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by Ajedi32 970 days ago
I find it obnoxious that Facebook doesn't use the default system file picker (which doesn't require filesystem access permissions to use).

With other apps I can easily select photos even if they aren't locally available on my device. With Facebook I need to manually download the files from Google Photos, paste them into a local device folder, and only then will they actually show up in Facebook's weird, poorly-designed photo picker UI. Not exactly the best user experience.

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Yeah, the same with Messenger. Want to send someone a photo from last year? Good luck scrolling through their clunky interface a thousand pictures back, vs just using the jump-to-month in my native gallery app.
Android problem that doesn’t exist on iOS because Apple keeps a leash on them. Walled garden is nice like that.