SoloSlides for Google Photos1.7.1 - App Store

SoloSlides for Google Photos is perfect for that old iPad you have in your kitchen or living room: it plays a full-screen slideshow of your photos on your iOS device and your TV (Smart TV or Apple TV). Photos can be played from Google Photos directly, or your Camera Roll, or from Wifibooth (separate app).

There are NO ads in this app. This app is supported by Premium, an optional one-time in-app purchase that unlocks some features (see below). Many thanks for supporting our developers! There are NO subscriptions in this app.

This app handles gigantic Google Photo libraries with millions of photos without a hitch, because it doesn't try to discover all of your photos at once.

FREE features include:
- Automatically updates when photos are added to / removed from your Google Photos library or Camera Roll
- Display your photos on your Smart TV without installing an app on your TV (TV must support DLNA / UPNP)
- Display your photos on your Apple TV
- Hide photos so the app doesn't show them anymore, without deleting or modifying the photos in any way
- Filtering by album or date range
- Automatically filter out photos of documents, receipts, etc (Google Photos only)
- Share the currently showing photo to another app

Features unlocked with one-time purchase of Premium include:
- Shuffle (random order) or newest-to-oldest (requires Premium)
- Clock (requires Premium)
- Photo creation date (requires Premium)
- Nighttime mode can be turned on to automatically show a dim black screen during what you define as "nighttime" (requires Premium)

Privacy policy: https://soloslides.app/privacy/
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Version History Minor changes requested by Google 1.7.1 03/03/2022 Loads of new features, most of which you asked for on our online community -- thanks for your feedback!
- NEW: Photos animated with a Ken Burns effect (this is turned off by default)
- NEW: Show only favorited Google Photos
- NEW: When showing the photo date, the name of the album or the date range selected will also be shown
- NEW: Setting to hide replay button after videos end
- NEW: Setting to hide loading spinner
- FIXED: if something interrupts the app such as an incoming Facetime call, the slideshow will resume when the app is back in the foreground
- FIXED: if you're using the Camera Roll (iCloud) to show photos, super short durations of 1-4 seconds are allowed
- FIXED: night-time mode works if the start time is later than the end time, and doesn't leave the photo date on the screen 1.7.0 02/10/2021 - Camera roll: added option to play photos from oldest to newest. We'd love to support this for Google Photos but Google has not added support for this to their Photo Library API yet.
- Camera roll: added option to play videos. We'd love to support videos on Google Photos, but Google has not added streaming support to their Photo Library API yet.
- Increased photo date size 1.6.0 06/10/2020 - Fixed an issue that caused crashes on older armv7 devices (with iOS 9)
- Fixed a bug that caused the filter selection to change itself back to Album after you changed it to something else
- Added URL schemes for automation: soloslides://google and soloslides://cameraroll 1.5.3 05/12/2020 Google Photos albums that someone else shared to you will now show up in the album list. Please note that you need to accept the shared album ("Join" it, in Google parlance) before the app can see it: you can do this on the Google Photos website. 1.5.2 05/10/2020 - FIXED: when coming out of night-time mode, brightness should be set back to what it was before (instead of always full brightness)
- FIXED: a crash when selecting an album
- CHANGED: setting the image timer to less than 5 minutes requires premium 1.5.1 02/18/2020 - Fixed an issue that in rare cases could cause nighttime-mode to not work properly
- Introduced Premium, an in-app purchase that unlocks certain features. If you already paid for the app (when you downloaded it from the App Store) then you get Premium for free 1.5 10/07/2019 Bugfixes 1.4.1 09/10/2019 - Fixed: if internet access went down and was then restored, the app would still show the error screen
- Fixed: in Google Photos shuffle mode, if you added a photo to your library after the slideshow was started and the photo was the first in a given calendar month, then the app would not discover it
- Improved: made it easier to hit the previous/next/play/pause buttons, for when you're reaching across to a wall-mounted iPad 1.4 07/25/2019 - NEW: nighttime mode. If you turn this on, the app will show a dim black screen during the time you define as "nighttime"
- NEW: show a photo's creation date over the photo (this setting is off by default)
- NEW: a button to hide the photo currently being shown. When you hide a photo, the app will not show it again. Photos are not deleted or modified in any way.
- IMPROVED: more settings like Shuffle and the Album that you choose are remembered across app restarts
- IMPROVED: when displaying Google Photos with Shuffle turned on, there's now much less chance you'll see a duplicate photo during the days, weeks or years while the app is still discovering the phenomenal breadth of your vast, unimaginably gigantic "I actually use the infinite part of the infinite storage" photo library. 1.3 05/29/2019 - NEW: Connect to Wifibooth to show photos of your event live! Works with wifi and bluetooth too.
- FIXED: If you chose to display Google Photos, shuffled, with a date range filter that did not include the current year, the app would still display photos from the current year. This is now fixed. 1.2 05/08/2019 - Albums are sorted, so if you have many albums you can actually find the one you want
- Fixed a crash when sharing a Google Photo if you never played any photos from your Camera Roll 1.1 04/24/2019 - Added a clock (off by default)
- Faster start when loading Google Photos with Shuffle on
- Fixed an issue that could cause small albums to not show all their photos when Shuffle is on 1.0.1 04/16/2019 1.0 04/14/2019