Phone is Moto G Stylus with Android 13. Whenever I launch the built in photos app, it now gives me a nag screen to download a version upgrade. When I click “upgrade”, nothing happens. It’s conceivable that I have network permission disabled for the app. I better check.

  1. Is this a familiar thing? How do I make it stop, either by installing the upgrade or by shutting off the nag screen?

  2. Is there a FOSS photo viewer that anyone recommends instead, that I can install from F-droid? I’m reasonably satisfied with the UI of the Google one. It allows sharing photos, moving them into subfolders, seeing the metadata, and some minor editing, all of which are useful. I don’t care in the slightest about cloud sync or google drive so it’s ok if the replacement app doesn’t have those.

Thanks!

  • Big PEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    If you don’t use the cloud sync does your phone not have a system gallery app that’s sufficient?

    • tubaruco@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      motorola doesnt come with its own gallery app, only google photos, unfortunately

    • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      I thought the system app was google photos? I’ll look in the apps screen again though.

      • tubaruco@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        every motorola phone ive had never had any builtin gallery app, only google photos (which i disable and install fossify gallery instead)

        this is probably because motorola adds very little to stock android, and as far as i know, stock android only has google photos, sadly

        • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          My last moto (g4) was basically stock Android but the current phone had a ton of crap that I deleted or disabled.

          • tubaruco@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            9 months ago

            well my family has moto g8 plays and some other, newer models. what android version was the g4?

            and yeah, stock android does have a lot of useless stuff

            • solrize@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              1·
              9 months ago

              The G4 was shipped with Android 6 and there was an OTA upgrade to Android 7. It was a nice phone but it became stupidly slow with modern web bloat, and the software generally became flaky over time. The new phone is a huge improvement despite a few regressions.