Selecting photos

A long press starts it; the bar at the bottom acts on every ticked photo.

Press and hold a photo, clip or PDF page to start selecting. A bar appears at the bottom with what you can do with the ticked items: tag, share, make a PDF, have them read again, or delete them.

01 · Ticking
  • A long press ticks the photo and starts the selection. From then on a tap ticks or unticks.
  • A tap or a long press works as soon as the grid has all but stopped after a scroll. A touch on a grid still moving fast only stops it.
  • Keep your finger down and drag to tick every photo you pass; start on a ticked photo and the drag unticks instead. Near the top or bottom edge the grid scrolls by itself.
  • A tap on a heading ticks its whole group, a year, a month or a day, not only the photos loaded on screen.
  • Best matches and Also similar cannot be ticked as a group: the line between them moves as more results arrive.
  • The selection ends when the last tick goes, or when you tap the count with the tick mark above the grid.

In similar photos, Select 1 of each group ticks one photo of every group for you.

02 · The bar at the bottom
Tag N

Tags and a place for all the ticked photos. See editing tags, people and words.

Share

Photos as Originals or 1024 px copies; clips and PDFs as their files. See sharing.

PDF

One PDF, one page per photo, in the order you ticked them, saved next to the first photo. See a PDF from your photos.

Re-sync N

Sends the ticked photos through Opensolr again, at a sync that starts right away, whatever the index holds about them. What Opensolr already read from the same picture comes back from its cache. Photos edited in place are noticed by the sync on their own; this is for when you want a photo read again anyway.

Del

Deletes them from every phone, from your index and from your backup, after a warning. See deleting.

Filters and your photos

Opensolr Photos is open source and MIT licensed. Questions about your Opensolr account, index or plan go to opensolr.com/contact; questions about the app itself belong on GitHub.

Opensolr Photos Documentation