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Lack of organisation has affected other areas of software too. An example is the gallery in Ios. It used to have an album called "camera roll" which would conta

Lack of organisation has affected other areas of software too. An example is the gallery in Ios. It used to have an album called "camera roll" which would contain all the photos and videos taken by you. Now that is gone. You have absolutely no way to restrict your view to items that you captured. Instead it is a big jumble of random crap from whatsapp groups and screenshots and your captures all in one feed called "recents".

null_object 5y ago
> An example is the gallery in Ios. It used to have an album called "camera roll" which would contain all the photos and videos taken by you. Now that is gone. You have absolutely no way to restrict your view to items that you captured. This is incorrect. If you open ‘All photos’ and click on the 3-dot menu indicator, you can choose ‘Your Photos Only’ as a base selection for your filter. As an aside, I find it incredibly annoying when people rant that “x is not possible in y software” when in reality they simply haven’t explored the application sufficiently carefully (and it’s not just about discoverability - this menu item is one level deep).
- perryizgr8 5y ago
  But this was something that was accessible by default, without going into any menus. And I would argue this is the most important function of the gallery app in any phone. Removing it and burying it is 100% an example of disappearance of organisation form software.
wruza 5y ago
I believe that you have whatsapp autosave turned on by some default. You may visit whatsapp > settings > chats and turn it off there. I don’t know who thought that it is a good idea, but yes it’s really annoying. Otherwise, ios gallery is what you made or saved in there. tl;dr blame whatsapp
- perryizgr8 5y ago
  I want whatsapp media to show in the gallery. What has that to do with the ability to organize my camera roll?

null_object 5y ago

> An example is the gallery in Ios. It used to have an album called "camera roll" which would contain all the photos and videos taken by you. Now that is gone. You have absolutely no way to restrict your view to items that you captured. This is incorrect. If you open ‘All photos’ and click on the 3-dot menu indicator, you can choose ‘Your Photos Only’ as a base selection for your filter. As an aside, I find it incredibly annoying when people rant that “x is not possible in y software” when in reality they simply haven’t explored the application sufficiently carefully (and it’s not just about discoverability - this menu item is one level deep).

perryizgr8 5y ago
But this was something that was accessible by default, without going into any menus. And I would argue this is the most important function of the gallery app in any phone. Removing it and burying it is 100% an example of disappearance of organisation form software.

wruza 5y ago

I believe that you have whatsapp autosave turned on by some default. You may visit whatsapp > settings > chats and turn it off there. I don’t know who thought that it is a good idea, but yes it’s really annoying. Otherwise, ios gallery is what you made or saved in there. tl;dr blame whatsapp

perryizgr8 5y ago
I want whatsapp media to show in the gallery. What has that to do with the ability to organize my camera roll?