Help Photos greyed out in apps besides Photos and Files

[leadstripes]

Hi everyone,

Since a while I've been having a problem that apps besides Photos andF Files cannot seem to access photos. When I open the gallery through e.g. Instagram, I can only see the 3 or so most recent pictures, the rest are just grey.

I can go to the photo's app and chose share to send the picture to Instagram, although this is a hassle and I'd rather have everything working as it should.

I'm running Android 11 on a Nokia 8.1

 

[ocnbrze]

check your permissions for instagram and see if it has access to your photos or not.

 

[maggiem2481]

You can try to change the place of the Files and Photos app and then check whether the problem is occurring or not.

 

[leadstripes]

check your permissions for instagram and see if it has access to your photos or not.

Instagram has permission. It can usually see the 2 or 3 most recent pictures but everything after that is greyed out

 

[ocnbrze]

are the pictures on a sd card? did you do any renaming of the dcim folder? or move photos around?

 

[leadstripes]

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are the pictures on a sd card? did you do any renaming of the dcim folder? or move photos around?

It's all on internal storage (with room to spare). I can't recall renaming anything or moving anything around. When I look at the file browser the folder is still just called DCIM