Native android (AOSP) photo picker portal, really great. If you want to use a different gallery chooser, click on the right upper button.

This means apps dont need full access to your stuff.

Looking at you, Signal, Whatsapp, or all the other apps implementing internal galleries for no reason.

Scoped storage sets that an app which requests access to images, gets to only see images instead of a full file browser.

It's a safety and privacy feature. I don't think it can be disabled

New security measures. Instead of letting the app accessing your entire gallery freely, now the app can only see the one you hand picked (to upload).

It looks like the behaviour Apple recently added, you can give an app limited access to your files. So instead of just getting the file upload prompt, you get a system prompt first, that asks which files you want the app to be able to see.

The solution is probably to give that app full access to your files/photos

It's a new bottom sheet photo picker introduced by Google recently. You're probably using the generic file picker before, no way to get rid of it unfortunately.

I think they made it as an excuse to enforce scoped storage, at least for photos.

I would love it if it sorted them more sensibly, was configurable, recognized more than 50% of my photos, and didn't put a trail mix of sensitive photos (like PII) on the screen.

Nice memes you have there

Do you have a work profile set up? For example, it's a feature that Insular & Shelter take advance of.

It's faster to get to the content I more often than not. 🤷

I used to be excited about new Android versions 10 years ago, now I'm thinking what are they gonna take away next.

I've seen this pop-up before on my android phone. I think it's something to do with your app (i'm not sure from your screenshot whether that's a browser or a client app like Sync) not having permission to access your media files. You might be able to give that app media/file permissions in your phone's settings and that will stop happening.

Voyager for Lemmy? I have the same thing. I just thought it was part of Voyager. Is there something wrong with it?

Looking into a bit further, sounds like you’re SOL. This is the new behavior and you will use it for your own benefit.

Google going down the Apple route of choosing how you should use your phone.