Phone is Moto G Stylus with Android 13. Whenever I launch the built in photos app, it now gives me a nag screen to download a version upgrade. When I click “upgrade”, nothing happens. It’s conceivable that I have network permission disabled for the app. I better check.

  1. Is this a familiar thing? How do I make it stop, either by installing the upgrade or by shutting off the nag screen?

  2. Is there a FOSS photo viewer that anyone recommends instead, that I can install from F-droid? I’m reasonably satisfied with the UI of the Google one. It allows sharing photos, moving them into subfolders, seeing the metadata, and some minor editing, all of which are useful. I don’t care in the slightest about cloud sync or google drive so it’s ok if the replacement app doesn’t have those.

Thanks!

  • @solrizeOPEnglish
    2•10 months ago

    Thanks! I just installed fossify gallery and it looks good so far. Is there a way to manually organize the folders on the screen? Basically I want to get the camera folder shown at the top. The other folders don’t matter as much. This seems like a nice app that will take some getting used to.

    Added: hmm, I hoped it could show some thumbnails for each folder like Google photos does.

    • @CrayonRosaryEnglish
      3•10 months ago

      Yes, you can “pin” a folder. Long press a folder then check the 3-dot menu.

      Sadly, I don’t know of a way to show multiple thumbnails for a folder.

      I did recently discover the icon in the search bar that looks like a stack of image. It makes it show all photos by date, regardless of folder. Very handy. When combined with changing the column count in the menu (Or doing a pinch-to-zoom out, which can be a little laggy) you can see a ton of recent photos as once.

      • @solrizeOPEnglish
        2•10 months ago

        Thanks! Pinning the camera folder worked.

    • L3ft_F13ld!English
      2•10 months ago

      You can sort folders from settings. It’s also possible to pin the camera folder so it’s always first.