The best source for Android OS news. Co-host on the Android Faithful podcast. Your photos and videos are sensitive files that you probably don’t want apps to access without your consent. Unfortunately ...

Following the February announcement, Android’s new cloud photo picker, which supports Google Photos and other apps, is more widely rolling out. Instead of being limited to local media, Android’s ...

Android’s Photo Picker will support local and cloud search later this year. Currently, Android’s Photo Picker only sorts your gallery via albums, which you can’t even search through. This update was ...

Google is testing several new features on the Android 16 Canary build’s new photo picker tool. It allows users to pick multiple photos at once using simple tap and drag. The pinch-to-zoom-in and ...

A Google Messages update will integrate your cloud photos and videos directly into the main media picker. This is powered by a new Android feature that lets apps embed the system’s photo picker ...

Google had introduced the Photo Picker tool with its Android 13 operating system. It would allow the user to specify which images a particular app can access. It is a great way to give limited gallery ...