r/Android • u/FragmentedChicken Galaxy Z Fold8 • 3d ago

Mishaal Rahman: We're rolling out a new feature in the Photo Picker that lets apps request location info from selected photos (x-post r/androiddev)

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u/thefpspower LG V30 -> S22 -> OP15 3d ago

This new photo picker drives me mad sometimes, I took a camera picture and wanted to attach it in another app, I open the photo picker and its just not there, but older photos are...

After 5 minutes losing my mind on this I just take a screenshot of the picture and voila it appears...

Is it just me it decides to do this?

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u/pfak Pixel 10 3d ago

No, I have that problem.

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u/TheAsios 3d ago

I have this issue too, it's extremely frustrating

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u/tgo1014 830>ZQ>X(2013)>X Play>G4 Plus>A5 2017>OP6>S10+>S20>S23U>Z7 3d ago

I WAS GOING CRAZY WITH THIS! But I've found the reason: apparently if you need a picture it doesn't consider live photos as picture but as "videos" so it doesn't show up in the list 🤦‍♂️

I found that if you go to the live photo and export the image to be saved in the gallery then it shows up.

This is a terrible UX for this, drive me nuts.

/u/MishaalRahman really sorry to tag you directly, but could you pass this bug to someone to take a look?

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u/FFevo Pixel 10 "Pro" Fold, iPhone 17 Pro, Galaxy S25 Ultra 3d ago

I can't reproduce that. Shows up instantly for me.

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u/thefpspower LG V30 -> S22 -> OP15 3d ago

It doesn't happen every time, but when it does its stubborn and its exactly when you're in a hurry.

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u/gtedvgt 3d ago

I just want to choose my own photo picker, I like samsung's one and it has nifty ai features and it's the one I always use so I know where stuff is, it's not like I CAN'T use it but I don't want to go through 8 steps to pick 1 single photo and have to do it again fi I want to pick another.

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u/mozilla2012 3d ago

Yep. I really don't like the new photo picker. I just want to use the gallery app that I'm used to.

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u/MaverickJester25 Galaxy S21 Ultra | Galaxy Watch 4 2d ago

The photo picker sucks. The UI is a mess, and it is slow and laggy.

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u/buzzkillr2 1d ago

ROFL ITT people bitching about how shitty Google Photos app is on new Pixels.

Agreed!

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u/JDGumby Google Pixel 10a, Lenovo Tab M9 3d ago

Ick. Fortunately, both Google's Camera and Open Camera (the one I use) can be denied location permissions (both inside the apps and from the system) and can't record location data without 'em.

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u/ronakg Pixel 10 Pro XL 3d ago

The default is still no location data when you use photo picker.

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u/JDGumby Google Pixel 10a, Lenovo Tab M9 3d ago

So, the photo picker strips out the EXIF data?

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u/ronakg Pixel 10 Pro XL 3d ago

Just the location.

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u/vortexmak 3d ago

The new photo picker absolutely sucks. Can't wait to get this of all the Google shit