Hello this is my first post on Lemmy, I have been disgruntled with Xiaomi’s stock gallery app and wish to switch to an alternative that will not steal my data.

    • gaaelEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Me too, been using it for a few weeks now and it works great for me. That being said, I don’t have that many photos/videos, so I don’t know how it handles large content collections.

        • any1th3r3 [he/him]English
          4•2 years ago

          Ah, that’s pretty shitty if true, do you have any examples?
          I’ve been using more of their apps recently, so I’d like to avoid being in that situation in the future :/

          • Link.wav [he/him]English
            1•2 years ago

            I’m … quite sure there were many posts about the issue on reddit, with one app in particular becoming paid and people actually losing access to some data, but either these posts have been deleted, or I’m tripping balls because I can’t locate them now.

            I’m going to err on the side of not potentially slandering a dev further and delete my comment. I hope no damage was done.

        • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
          2•2 years ago

          Ouch, will need to look out for this…

          I’m still using an older version of the app due to an update which added a button to enable the fingerprint scanner, when opening a “hidden” gallery. Older version didn’t require a button press and immediately started the fingerprint scanner 😔… no idea if this has been reverted or not

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    Pardon me if I may inquire, but how exactly does Xiaomi’s gallery fail, at being a gallery application? Morbid curiosity if you will.

  • ijeffEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Welcome to Lemmy and Beehaw! I just cross posted this over to [email protected] as well in case there are more suggestions!