted out, so now I can tag folks. Pretty cool Google Photos is. It's not perfect but neither were the other gallery apps I had. Now if one could only get Google to give this app a dark theme. Hmmmm...Google sucks with customizing appearances of most apps.

 

[sixty_four]

Like naked shots of my gf. I archive them but they still show up.

Man, I hope you're kidding! After #fapgate , I'd be really paranoid about using a cloud-connected phone to take...erm...overly-personal photos. For example, when I take naked pics of your gf, I use an old school non-Wifi digital cam. j/k.

 

[idiotekniques]

Man, I hope you're kidding! After #fapgate , I'd be really paranoid about using a cloud-connected phone to take...erm...overly-personal photos. For example, when I take naked pics of your gf, I use an old school non-Wifi digital cam. j/k.

lol I wasn't. I was overseas twice this year and I received a small amount of attractive photos while there. I deleted them when google photos found them this time around and locked them into a vault on my phone with a gallery vault app I found that seems good.

 

[anon(5630457)]

Man, I hope you're kidding! After #fapgate , I'd be really paranoid about using a cloud-connected phone to take...erm...overly-personal photos. For example, when I take naked pics of your gf, I use an old school non-Wifi digital cam. j/k.

They only go after celebrities, manly.

 

[e30ernest]

I guess the same method I use to hide music artwork could work....

Open a file manager and create a folder starting with a "." (dot). For example, create something like /.fap/ and move all of your "personal" pics there. That would effectively put them all in a hidden folder that Photos will not read. You can open these images at will using a file manager. It won't backup to the cloud, and you won't see it on the Photos app.

 

[sixty_four]

They only go after celebrities, manly.

...or breaches of celeb accounts are the only ones that make the news.