How can you put an uploaded image in the Gallery

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I am trying to change my profile picture on whatsapp. with an uploaded image.

You only get options ot choose from

  1. taking a photo with the phones camera, or
  2. choosing from the gallery
    I have sent an image to the phone via bluetooth and can see it in the downloads folder, can one put it in the ‘Gallery’, is not actually a folder then ?

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You can either:

  • move or copy the image to the same folder that your gallery app pulls photos from (might be on your microSD card or in the DCIM folder), or

  • adjust the settings in your gallery app to also include Downloads as a folder to pull images from.

A third option that should be available for some applications, but apparently not for WhatsApp, based on what you’re saying - and I myself wouldn’t know - would be to navigate to the Downloads folder from the application you’re trying to use and select the photo.

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Thanks.

I cannot find where the Gallery pulls its photos from, how do I do that, have looked in apps/gallery and Gallery itself for a setting but cannot find that.
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My understanding is that Gallery will treat (an ordinary) directory containing images as an Album.

So the sort of thing I do is to

  • create a directory in either DCIM or Pictures (can be almost anywhere)
  • name it like images_for_this_job
  • copy into it a test-image.png

Now I expect Gallery to display “test-image” in an Album called “images_for_this_job”.

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I think by default, any Android gallery app pulls from the DCIM folder, or actually a sub-folder in DCIM. In the gallery app I’m using (Fossify Gallery), I can use the settings within the app to include or exclude folders which it searches for photos.

So, if you don’t know, just take a new picture, see if it appears in the gallery, then go to the files app and look for the photo somewhere in DCIM.

Depending on which camera app is installed, you can probably set it to store new photos on the external card if you prefer.

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Thanks Found the camera image I’d just taken inside DCIM, right at the bottom, lots of scrolling, thought I’d expect to find it at the top.

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