Dear X Design Who thought replacing the native Android... gallery with the Google Photos media picker was a good idea? 🤦‍♂️ On Galaxy phones, I expect the app to open Samsung Gallery, not Google Photos. Now I have to: ❌ Dig through folders every time ❌ Re-select the same folder for every new attachment ❌ Spend more time finding photos than actually posting This is a massive UX downgrade. Android isn't one-size-fits-all. Respect OEM gallery apps and use the native media picker instead. Samsung Members gets this right. I've attached a video showing the difference. Agree? Repost so the X team sees this. 👇🏻show more

The latest loophole that third-party file manager apps were... using to get access to files and folders under /Android/data and /Android/obb has been patched. As part of Android 11's Scoped Storage restrictions, apps that use the Storage Access Framework (SAF) to launch the documents picker are not supposed to be able to get access to files and folders under the /Android/data or /Android/obb directories. However, third-party file managers figured out that if they set the initial directory when launching the documents picker to either /Android/data or /Android/obb, the documents picker lets the user grant the app full access to directories. This loophole was patched in Android 13, but then another loophole was discovered that got around this. Since Android 13 only blocked apps from setting /Android/data or /Android/obb as the initial directory when launching the documents picker, it was quickly discovered that you could set the initial directory to one of the subdirectories under /Android/data or /Android/obb, thus the user could grant access to individual subdirectories one-by-one. However, this latest loophole was patched with a recent Google Play System Update. The latest version of the DocumentsUI app, the Project Mainline module that comprises the documents picker, now restricts the initial location for the ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT/_TREE intent so that apps cannot request the initial location to be one of /Android/data, /Android/sandbox, /Android/obb, or one of their subdirectories. If the DocumentsUI app (AKA 'Files' app) on your device is on version 14-10492947 (version code 340916000), then this loophole is patched.show more

Have you noticed? The 'Gallery' in our Proton Drive... app on Android now loads significantly faster, making scrolling through your photos super smooth. 1/2show more

Images today, videos soon! Screen sharing and live video... streaming on the Google Gemini is coming first to Samsung Galaxy S25 and Android users.show more

1. Download Google AI Edge Gallery Access the official... Google AI Edge Gallery GitHub repo. Go to the "Releases" section, then download and install the .apk file (Android). The iOS version is coming soon. Link:show more

Claude Code found 214,856 photos and videos I permanently... deleted from my Android. Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with storage access can read them. After the iPhone post I plugged my Pixel into the MacBook and asked Claude Code to check for leftover deleted files. It immediately pointed at a folder I had never opened. DCIM/.thumbnails. Over 215,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted. Claude Code said most of them were not listed in the gallery trash or in MediaStore. Photos from 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Trash. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there. Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2024. Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible. Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup. Screenshot of my crypto seed phrase I took temporarily in 2023. Photo of my ID and credit card I took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later. Screenshots of my ex’s private stories I saved and permanently deleted in 2024. Most were compressed previews. A few dozen were close to full size. All organized by date going back to 2021. When you delete a photo on Android, the gallery removes it from your camera roll and Trash holds it for 30 days. It keeps a compressed copy in the thumbnail cache and MediaStore so your phone can show previews when you search or scroll. The system almost never cleans this folder. Files from 2022 were still sitting there. They told you it was permanently deleted. It wasn’t. I checked which apps on my phone had storage access. 27 apps. Weather apps. QR code scanners. PDF readers. A flashlight app I downloaded in 2021 that I forgot I even had. A calculator. Two of them still asked for full file access every time I opened them. Any one of them could have been reading every photo I ever deleted this entire time. Went from 27 apps to 5 in about two minutes. On iPhone the cache was harder to reach. On Android any app with storage permission can open this folder directly. Full step by step below. Takes 2 minutes. Save it so you don’t lose it and send it to anyone with an Android phone.show more

Galaxy Fam, let's make our voices heard! I've created... a post in the One UI 9 beta forum suggesting: Improve Phone/Gallery/Clock App Navigation Animations Links: US: Korea: How to like this suggestion: * Open the URL in Chrome/your web browser and log in with your Samsung account. * Like or comment. In the Korea Forum, please don't comment in English or Hindi. Use Google Translate to comment in Korean language only. Repostshow more

BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face... on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home. Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time. They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted. Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location. Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this. Google and the phone makers say Face Unlock turns everything into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this phone the raw frames were just sitting there. Some of the processes writing to that folder were from system diagnostics. Couple of old apps that still had camera permission could also get in. Turned off diagnostics, revoked camera access from everything that doesn’t need it, cleared the cache. But how many of these frames already went somewhere else, I don’t know. If you want to check yours, plug it in, make a full backup or use ADB, and ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery. Path above is where mine were.show more

I bought the Samsung Galaxy S25 for my younger... brother just 2 months ago. He actually wanted an iPhone, but I convinced him to go with Samsung because I trusted the brand more and genuinely thought the S25 would be a great choice. But for the past 20 days, this has been happening almost every day. The moment we plug in the charger, the phone starts making a warning sound and shows: “Disconnect the power cable. Be careful, as the cable plug may be hot. Charging has stopped because your phone is overheating.” And the charger isn’t some random third-party charger. I bought the original Samsung charger from a Samsung store itself - the recommended charger for the S25. That’s what makes this so frustrating. A phone that’s barely 2 months old, paired with the official Samsung charger, and we’re still getting this warning almost every day. I’m genuinely confused about what’s causing it. Could this be a software issue, a charging-port problem, or something specific to the S25? I really didn’t expect to face something like this with a new Samsung flagship. My brother wanted an iPhone, I convinced him to get the S25 because I trusted Samsung more - and now I’m honestly questioning that decision. Has anyone else with a Galaxy S25 experienced this? Samsung, what’s going on here?show more

Native Android development is now supported in Google AI... Studio so you can build high-quality Android apps with just a prompt🤖 #GoogleIOshow more

Grok is telling me that moving forward on X,... Native video-first content on X (direct X uploads) gets 10× more distribution than text, photos or linked media. Ok, so let's give it a try.show more

Same gallery. A smoother flow. With the new Laminar... Flow Engine, ColorOS 17 makes gallery loading faster and more fluid than on ColorOS 16. A small detail, but one you can feel. More to come this October. #OPPOColorOS17show more

dMeet is now live on the App Store +... Google Play. Native. Fast. Free. A next-gen video conferencing app on the decentralized real-time communication network from dTelecom - with AI voice translation, reward points, and seamless online meetings. 📱 iOS: 🤖 Android: Decentralized real-time meetings - now native, global, and in your phone. Download. Meet. Build.show more

what the f*ck is wrong with apple. i plugged... my ipad into my computer last night and claude pulled out 2,841 photos i deleted YEARS ago still sitting on the device with gps and timestamps attached the ones i cleared from Recently Deleted. the 2fa screenshots i wiped in under 60 seconds. the stuff i deleted twice to be sure. all of it. right there one prompt. 3 minutes. i did not write a single line of code i only opened claude because my ipad kept screaming "storage almost full" with 300 photos in the camera roll. claude pulled the backup tree apart and surfaced a folder nobody talks about: PhotoData/CPL/staging here is what was in it, in full resolution: -> 2,841 "deleted" photos with gps still attached -> screenshots of 2fa codes i wiped the same minute i took them -> every photo i ever sent in a disappearing message -> live photo motion clips for pictures that are supposedly gone the thing apple will never say in a keynote: when you delete a photo, ipados marks it "pending deletion" and parks it in a staging folder until icloud sync completes. if sync drops once (wifi switch, airplane mode, dead battery) the file stays there. forever this is not a theory. apple admitted this exact class of bug in may 2024 when ios 17.5 started dragging deleted photos back into galleries. they patched it in 17.5.1 and quietly blamed "a corrupted database entry". translation: the data was never gone. it was waiting i would never have found it. i did not know the folder existed. i did not know sync could fail silently. claude read the whole backup like a map and handed me 2,841 receipts in one prompt then it did step 2 without being asked. listed every app on my ipad with Full Photos access, sorted by last-used date. 14 apps. 5 i did not recognize. one from 2023. two i had already deleted the icon of but the permission was still live cut all of them in 2 minutes: -> Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos → set everything to None or Selected Photos Only -> Settings → Privacy & Security → Files and Folders → revoke anything you do not use weekly -> Photos → Albums → Recently Deleted → Select All → Delete All (this is the only tap that actually finishes it today) the exact prompt is in the article below. 10 minutes end to end if you already have a backup the question that is going to start fights in the replies: how many apps on your ipad have Full Access to Photos right now and when was the last time you looked at that list bookmark this before your next backupshow more

Samsung Wallet is getting native stablecoin support Samsung (Samsung... Mobile) announced at Galaxy Unpacked that Samsung Wallet will add native stablecoin support, with the on-stage mockup showing Circle's USDC, though no launch date, issuer, or chain has been confirmed. The wallet already reaches 75 million US Galaxy owners through last year's Coinbase integration, and the stablecoin plan landed alongside the Galaxy Card, Samsung's first US credit card with Barclays and Visa. When a phone maker this size puts stablecoins next to boarding passes and hotel keys, digital dollars stop being a crypto product and start becoming a default phone feature.show more

Let me talk about the improvements in One UI... 9.0 Beta 4. Here are the two changes I've noticed the most: 1. The Gallery animation has been fixed. The stutter when exiting the Gallery is gone. Returning from the Gallery is now smooth and fluid. 2. Gesture navigation feels more responsive. Samsung has improved the initial responsiveness of the back gesture. When swiping to return to the Home screen, the animation now feels noticeably smoother and more natural. I'm currently at Disneyland, waiting for the fireworks to begin. While I had some time to spare, I recorded two videos to show you exactly what I mean.show more

Oh yeah and Samsung now has cool features like... taking photos using gestures on the #GalaxyRing this also works for snoozing alarms. Only with a Galaxy Phone and Watch. #GalaxyUnpackedshow more

Claude Code just found 2,300 of my sister's photos... on a stranger's server The app sending them was pretending to be part of her phone… She's 19. Her Samsung was getting hot on the nightstand every night. Her 20 GB data plan was gone in 9 days She thought her phone was just old I plugged it into my laptop, turned on USB debugging and gave Claude Opus 5.5 one prompt 90 seconds later: → 214 apps installed → 209 normal → 4 old apps still pulling her location → 1 app called "System Sync" - no icon, hidden from the app drawer "System Sync" had: → accessibility access - it could read every screen she opened → access to all photos and files → mic + location + every SMS → device admin rights - so the "Uninstall" button was greyed out → 1.8 GB uploaded in the last 7 days, most of it between 1am and 5am So I asked Opus to pull the app apart It reverse engeenired the APK in 3 minutes. Inside: → every new photo copied and sent within 60 seconds → her full gallery already gone - 2,312 photos → a keylogger saving every word she typed → a screenshot every time she opened WhatsApp or her bank app → her GPS logged every 5 minutes All of it zipped and sent to 1 server, 4 times an hour 603 screenshots and 87 new photos were still in the upload queue It wasn't from the Play Store. Someone installed it by hand, 41 days ago She has no idea who We backed up the evidence, removed it, changed 14 passwords and turned on 2FA everywhere. Her phone stopped heating up the same night...show more

📢 Social Mining on X — Tip #7: Native... Media Over Clickbait Visuals boost dwell time, but X penalizes generic stock photos used as bait. The algorithm prioritizes native video and authentic screenshots that directly prove or illustrate your text.👇show more

Google is partnering with Meta to "fix" Instagram on... Android 17. Here's what that means: ✅ Videos captured and uploaded using flagship Android 17 phones will have "the same or better" video quality than iPhone ✅ Ultra HDR capture and playback ✅ Built-in video stabilisation ✅ Built-in Night mode ✅ More optimised for Android tablets It is also said that they have optimised the capture-to-upload pipeline to ensure that photos and videos remain sharp after they are posted.show more