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Gallery albums not showing on apps

Members_gOo22H4 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:57:19 GMT

I have say 12 albums in my Gallery but when I go to several apps including the Wearable app and Facebook and I try to select a photo it only sees 3 of my albums. It's the same when I go into sync that it only sees the same 3 albums. Please can anyone help?

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Bonius — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:10:49 GMT

The same issue. Does anybody solved this yet?

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river2023 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:14:31 GMT

Mine is the same and no editing

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NaiNai1202 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:13:55 GMT

Same issue here. Any fixes yet?

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zkhan96 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 08:12:05 GMT

Same issue. I think it's because the Samsung gallery, even if you create a new album, still insists on storing the pictures in the DCIM folder. Something that android sees as a singular folder. This integration is seriously flawed and hasn't been fixed in years

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Lovattp — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 22:20:45 GMT

Same problem on Moonpig currently

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Mike70005 — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:52:23 GMT

I had this problem. Here's how I solved it.

Go to file manager, click on images. The missing album(s) should show there. Give the missing album(s) a new name. They should now appear in gallery.

I have no idea why this happened. Suspect it was a screw up in an update.

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Members_uA9E1pd — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:35:55 GMT

How do you change the name of the albums? I clicked everywhere and do not have any option to change them. It seems I can only Edit to select items.

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Mike70005 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 14:46:30 GMT

Go to File Manager

Click on "Images"

Select the Folder you wish to rename.

At bottom of screen click "Rename"

Type new name.

Enter

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Members_UWQ7dT4 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:39:03 GMT

It's been more than a year since you posted this, and perhaps you solved it. But perhaps also not, as I think I had exactly the same issue. I've been looking for a solution for months, searched the Internet for many hours and spent a lot of the time with the always very friendly, but not very helpful Samsung support staff (sorry).

I was experiencing the following. In apps such as Outlook, AirBnB, Evernote and a few more, I would only see the albums camera, screenshots and downloads, when I wanted to attach or use a picture. So, not all albums I had were visible in the so-called Media Picker (in album view). Only with many additional clicks was I able to get to the Gallery app, which worked as a sort of (inefficient) work around. Not very helpful at all when you have organised everything neatly in folders. Especially not if you are not looking for the most recent picture, and you have hundreds or even thousands.

The solution consists of a few steps, which could vary depending on how you use your phone. Sounds simple, well in fact it's pretty crazy in my opinion.

1. First of all, you must have Google Photo's installed. Perhaps you thought, just like me, the Samsung Gallery app works fine, let's get rid of all this garbage on my phone. Nope, it must be installed.

2. You must enable Google Drive back-up in the settings of the Google Photo's app. Hey, wasn't there this great integration with OneDrive? Well yes, but this must be turned on nevertheless.

3. Then you must move the albums that you were missing or didn't see in your apps. Go to a file explorer application and move the desired albums from the folder DCIM to the folder pictures. Yes, you heard that right. Don't worry however, the album will still be visible afterwards in your Samsung Gallery app (should you still want to use it after this).

4. Now, as a final step, head back to the Google Photo's app, and search for the option where you can select which folders to back-up to Google Drive. Select the folders you need to see in the Media Picker when using apps such as Outlook and possibly many others.

5. Now, go back to the app you had the problems with and you will see the folders you didn't see before, when trying to attach or use a picture in that application. One way to check the correct setting (beforehand) is to view the section "On this device" in the Google Photo's app. If the album (created in the Samsung Gallery app) isn't there, it won't be visible in several or many other apps. If the album you need to see is not there, check the execution of steps 1-4.

Albums created directly in the Google Photo's app do not have to be backed up to Google Drive to be visible in the Media Picker. However, you also won't see them in the Samsung Gallery app. So, make your choice how you want to work.

Good luck.

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etang94 — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:18:14 GMT

This works. To shorten it for everyone: When you create new album in Samsung Gallery, it creates new folders in "DCIM" Folder. Whereas to be detected by 3rd party apps, the folder should be in "Pictures" folder instead of "DCIM".

Hence the solution is to open "My Files" app, search for your album in "DCIM" folder and move it to "Pictures" folder.

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AmjadBl3awy — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:14:44 GMT

This worked for me, thank you!

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dhimas — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:13:01 GMT

tysm, your steps work perfectly fine for me

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ArthurKotb — Sun, 04 May 2025 22:47:51 GMT

This has been difficult to figure out but I think I understand it. Using My Files/Internal Storage, under DCIM, I have created several sub albums and there are some individual photos that are not in a sub album. In Samsung Gallery I see, under DCIM, the individual photos. Separately, I see the sub albums that have a photo or video in them. If an album is empty it doesn't appear. I have a sub album that has pictures and sub albums in it (sub-sub albums). The pictures appear under the sub album name and sub-sub albums also appear separately in the Gallery. I created a Group album that has 2 of the sub-sub albums in it. There are other albums, like screen shots that must be system generated and that album appears in Gallery

Using My Files/Internal Storage, under Pictures there are some photos and a sub album named Messages. I didn't create this Messages album. The pictures are under Pictures and the Messages album appears in Gallery. It seems to have pictures that appear in Google Messages.

In Gallery there are also 2 albums for WhatsApp; pictures and videos. I don't know where they are stored but the system pulls those into Gallery from somewhere.

So I think you can us My Files to create albums and sub albums under either DCIM or Pictures but you can't drill down through the structure. Any album, sub album, or sub-sub album will appear as an album. Individual pictures added to the album will appear inside that album but the sub album will not, it will be separate.

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CathrineW — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:02:26 GMT

This works perfectly, thank you so much! 💙

It's absolutely ridiculous that I have to backup to Google Photos to be able to browse my local pictures from apps, but at least my phone is usable again.

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ArthurKotb — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:43:52 GMT

I also learned (by accident) a couple of other things. When looking at the pictures you can use thumb and forefinger to zoom out or in, shrinking or expanding the number of pictures shown. When viewing an album you can swipe right on the images and the left column turns into a list of all your albums so you can change from one to another without leaving the screen. Swipe left to return to the single album view.

You can change the album cover image by opening the album, clicking the 3 dot menu on the right, album settings, Change Cover Image, select a different image, click Apply

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travelingpiggy — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:19:00 GMT

A year and a half after and it is still happening. Is there an option where I dont have to back up to Google drive? I have my own backup system and it's not with Google. Some of us don't like having to use such a terrible user interface. Why are they forcing this on us? Is this even legal?

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ArthurKotb — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:14:28 GMT

I just go into Settings, Accounts and backup, Back up data and then uncheck the boxes. I do my own manual backups to my laptop using a USB-C cable.

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ArthurKotb — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:20:12 GMT

I go here and delete the photos from Google
https://one.google.com/storage/management/drive/large?g1_landing_page=2

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SolTheWanderer — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 15:35:14 GMT

I have found a solution that finally fixed it for me! I created a new folder named "Pictures 2" (name shouldn't matter) in the android folder of the internal storage (there should also be albums with the name of obb, media and data in there) I then moved all of my albums from the DCIM and Pictures folder to Pictures to and upon clicking show more in the media picker I was finally able to view my albums again! Hope this helps cus I just tried this on a whim and it worked surprisingly enough.