A new Monday is upon us, and if you're a regular SamMobile visitor, you probably already know what that means. It's time to pick a new Samsung topic to explore throughout the week, and here it is: For the next five days, we'll dive deep into the first-party Samsung Gallery app and its most prominent features. First, a short introduction is in order. What is Samsung Gallery?
At the most fundamental level, Gallery is a Samsung app pre-loaded on devices such as Galaxy phones, tablets, smartwatches, and Tizen-based products like TVs and Bespoke refrigerators. You could describe it as your personal library of visual content.
Every photo or video you capture using your phone or tablet, every screenshot you take, and every image or video-based media file you download from the internet or receive from messaging apps will end up inside the Gallery app.
You can see then how Gallery is one of the most essential apps on your mobile device. But although it is present on various Samsung products, throughout the week, we'll focus primarily on the app's mobile version. Below, you can find a more in-depth description of what you can do using Gallery on Galaxy phones and tablets.
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Gallery is one of the most feature-rich Samsung apps
The Gallery app is essential to the Galaxy phone or tablet experience, not just because it holds your collection of photos and videos captured with the Galaxy device you own but also because it's where you'll find all your downloaded images and clips, and where you can easily manage cloud backups in OneDrive.
In addition, the Gallery app lets you edit your photos and videos, change things like video resolution and formats, create stickers, and share visual content with friends or on social media.
Here are some of the Gallery app's main features, some of which we'll explore in greater detail throughout the week:
- Integration with OneDrive for cloud storage.
- Different view modes: Pictures, Albums, Videos, Favorites, Recents, Location-based, Shared albums. Each have different uses and some have exclusive features, such as the automated slideshow tool.
- A “Stories” view that automatically groups together photos based on different criteria and creates moving slideshows from your photos and videos.
- An on-the-fly cropping tool that lets you create stickers instantly by tapping and holding on people or objects from any photo.
- An automated 24-hour time-lapse mode with which you can add day-night cycles to landscape photos.
- A wide variety of editing tools for cropping, perspective, light and color balancing, adding filters, adding text stickers or drawings on top of photos, object eraser tools, resize options, and more.
- A trash can that can keep your deleted photos and videos for 30 days before they're deleted completely.
Samsung Gallery is also available for Galaxy laptops and Windows PCs through the Microsoft Store, and it enables you to view and edit photos and videos captured with your mobile device.
Even though it is distributed through the Galaxy Store as well as the Google Play Store, the Gallery app doesn't work with any Android phone or tablet. Beyond Windows PCs and Tizen OS, it's exclusive to Android devices running One UI.
Join us throughout the week, and we'll explore some of these best Samsung Gallery features in greater detail.
