Samsung Gallery app gets 'recycle bin' feature with Android Pie (One UI)

Terminal updated: November 22nd, 2018 at 15:32 UTC+01:00

Here's a slap-up new feature that Samsung has introduced to its Gallery app with Android Pie. You lot tin now trash your images instead of deleting them permanently. It's like the recycle bin on Windows or the trash department in an email service or photo storage services like Google Photos. The trash is emptied every 15 days, giving you ii weeks fourth dimension to decide whether some photos are worth keeping on your device or not.

Trashed gallery items can be restored from the Trash section, which is accessed past tapping the three-dot button in the Pictures tab of the Gallery app. Information technology'due south not attainable from any of the other tabs of the gallery (Albums, Stories, and Shared), but that is hopefully just the case for at present and will be fixed with the official Android Pie release.

How do I enable the trash in Gallery app?

The gallery will suggest yous to turn the trash option on the offset fourth dimension you try to delete a film. You lot can too enable it by going into the Gallery app's settings. In improver to being emptied every 15 days, all items in the trash are besides deleted if you turn it off from the gallery settings. So make certain you lot recover any of import files that y'all may accept deleted earlier you make up one's mind to disable the feature. Furthermore, if you use a microSD card for storing your photos, images, and videos, you will need to empty the trash manually before the card is removed and so that no one can access them on some other device.

Android Pie and One UI volition bring many more than features to the Galaxy S9 and other Samsung devices, and we volition keep bringing them to your attending equally and when nosotros discover them. Simply make sure to bookmark our One UI (Android Pie) feature focus folio to stay upward-to-engagement on all those features.

Update: As pointed out past one of our readers, the trash feature was already available on Android Oreo for images synced to Samsung Cloud. Withal, Samsung Cloud's trashed images weren't saved on the device, making it a poor solution because of the extremely limited free Samsung Cloud storage.

Source: https://www.sammobile.com/2018/11/22/one-ui-android-pie-feature-gallery-trash

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