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I wish Google cared more about the experience of photographers in Android. There's no way to pick images from Google Photos, so if you want to post 4 images tak
by simonsarris 6y ago
I wish Google cared more about the experience of photographers in Android. There's no way to pick images from Google Photos, so if you want to post 4 images taken at different times to Twitter or Instagram and you didn't take them just today, you have to first find them, then put them in a temp album (or else find them again later), then delete them from your phone, (here's where you re-find them if you didn't put them in an album first!) then re-download them. Then you can select them from the device folder "Recovered". Why is choosing images so bare-metal? Or why can't we have a virtual folder called Quick Collection or something, like there is in Lightroom?
I have of other gripes as a photographer but they're mostly about Google Photos and not Android itself.
- tssva 6y agoI feel like I must be missing something regarding what you are trying to do because Google Photos does allow you to select multiple photos taken at different times and share them together to Twitter or Instagram.
- pas 6y agoProbably OP complains about the basic "file picker". So if they visit twitter.com and start the UX flow from there and somehow they end up in Google Photos instead of some more useful Media viewer.
- simonsarris 6y agoOh wow, you're right re: Twitter. You still can't to Instagram feed, though (but you can to Instagram stories, and you can to feed when only selecting one image). So to make a gallery post, you have to do it from within Instagram, which uses device folders.
- poisonborz 6y agoMaybe use one of the miriads of available alternate gallery apps?
- mbo 6y agoI'm not entirely sure that I'm following, because my upload flow from Google Photos puts me into the "Select photos" mode where I can tap multiple photos to select them. I'm assuming that you're been sent to a photo picker screen and can only choose one at a time. Have you tried holding a tap to enter multi-select mode?