Agreed! And it is part of a larger trend. Over the past several years, Samsung has quietly removed or limited a number of free features related to displaying your own photos in Art Mode on The Frame. These options are also a large part of the reason users like us paid the higher price for The Frame TV and affect anyone who uses personal images instead of paid Art Store content. They’ve significantly reduced functionality. Here's what’s been lost:
Slideshow from My Photos (2025) - What we're talking about now.
You can no longer rotate through your own uploaded photos in Art Mode unless you have a paid Art Store subscription.
Before: You could set your personal photos to rotate automatically as a slideshow.
Now: Only one image can be displayed at a time unless you subscribe.
Ability to Favorite Items in My Photos (2024)
Samsung used to let you "favorite" images from your uploaded photos to create subsets
Before: You could use the "favorites" feature to control which images showed up in a given session. For example, you could favorite all your landscapes and just display them.
Now: This option is gone. All photos appear together, with no way to organize, sort, or filter. You had two display choices - in order or random (now you can't do either since they took away the display all option)
Reduced Cropping Flexibility
The ability to crop and position your uploaded photos has become more limited in recent versions.
Before: You had more granular control over cropping, which allowed your images to better fit a range of matte and frame styles.
Now: The cropping interface is more restricted or buried, reducing how much you can adjust layout and positioning.
Loss of Multi-Image Layouts (e.g., Triptychs)
It was once possible to upload multiple photos to appear as a single matted display, like a triptych.
Before: You could create composite images or multi-part displays with frames and mattes.
Now: This functionality appears to be disabled or no longer supported for user-uploaded content.
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