How do you share a large batch of original-quality photos with family?
I've been trying to solve a problem that seems surprisingly awkward: I come back from a holiday with 100+ photos and want to share some of them with family. WhatsApp/Messenger → compression Google Photos → upload them to another cloud library Quick…
I've been trying to solve a problem that seems surprisingly awkward: I come back from a holiday with 100+ photos and want to share some of them with family. WhatsApp/Messenger → compression Google Photos → upload them to another cloud library Quick Share/AirDrop → great, but everyone needs to be nearby What I really want is: Select photos on my phone Give family a simple link/access Keep the original quality Photos don't become part of another cloud photo library Ideally, the photos stay on my phone I've been experimenting with a solution to this and I'm curious what Android users actually do today. What's your preferred way of sharing a large batch of original-quality photos with family/friends? I'm especially interested in solutions that don't require uploading the photos to a third-party cloud.
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With all your don't-want-to, put them in a room and show them your phone
It literally does everything being asked for, apart from sharing from cloud rather than phone.
Ideally, the photos stay on my phone The only kind of sharing that works this way is just passing the phone around to your family.
It has a lot of shitty privacy-invading stuff happening behind the scenes
I'm confused as to what's wrong with the Google photos sharing option?
With whatsapp you can choose to share Documents. If you select the photos / videos as Documents instead of as Pictures / Videos then they'll be shared in original quality
You can use sendanywhere app. It's free. No compression. You only have to share a six digit code with the family. No cloud library sharing. However everyone needs to have the app (luckily it's crossplatform)
If compressing a folder was invented it would be great, amazing actually. Your problem was solved in the 70s, lol. Use bluetooth, a cable from phone to phone or to a computer, any app is technically a third party cloud.
The photos can't "stay on your phone" unless you want to hand them your phone to view them. If you don't want to use third party cloud solutions, you would have to create your own cloud solution (private server). You could also save your photos on physical devices (thumb drive) and hand them to your family. We just use google photos.
Family album app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.mitene
Google photos stores them in original quality and makes albums easily shareable. Make some effort if you want to share them so bad.
If you're halfway decent with a PC, you can start your own storage server instead. Look at Immich or Nextcloud and you can make your own personal file server that's entirely yours to manage. I don't have Immich server myself (yet) but it basically creates your own private Google Photos instance. Nextcloud is closer to OneDrive as it's for more than just photos and includes an office suite and other things. And they both can create share links for others to view and download documents. You can run either one in Docker so it's relatively simple to spin up. Do a Google search or talk to an AI to help you through any problems you run into. Then look at Nginx Proxy Server if you want to share them over the Internet, it can help you get a free SSL certificate to let your servers be https. It's a bigger scope than what you're looking for, but I just thought I'd throw that out there.
I would suggest a messaging app that supports RCS. Images and videos get slaughtered when they go through SMS/MMS.
Plex, or jellyfin.
Jellyfin probably
maybe look into altersend ?
you have a problem with Google photos creating a shared library? get over it
Invite them to my house and screen share my phone's display to my TV. Another recommendation would be to print them out at CVS and mail them: https://www.cvs.com/photo/prints Not sure if you can supply the photos in person or if they need to be uploaded online
Telegram
selfhost Immich and immich public proxy. Make the latter accessible over cloudflare zerotrust. Thank me later.
If you could get over that last part and you have a Samsung phone, Samsung's integrated version of Quickshare does everything you ask for.
I make a web gallery with my SmugMug app
If you can get on the same WiFi connection, than https://localsend.org/