Amazon Photos upsets Android users: Update is “a disaster”

Amazon has released an update to its Photos app for Android. The actually good news is not well received by users. There is talk of a “disaster” that the app is partly unusable. Negative reviews are piling up.

Amazon Photos: Android app annoys users

For a long time, the company neglected the Amazon Photos Android app. With a new update, that should be a thing of the past: New functions and a tidy design were planned. But users think nothing of that at all. The app collects extremely bad reviewssince the update is available.

Some users describe the Android app simply as a “disaster”. The new look is confusing and known functions have been removed. A user complains that he can no longer even select pictures and add them to albums. A simple function that is simply part of a dedicated photo app. Even selecting multiple photos at once causes difficulties for users.

Quite a few users are also confused when uploading. It is no longer clear which photos have already been uploaded and which are only saved locally. In addition, Amazon has apparently decided to use the previously Remove existing photo editing from the app. The app also no longer rotates when the phone is rotated.

Here’s how Amazon advertises its Photos app:

Update for Amazon Photos “a worsening improvement”

An annoyed user sums up the update in one word with “improvement”. The update just made the app unusable. There can no longer be any talk of simple operation.

Overall, Amazon Photos continues to have a good rating of 4.3 stars in Google’s Play Store. A different picture emerges when only the latest reviews be used. It’s teeming with one-star reviews (source: Amazon Photos in the Play Store).