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Photos tab previewing comments, and wishes to locate files using geolocation.
OneDrive has a feature where it syncs photos across Galaxy devices - so a photo taken on my phone, can be viewed in the Gallery app on my tablet - as well as on my computer or online.
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Hi @Megan
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.
I can access all my files using the Dropbox app - that side of things works fine - photos I take will upload into the Camera Uploads folders. The issue is that the experience looking through photos is not great in the app.
If I set all the photos to be available offline, it then takes up twice as much space because they are already stored on my phone in the Gallery folder (I have hundreds of gigs of photos).
Viewing photos is limited. If I go to an image and then swipe to go to the next one, I can't swipe in full screen mode (I normally hold the phone in landscape mode when looking at photos), I have touch the screen so it shows the info and options panels, then I can swipe - and then to view the next photo in full screen, I have to touch the screen again to make the info and options panels disappear. Feels very clunky (when compared to the Galaxy Gallery app).
There are many other little things - for example if I click on an image to view a bigger version, it takes a second or two (I have a Galaxy S22 Ultra, so fairly speedy) - to compare the Gallery is immediate. I can even go back and then reopen the same photo and it will still take a second - even though it should be pre-loaded???
Regarding location, for example I took some photos on a trip 6 months ago, and for me, searching by location on a map is more intuitive than trying to remember the date and sorting by that.
The thumbnail issue is not a deal breaker - I happened to be looking back at some photos that I hadn't looked at on the app before, and my network connection wasn't great, so the thumbnails wouldn't even load.
Double handling photos is another pain. I tend to sort photos out of my Camera Uploads folder into other folders. Then, because it is not synced with Gallery, I then have to separately delete them from there. It would be great if the Camera Uploads folder was a direct sync of the Gallery folder, so if I delete from one, it disappears from the other.
Please let me know if I can help further.
