S24 Ultra camera delay with lots of pictures stored

[WBT]

I've had my S24 Ultra 1TB for a few months now, and overall I am happy with it. Considering I upgraded from a venerable S9+, it's not surprising that it's far superior in every respect. 😁

I have found that I get an annoying delay in the Camera when taking pictures if I have a lot of images stored in my DCIM folder. Under normal conditions, with about 25k pictures, it all works fine. I added a bunch of older pictures (resized to smaller size) so I could have my history on the phone, and that caused the problem.

It manifests itself shortly, but not immediately, after launching the camera, be it through double-clicking the side button or tapping the Camera app directly. Once Camera comes up, I can take one picture immediately, maybe two. Then the Camera freezes and I cannot takes pictures and it is related to the number of files in DCIM. Once it unfreezes everything is fine again.

With 50k additional pictures, the delay is short but noticeable, around half a second. Adding another 50k pictures increases the freeze time to about 1 second, and going to 200k additional pictures the delay can be several seconds.

This is highly annoying as it will make you miss moments you want to capture.

So I deleted my historical catalog of pictures from DCIM and everything is smooth again. However, with a full terabyte of storage at my disposal, I would like to make use of it!

Has anybody seen this behavior too, and if so, do you have a solution?

Is it related to the "Recent"  album? All pictures accumulate there irrespective of their age, as "Recent" apparently means "recently added to the phone" rather than "recently taken." Hiding the Recent album makes no difference, and there does not appear to be any way to disable it entirely.

I would be grateful for any suggestions or ideas!

[WBT]

Thanks for letting me know... I did try this but it didn't help either unfortunately. I did discover that if I take many pictures in quick succession after a restart, the Camera app will crash. This was both with and without RAM Plus.