How to deal with Immich & Google's Photos app combo?
Hi, so I'm bringing in my girlfriend to also use Immich, but there is a big problem. She has a oneplus phone, so the default photos/gallery app that is used is the Google's photos app. Problem is, that that app's albums are not actual albums on device, just some albums on cloud (or so a quick Google search about this problem tells me). So any albums she creates are not seen by the Immich app, and backing up albums is just not possible. Only album that can be selected for backup in the Immich app is the whole camera roll..
This is a huge deal breaker right now. Because right now, how we're trying to use immich is not to upload everything, but just select photos. And easy way to select is to make albums and move select photos to an album that is backed up. Worked great for me on my Samsung phone.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Sure could download some alternative gallery app on her phone that actually makes albums on device, but I'm sure you can imagine that it is far from ideal and a tough sell to say "oh yeah, manage your photos on these two separate apps in addition to taking this new Immich app into use".
This is a huge deal breaker right now. Because right now, how we're trying to use immich is not to upload everything, but just select photos. And easy way to select is to make albums and move select photos to an album that is backed up. Worked great for me on my Samsung phone.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this? Sure could download some alternative gallery app on her phone that actually makes albums on device, but I'm sure you can imagine that it is far from ideal and a tough sell to say "oh yeah, manage your photos on these two separate apps in addition to taking this new Immich app into use".
