Feature Suggestion

[Jason_Tapia]

I'm an absolute Samsung aficionado & absolutely love it all! But there"s one thing that I think everyone could agree on would be A-MA-ZING to have and Super helpful! A way for pictures to be saved to a Cloud type thing.... (For example, how Iphone saved fotos to iCloud) I'm paying for extra storage with OneDrive and just would rather pay that with Samsung to make it easier. So basically, I want to be able to use the native gallery app but the pictures not be stored on my phones storage (they all be saved on a cloud) But you're still able to see them when going to send turn through somewhere (for example in messages, or socials, when your selecting an image to send)

[Dan2023]

Also, you can access your images stored on your OneDrive from within the both messaging apps. The only advantages of sending a link, whether from OneDrive or Quick Share, is that the files don't get compressed.

Besides, I would suspect that most people share recent photos that are already on their phones, then from their cloud storage.

[Dan2023]

That's very true, I but the images would still be compressed if sent the way you are suggesting.

[1-SirChandlerSeattle]

I totally agree! I, too, am a SAMSUNG NUT. They do it the way I like. - Yes, native apps, including your desire for cloud service from SAMSUNG, are something I would want. 😊

[realaud]

That's what Google Photos is for.  Your photos automatically back up from the Gallery to Google Photos.  It is a true backup, not a sync.  If you delete a photo from your gallery, it remains in Google photos.  If you delete it from Google Photos, it deletes it from both Google Photos and your Gallery.  This is on by default and you have to specifically turn it off.  Samsung backup does not save photos because Google does.  Gallery only syncs with OneDrive, so if you delete a photo from either entity, it is gone - unless you moved it to a computer, flash drive, or an external drive. SD So, if you are paying for extra cloud space, I'd put my money on buying extra space from Google. Since I have an A54, I still have an SD card, and I have the option to backup (not sync) my photos to OneDrive.  This option is not available on phones without an SD card.  Samsung discontinued their cloud services a couple of years ago.  My guess is because they had a lot of abandoned accounts taking up server space.  I do not believe that with the options of OneDrive and Google available that they would bring back cloud storage (even for a fee).

[Jason_Tapia]

Actually, you can backup your photos on OneDrive tooo, it's an option up can mess around with. I've got an s24 and it let me backup to OneDrive, but it's limited storage on either OneDrive or Google Fotos without paying. And what I'm looking for is being up to clear up Internal Storage on my phone, so backing it up on a cloud and deleting it off my internal storage. For example, when you're in the messages app, be able to just select a picture (when you hit the plus sign to add a picture and just send it) as if it was still in my Gallery (but it not be in my internal storage, rather in a cloud) But having it uploaded in Google fotos & deleted off my internal storage; you have to either download the picture to be able to send it from within messages or, go into the Google photos app, select the picture you're wanting to send, look for the contact you're trying to send it to... extra steps....
Idk if I made more sense now

[realaud]

I believe which location to select for photos is a function of the particular app.  For instance, Messages (Google or Samsung) only allow you to select from the Gallery (Which makes no sense to me - Google Messages should let  you select from Google Photos, at the very least.), while FB Messenger allows you to select from Gallery or Google Photos and Instagram only lets you select the Gallery, etc.  It's crazy - IMO, one should be able to select from any photo storage location.

[Jason_Tapia]

I use Google Messages since Samsung started letting people know that it would be transitioning that to be to be the primary texting app. But as far as I know, you can't switch the default app of where to select photos from, I've looked through ANYTHING... And that's the thing, you may be able to do it in one place, but not in others... So it would just be easier to integrate something like this to make it seamless.

[realaud]

As I said, it makes absolutely no sense at all to me that Google Messages - a Google app - will not allow it's own photo service as an option from where to select photos.  Especially since photos is integrated with the Gallery.

It does seem that the restriction to Gallery may be a Samsung thing, but even that makes no sense, since they have the integration and sync with the other services.

In any case, if you go to whichever cloud storage location you use, you can select the photo and then choose share, and share to a recipient in a message. If you send it to a recipient in an existing chat, it is the same as just responding from within the app (maybe an extra 2 steps).  So, instead of tapping the "add photo" icon in the messaging app and selecting your  photo, you would open your photo app, find your photo (which you have to do anyway), then tap the share icon and select messages and then the recipient.  Do it enough times and it becomes a faster process.  You can even create a little routine for opening the photo app of your choice without leaving messages. This routine would require you to download the Routines+ module in Good Lock so you can use the button action.  While in any app where you want to share a photo, you would double tap your chosen button to open your photos app and then choose your photo and share.

[Didier3001]

If using OneDrive with the native integration with Samsing Gallery (sync) and NOT simply using OneDrive as a simple and dumb backup destination, you can already clean-up local storage and still see your OneDrive cloud-only picture in Samsung Gallery.

It all depends if you have configured OneDrive in your Samsung Gallery on your phone.

[Didier3001]

That's not entirely correct.

With OneDrive Sync, if you delete a photo from OneDrive or Samsung Gallery, the pictures move to the Recycle bin and can be restored. You don't need USB flash drive or a copy on a PC.

This is exactly what I want for a very simple use case. When I go on a trip and take dozens or hundreds of pictures and then decide to delete some to keep the best ones, I only need to do that clean-up once in Samsung Gallery and it will automatically replicate to OneDrive. Same concept applies for plenty of other pictures I don't want to backup because I don't need them all (group chat, random download on the internet...) I only want to delete the pictures ONCE and for all in the built-in Samsung gallery.

If I delete anything by mistake, I only need to go to the recycle bin.

My OneDrive is also automatically backed up locally at home on a Synology NAS which then also replicate the data to different data centers.

I have been using this for 5 years and I'm super happy with the automation, reliability and how easy it is to use.