Phone photo display frames
May 29, 2017 2:27 PM Subscribe
Recommendations for widgets to display photos on "pages" of an iPhone?
I recently went back to an iPhone from a Galaxy Note. The Note came with photo widgets that would display photos on any of your phone's "pages," kind of framed and taking up 1/4 or 1/2 page wherever you put them. My phone turned into a small album that cheered me up when needed. I can't find any easy widgets like this for my iPhone, just photo editors that don't conveniently display. Recommendations? Thanks!
I recently went back to an iPhone from a Galaxy Note. The Note came with photo widgets that would display photos on any of your phone's "pages," kind of framed and taking up 1/4 or 1/2 page wherever you put them. My phone turned into a small album that cheered me up when needed. I can't find any easy widgets like this for my iPhone, just photo editors that don't conveniently display. Recommendations? Thanks!
Best answer: Yeah android is better in this sense. Best you can do on an iPhone is to make the photo your background image.
posted by zippy at 6:07 PM on May 29, 2017
posted by zippy at 6:07 PM on May 29, 2017
Add your favourite photos to a photo album in the photos app. You'll have to swipe between them but its about cheering you up right, so interact and be cheered!
posted by Ness at 12:09 AM on May 30, 2017
posted by Ness at 12:09 AM on May 30, 2017
My wife does a thing with her iPhone where she has one photo as her lock screen, and a separate one for her background. Then on the first "page" she only has one folder with her most often used apps, with everything else shunted off to the second (and beyond) page. This way there is not much "in the way" of her background photo and she gets to enjoy seeing it more.
posted by Rock Steady at 5:27 AM on May 30, 2017
posted by Rock Steady at 5:27 AM on May 30, 2017
Response by poster: Thanks, folks. Mike, Ness, Rock City, that's where I'm at.
[OT, (if you'll forgive the run-on sentence) while it's fresh in my mind: the Note autocorrect drove me insane (for example constantly replacing common words I used with foreign words, often foreign proper names, and NEVER learning things like, as a cat rescuer, I never want "foster" replaced with "faster" or "cat" replaced with "car"), and the Note's camera colors were washed out whereas the iPhone errs on the side of slightly-more-vivid-than-reality (and has slo-mo, pano, etc.), but the iPhone's cam crop function (involving ratios) was utterly ridiculous while the Note's was simple and intuitive, it's annoying that one cannot place the cursor in the middle of a word that needs correcting on an iPhone, and in general the Note had some useful apps. Some of these pluses and minuses are so simple and profound that it amazes me the two companies haven't just stolen the best from each other. That's my 2-second comparison review.]
posted by Shane at 11:01 AM on May 30, 2017
[OT, (if you'll forgive the run-on sentence) while it's fresh in my mind: the Note autocorrect drove me insane (for example constantly replacing common words I used with foreign words, often foreign proper names, and NEVER learning things like, as a cat rescuer, I never want "foster" replaced with "faster" or "cat" replaced with "car"), and the Note's camera colors were washed out whereas the iPhone errs on the side of slightly-more-vivid-than-reality (and has slo-mo, pano, etc.), but the iPhone's cam crop function (involving ratios) was utterly ridiculous while the Note's was simple and intuitive, it's annoying that one cannot place the cursor in the middle of a word that needs correcting on an iPhone, and in general the Note had some useful apps. Some of these pluses and minuses are so simple and profound that it amazes me the two companies haven't just stolen the best from each other. That's my 2-second comparison review.]
posted by Shane at 11:01 AM on May 30, 2017
Addressing one of your OT questions: I'm not sure which iPhone model you have but, if you have a newish one, the keyboard transforms into a trackpad thanks to "3D touch." You can lightly press against the screen to switch to the trackpad and drag the cursor to where you need it.
posted by emelenjr at 11:26 AM on May 30, 2017
posted by emelenjr at 11:26 AM on May 30, 2017
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posted by Roger Pittman at 3:16 PM on May 29, 2017