View 'local photos' from within Immich

[JordyEGNL]

Make it possible to view local photos, that are not backed up by Immich.

Now you need to open your phones Gallery app for that.
Google Photos also has this feature under, Library > Photos on device > view all.

From here you can also enable backups for a particular folder.

Would be cool to also have this feature in Immich!

[alextran1502]

It is currently possible, however Immich will only show local photos in the album that you select to be uploaded

[jrasm91]

I'll just add that it is possible, but the way to accomplish it is not obvious. If you go to the backup screen, then album selection, you can click the picture icon in the right to view the photos in the album. I like the Google photos navigation better myself.

[pec0ra]

I often encounter the issue for the following workflow:

1. Take a screenshot
2. Find it in gallery (and sometimes edit it)
3. Share it

I generally don't want to backup screenshots since they are mostly temporary images that I want to share. I can therefore not find them in the "Albums on Device" section of immich.

Any particular reason to not show all albums instead of only the ones selected for upload? It could even be a separate section in the "Library" page.

[Pheggas]

What do you mean @JordyEGNL ? It is already possible on mobile app.

[JordyEGNL]

The Google Photos app shows way more folders, such as WhatsApp Images, WhatsApp Videos, Screenshots, Infinity and Telegram.

Btw I am talking about the Library screen and not the Backup Albums screen.

[JordyEGNL]

As you can see in the screenshots below, Google Photos shows all the folders with images in them, and Immich only shows folders within the folder Pictures and DCIM.

It is very common for me to search a picture in the Whatsapp Images folder, These are located in the app folder in /Android/media/com.whatsapp/WhatsApp/Media.

[Pheggas]

Right so Immich has lack of browsable local folders?

[JordyEGNL]

Right so Immich has lack of browsable local folders?

Yeah, it doesn't seem to search every folder with images in them

[matichewer]

@JordyEGNL Do you know anything new about this? I'm starting to use Immich and I can't uninstall my old gallery because I need it to explore the local image folders that I don't have in backup

[mmomjian]

Immich does not support this feature at this time, thanks for understanding.

[xd003]

Is there any update on this ? this is a much needed feature. One would not want to upload everything. Having to use a separate gallery app just to view local photos is quite inconvenient

[pec0ra]

Since v1.107.0 which has been released yesterday, all local photos are displayed in the timeline. Including those that are not in an directory selected to be backed up.

[pec0ra]

Sorry for the misinformation, it seems like the change has been reverted in v1.107.1. They are working on it though!

[andreigae]

Is there any news on this? It is an extremely important feature and without it I have to use another application to manage the local files. So it's very difficult to stop using the other commercial services as I don't want to have 2 or 3 apps for a basic function which is to view local photos without having to back them all up But only the folders of interest like camera etc.

[bavarianbidi]

My immich server instance was not available due to an issue (which was unrelated to immich itself). Unfortunately i was on vacation and with that AFK for more than a week to fix the server configuration in my home lab.

That circumstance brought the downside, that on my mobile phone (Android), i was not able to use immich as "default image viewer" to see the recent pictures i've taken with the camera.
I had to fix the server first to be able to see the images in immich mobile app.

This leads to two different questions:

• if a folder is configured for "auto-upload" and the images aren't uploaded yet (for different reasons: e.g. immich server is down) should immich mobile app display not uploaded images?
• will immich mobile app became an media-library app for all media (independent if images are managed to get uploaded to an immich server or not - xref: View 'local photos' from within Immich #2266 (reply in thread))