iPhone guy wondering how you guys manage your gallery! - Divisions by zero
Bit of back story, I started with Android (2010-2014) but have used iPhone
since. I have an Android phone (Galaxy S10) I use for some things. My wife is an
Android user since 2010 but is not very technical. Right to my question: how do
you manage your images/gallery on Android? I know that the Android OS defaults
to sorting by folder. I used to use QuickPic; my current gallery of choice is
Google Gallery, for its simplicity (and being free). So you have your camera
pics, your saved images, images from various apps tend to be in folders for
those apps. Is that organisation good enough for you? Or do you do more? Jumping
over to the Apple side, every image, saved or taken with the camera, goes into
the “Camera Roll” gallery. It’s all one monolithic thing. You can create albums
within it, but unless you did that from the start, it’s a monolithic task.
Fortunately I found an app that makes it easy. It shows me an image, I tap the
album I want to put it in. After a few hours, I had it sorted. Now I have a
wallpaper album, an album of pictures of my wife, an album for holidays, an
album for friends, one for cars, one for food… and so on. Every week or so I go
back to this app to get the unsorted ones. Yesterday I was looking at my wife’s
phone, and something bothered me. It occurred to me that, she’s had this phone
for 3 years and has never changed the lock screen. She said she tried to do it
once and couldn’t figure it out, so she left it alone. (It’s a Galaxy S22, if
you’re curious.) I had a minute, so I dived in. Found it pretty quick. Asked her
what she wanted. She said there was a wallpaper from this anime I sent her once…
This is when I found an issue with Android’s image organisation. It was hard to
navigate and completely unsorted. (Likely, partially user error, which is why
I’m asking here!) I solved the problem by going to my iPhone, going into my
wallpaper album, finding the wallpaper in question, sending it over to her, and
then picking it as the most recent image. I got the clock set up with her
favourite colour, and now she’s super happy with her lock screen. It’s no longer
“just there,” now it reflects its owner better. Win/win. (Of course, if you
looked at my S10, you’d never know it was managed by an “Apple guy.” Nova Prime,
everything customised to specification… honestly still an awesome phone, and
does a few things better than my five-years-newer 16 Pro Max.) So, TL;DR: are
you happy with the folder-based (source-based) gallery system in Android? If so,
how do you make it work for you? How can a user with something like 2500 saved
images best make it work for them?
schipelblorp
Wistful
boredsquirrel (he)
CerebralHawks
Meldrik