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Phone is Moto G Stylus with Android 13. Whenever I launch the built in photos app, it now gives me a nag screen to download a version upgrade. When I click "upgrade", nothing happens. It's conceivable that I have network permission disabled for the app. I better check.

  1. Is this a familiar thing? How do I make it stop, either by installing the upgrade or by shutting off the nag screen?

  2. Is there a FOSS photo viewer that anyone recommends instead, that I can install from F-droid? I'm reasonably satisfied with the UI of the Google one. It allows sharing photos, moving them into subfolders, seeing the metadata, and some minor editing, all of which are useful. I don't care in the slightest about cloud sync or google drive so it's ok if the replacement app doesn't have those.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If you don't use the cloud sync does your phone not have a system gallery app that's sufficient?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

motorola doesnt come with its own gallery app, only google photos, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I thought the system app was google photos? I'll look in the apps screen again though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

every motorola phone ive had never had any builtin gallery app, only google photos (which i disable and install fossify gallery instead)

this is probably because motorola adds very little to stock android, and as far as i know, stock android only has google photos, sadly

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My last moto (g4) was basically stock Android but the current phone had a ton of crap that I deleted or disabled.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

well my family has moto g8 plays and some other, newer models. what android version was the g4?

and yeah, stock android does have a lot of useless stuff

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The G4 was shipped with Android 6 and there was an OTA upgrade to Android 7. It was a nice phone but it became stupidly slow with modern web bloat, and the software generally became flaky over time. The new phone is a huge improvement despite a few regressions.