Bit of back story, I started with Android (2010-2014) but have used iPhone since. I have an Android phone (Galaxy S10) I use for some things. My wife is an Android user since 2010 but is not very technical.
Right to my question: how do you manage your images/gallery on Android? I know that the Android OS defaults to sorting by folder. I used to use QuickPic; my current gallery of choice is Google Gallery, for its simplicity (and being free). So you have your camera pics, your saved images, images from various apps tend to be in folders for those apps.
Is that organisation good enough for you? Or do you do more?
Jumping over to the Apple side, every image, saved or taken with the camera, goes into the "Camera Roll" gallery. It's all one monolithic thing. You can create albums within it, but unless you did that from the start, it's a monolithic task. Fortunately I found an app that makes it easy. It shows me an image, I tap the album I want to put it in. After a few hours, I had it sorted. Now I have a wallpaper album, an album of pictures of my wife, an album for holidays, an album for friends, one for cars, one for food... and so on. Every week or so I go back to this app to get the unsorted ones.
Yesterday I was looking at my wife's phone, and something bothered me. It occurred to me that, she's had this phone for 3 years and has never changed the lock screen. She said she tried to do it once and couldn't figure it out, so she left it alone. (It's a Galaxy S22, if you're curious.) I had a minute, so I dived in. Found it pretty quick. Asked her what she wanted. She said there was a wallpaper from this anime I sent her once... This is when I found an issue with Android's image organisation. It was hard to navigate and completely unsorted. (Likely, partially user error, which is why I'm asking here!) I solved the problem by going to my iPhone, going into my wallpaper album, finding the wallpaper in question, sending it over to her, and then picking it as the most recent image. I got the clock set up with her favourite colour, and now she's super happy with her lock screen. It's no longer "just there," now it reflects its owner better. Win/win. (Of course, if you looked at my S10, you'd never know it was managed by an "Apple guy." Nova Prime, everything customised to specification... honestly still an awesome phone, and does a few things better than my five-years-newer 16 Pro Max.)
So, TL;DR: are you happy with the folder-based (source-based) gallery system in Android? If so, how do you make it work for you? How can a user with something like 2500 saved images best make it work for them?
It should do all that in the background when your phone is sleeping!
Case in point, the iPhone can make an AI synthesis of your voice. It's meant for people who are in danger of losing their voice. (I recently had dental work done. Let me tell you, that feature came in clutch!) You read 150 lines it gives you, it takes about 15-20 minutes, and then it builds the voice profile over about 8-12 hours depending on phone model (requires an 11 or 12 or newer) while the phone is not in use, and on the charger. This is awesome because it's doing the kind of work a phone should not be doing, as it would interfere with your operation of the phone, but it's doing it at a time when you're not using it (e.g. asleep). I did it on a 13 Pro and it took 2 nights. But now I have it, and the model transfers from phone to phone... Not trying to promote a feature (but if Google could steal one feature, this would be it because it's super useful when you need it!) but rather, the process of doing CPU/GPU intensive background tasks... when the user is asleep.
It can. There are settings which you can tweak in shots studio.
Gallery should also do that in a similar manner