I just migrated from an S-23 Ultra to an S-25 Ultra. I noticed an issue in Samsung Gallery on the new phone. My photos on the S-23 Ultra were all displayed by date. Looking at the S-25 Ultra, although the pictures are displayed by date also, it has apparently pulled some of the photos taken at various other times and DUPLICATED them. Example: I have some photos taken a year ago, that are also now displaying for last week, showing a Details date of Feb 7th, 2025. I'm guessing I have at least 150 like this showing up for last week alone. In other cases, I have some showing up at various other places with a date of January 1st, 1970. Not sure why this has happened? I did the migration using Samsung SmartSwitch, as I've done on many other migrations in the past. But never had these issues before. I of course could go in manually and delete all the wrong-dated extras, but I'm hoping for a simpler and faster way. The Gallery on the old S-23 Ultra is still intact, but I need to get that phone sent off by Friday for the trade-in program.
One thing I did note is that I'm dealing with two different versions of Gallery. On the S-23 it has 15.5.02.4. On the S-25 it has 15.6.00.61.
Looking at my Backups, Gallery is showing up under Samsung Cloud as synced with OneDrive on both phones. Any thoughts on how to do a Gallery-only backup on the S23 that can be restored on the S25?
I would turn off synced with one drive,go to samsung cloud and hit restore then delete that backup make sure my gallery was the way i want the back up in Sam cloud while choosing what to back up. Besides that maybe jyst turn of one drive sync on the 25 in settings(gallery) and see if it removes all the mis aligned photos if so just go to drive and sort from there
If you go into MY FILES you can RESORT all camera media into separate folders
It'll look like:
2022-12 2023-01 2023-03 2023-04 2023-05 (and so on)
To do this will make it impossible to go back into just ONE massive directory. But for me this was very important to do going forward so I knew what I was doing
To access this hidden menu go into the SETTINGS for the MY FILES app
Then go into ABOUT MY FILES. Started tapping the words at the top/middle (My Files).
It will ultimately open up the new menu called: MYFILES LAB
However just remember, these are hidden for a reason. Do not (and I mean not) do anything in the menu unless you know what you want and are doing.
Remember this will RESET how other apps will see your pictures and videos and might actually duplicate them. I hope this wasn't the reason it happened to you.
And this is the only reason why I thought it would cause duplication.
Sorry this is happening, hope you find the solution.
