Android app - Photos not appearing until reboot

BiCH0 · July 11, 2025, 2:25pm

As described in this issue Android downloaded images not in gallery/fotos - #6 by tjarosik

Images do not show on the gallery app until the phone is rebooted or duplicated manually using file explorer (in this case the original picture still does not show in the gallery)

It looks like the app does not trigger an event to update the image indexing or something like that.

Im currently using Android 15 and Android Nextcloud 3.32.0

tflidd · July 20, 2025, 2:10pm

Is it this issue?

github.com/nextcloud/android

Auto Upload with "Moved to App Folder" temporarily disappear from android gallery

opened 04:26PM - 10 Jun 22 UTC

duanenewman

bug approved feature: auto upload hotspot: device storage stable-3.20 hotspot: media scanner

### Steps to reproduce 1. Setup auto upload on Camera folder with "Original Fil…e will be..." set to "moved to app folder" 2. Take a picture 3. Wait for the auto upload to run and move the picture 4. Image disappears from Gallery app 5. After a while (overnight) or after rebooting the phone the image shows up. ### Expected behaviour Auto uploaded images should still be visible to android gallery without need to reboot or wait for gallery to run media scanning process. This used to work as expected. ### Actual behaviour Auto uploaded images disappear from gallery and will not show up (even though present if viewed with file explorer tools) until some time has passed or the phone is rebooted. The photos are also not visible to other apps (Facebook, instagram, email, etc) until the reboot or regular scan happens. ### Environment data Android version: 12 Device model: SM-G988U (Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G) Stock or customized system: stock Nextcloud app version: 3.20.2 Nextcloud server version: 23.0.2 This is especially painful when I've taken a lot of pictures at an event or traveling and want to make a post to share pictures and I have to reboot to get the images available. I have found a workaround to be setting my phone to only upload while charging so it at least delays it long enough that I can use the picture, but that is not idea either. I looked for this in the issues but everything was around the feature not working. I found a post on the nextcloud help forum from 2020 that was never replied to with the exact same behavior noted: https://help.nextcloud.com/t/syncing-pictures-and-videos/100116

Mornsgrans · July 21, 2025, 3:10pm

On my device it helps to end the “Gallery”-app and run it again. Sometimes I’ll need to do it twice. After that the images downloaded in Nextcloud Android app appear in the gallery.

It seems, that the “Gallery”-app only scans at its startup for new images.

system · October 9, 2025, 2:25pm

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